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ICRA
2008
IEEE
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The influence of DC electric drives on sizing quadruped robots
— In legged systems design an important question applies to: "What can be inferred from the performance of a legged robot of a similarly configured system, but scaled to a s...
Panagiotis Chatzakos, Evangelos Papadopoulos
HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Encouraging physical therapy compliance with a hands-Off mobile robot
This paper presents results toward our ongoing research program into hands-off assistive human-robot interaction [6]. Our work has focused on applications of socially assistive r...
Rachel Gockley, Maja J. Mataric
IWC
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Robot ethics? Not yet: A reflection on Whitby's "Sometimes it's hard to be a robot"
Science fiction stories seductively portray robots as human. In present reality (early 21st century) robots are machines, even though they can do many things far better than human...
Harold W. Thimbleby
SYNTHESE
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
What ought probably means, and why you can't detach it
: Some intuitive normative principles raise vexing „detaching problems‟ by their failure to license modus ponens. I examine three such principles (a self-reliance principle and...
Stephen Finlay
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Dogged Learning for Robots
— Ubiquitous robots need the ability to adapt their behaviour to the changing situations and demands they will encounter during their lifetimes. In particular, non-technical user...
Daniel H. Grollman, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins