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Simulation Competitions on Domestic Robots [PDF]
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2013 This paper reports a series of simulation competitions on domestic robots. All of these five competitions were based on a simulation platform focused on evaluating high-level functions of a domestic robot, including task planning and dialogue understanding.
Jianmin Ji, Xiaoping Chen
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Considerations for designing socially assistive robots for older adults [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AISocial robots have the potential to support the health activities of older adults. However, they need to be designed for their specific needs; be accepted by and useful to them; and be integrated into their healthcare ecosystem and care network.
Samuel A. Olatunji +3 more
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Control strategies for cleaning robots in domestic applications: A comprehensive review
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2019 Service robots are built and developed for various applications to support humans as companion, caretaker, or domestic support. As the number of elderly people grows, service robots will be in increasing demand.
Anand Kumar Mishra +2 more
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How artificial intelligence can change the core of marketing theory [PDF]
Innovative Marketing, 2020 Various recently-introduced applications of artificial intelligence (AI) operate at the interface between businesses and consumers. This paper looks at whether these innovations have relevant implications for marketing theory.
Roberto Grandinetti
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Are Friendly Robots Trusted More? An Analysis of Robot Sociability and Trust
Robotics, 2023 Older individuals prefer to maintain their autonomy while maintaining social connection and engagement with their family, peers, and community. Though individuals can encounter barriers to these goals, socially assistive robots (SARs) hold the potential ...
Travis Kadylak +2 more
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More work for Roomba? Domestic robots, housework and the production of privacy
Prometheus, 2022 Housework is hard work. Keeping our homes clean, tidy and comfortable takes effort and every moment we spend on housework (that we would prefer to avoid) means we have less time to devote to our private lives.
Tom N. Coggins
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Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 To date, endowing robots with an ability to assess social appropriateness of their actions has not been possible. This has been mainly due to (i) the lack of relevant and labelled data and (ii) the lack of formulations of this as a lifelong learning ...
Jonas Tjomsland +2 more
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Say what you want, I’m not listening!
i-com, 2023 We present a conversational social robot behaviour design that draws from psychotherapy research to support individual self-reflection and wellbeing, without requiring the robot to parse or otherwise understand what the user is saying.
González Adriana Lorena +2 more
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ROAD: domestic assistant and rehabilitation robot [PDF]
Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 2011 This study introduces the concept design and analysis of a robotic system for the assistance and rehabilitation of disabled people. Based on the statistical data of the most common types of disabilities in Spain and other industrialized countries, the different tasks that the device must be able to perform have been determined. In this study, different
Isela Carrera +5 more
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The robotics market: development prerequisites, features and prospects [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the development of the robotics market in Russia and in the world. The authors note that the use of robots in various fields of activity ensures accuracy, productivity, flexibility, rationality in the use of
Digilina Olga, Teslenko Irina
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