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Hi robot [domestic robot developments]

Engineering & Technology, 2008
Microsoft founder Bill Gates likens the challenge of putting robots in every home to that faced by the PC pioneers, as they attempted to put a computer in every home. Despite the difficulties, the level of excitement and expectation reminds the author of the time during the convergence of new technology when one dreamed of the day when a computer would
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Users' preferences of robots for domestic use

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction, 2014
This study identifies the design preferences of robots for domestic use. In an online survey, participants rated 16 robot pictures on several evaluation criteria. Results show that overall anthropomorphic robots are more positively rated than either zoomorphic, caricatured or functional robots. Moreover, negative feelings towards robot (e.g.
De Graaf, Maartje M.A., Ben Allouch, Somaya   +1 more
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RoboCup@Home - Benchmarking Domestic Service Robots

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015
The RoboCup@Home league has been founded in 2006with the idea to drive research in AI and related fieldstowards autonomous and interactive robots that copewith real life tasks in supporting humans in everday life.The yearly competition format establishes benchmarkingas a continuous process with yearly changes insteadof a single ...
Wachsmuth, Sven, Holz, Dirk, Rudinac, Maja, Ruiz-del-Solar, Javier, ARRAY(0xa1f2fc8)   +4 more
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Caesar: an intelligent domestic service robot

Intelligent Service Robotics, 2012
In this paper we present Caesar, an intelligent domestic service robot. In domestic settings for service robots complex tasks have to be accomplished. Those tasks benefit from deliberation, from robust action execution and from flexible methods for human---robot interaction that account for qualitative notions used in natural language as well as human ...
Schiffer, Stefan (Dr.), Ferrein, Alexander (Prof. Dr. rer. nat.), Lakemeyer, Gerhard   +2 more
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Designing domestic robots with personality

2011
Research has shown that robots tend to induce the perception of personality through their behaviour and appearance. It has therefore been suggested that the concept of personality can be used as a guiding principle for designing the interface and interactions with robotic appliances.
Bernt Meerbeek, Martin Saerbeck
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Safety certification requirements for domestic robots

Safety Science, 2012
Domestic robotics is a growing sector with the potential for a large number of commercial applications. Robotics technologies have been successfully applied in industrial production lines, yet, for them to be successful in a dynamic household environment the need for increased reliability, robustness and other special capabilities become paramount.
Eleftheria Mitka, Antonios Gasteratos, Nikolaos Kyriakoulis, Spyridon G. Mouroutsos   +3 more
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Understanding Robot Motion in domestic settings

2019 Joint IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), 2019
This paper is a conceptual, empirical, and philosophical exploration of the ways we experience the motion of things. The paper aims to understand better how humans understand the motion of semi-autonomous things. The paper focuses on two perspectives of understanding (robot) motion: 1) through familiarity and a phenomenological approach; and 2) through
Diana Saplacan, Jo Herstad
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Service robots in the domestic environment

Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART conference on Human-robot interaction, 2006
Domestic service robots have long been a staple of science fiction and commercial visions of the future. Until recently, we have only been able to speculate about what the experience of using such a device might be. Current domestic service robots, introduced as consumer products, allow us to make this vision a reality.This paper presents ethnographic ...
Jodi Forlizzi, Carl DiSalvo
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Haptic Interface for Domestic Service Robot

Journal of Automation and Control Engineering, 2014
Domestic service robots are designed for human environment. Therefore, the robot should be controlled by means of natural interactions rather than the common controllers used in laboratory setting (e.g. keyboard or joypad). In this paper, a feature for controlling a domestic service robot through physical interaction is presented. The feature showcases
Rhama Dwiputra, Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar
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Hydrogen silences the domestic robot

New Scientist, 2009
Mechanism for the noiseless inflation of artificial muscles presents opportunity to develop less intrusive robots.
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