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Sim-to-Real: Learning Agile Locomotion For Quadruped Robots [PDF]

open access: yesRobotics: Science and Systems, 2018
Designing agile locomotion for quadruped robots often requires extensive expertise and tedious manual tuning. In this paper, we present a system to automate this process by leveraging deep reinforcement learning techniques. Our system can learn quadruped
Jie Tan   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Two-Path Spatial-Temporal Feature Fusion and View Embedding for Gait Recognition

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2023
Gait recognition is a distinctive biometric technique that can identify pedestrians by their walking patterns from considerable distances. A critical challenge in gait recognition lies in effectively acquiring discriminative spatial-temporal ...
Diyuan Guan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Survey of Robots in Healthcare

open access: yesTechnologies, 2021
In recent years, with the current advancements in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), robots have the potential to support the field of healthcare.
Maria Kyrarini   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Wearable Soft Knee Exoskeleton Using Vacuum-Actuated Rotary Actuator

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
This study introduces a wearable soft knee exoskeleton that aids active knee motions during walking. It is mainly driven by vacuum-actuated rotary actuators. In this paper, the overall design of the exoskeleton is introduced.
Liancun Zhang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ionic shape-morphing microrobotic end-effectors for environmentally adaptive targeting, releasing, and sampling

open access: yesNature Communications, 2021
Making environmentally responsive materials often requires the use of multi-material devices. Here, the authors report on the use of electric field patterning of alginate hydrogels to make environmentally responsive actuators and demonstrate a range of ...
Zhiqiang Zheng   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Design and Demonstration of a Flying-Squirrel-Inspired Jumping Robot with Two Modes

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2021
The jumping–gliding robot is a kind of locomotion platform with the capabilities to jump on the ground and glide through the air. The jumping of this robot has to juggle the requirements of initial velocity and posture for entry to gliding and ...
Fei Zhao   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Aerodynamic Characteristics and Pitching Adjusting Mechanism of the Flying Squirrel With Deployed Patagium

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2019
The flying squirrel has a balanced amphibious ability on land and air, especially the ability to glide using their patagium, which makes it an excellent biomimetic object in the design and development of multimodal locomotion robots.
Fei Zhao   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Brave new world: service robots in the frontline

open access: yesJournal of Service Management, 2018
Purpose The service sector is at an inflection point with regard to productivity gains and service industrialization similar to the industrial revolution in manufacturing that started in the eighteenth century.
Jochen Wirtz   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

FaceBots: Steps Towards Enhanced Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction by Utilizing and Publishing Online Social Information

open access: yesPaladyn, 2010
The overarching goal of the FaceBots project is to support the achievement of sustainable long-term human-robot relationships through the creation of robots with face recognition and natural language capabilities, which exploit and publish online ...
Mavridis Nikolaos   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Service robots, customers and service employees: what can we learn from the academic literature and where are the gaps?

open access: yesJournal of service theory and practice, 2020
PurposeRobots are predicted to have a profound impact on the service sector. The emergence of robots has attracted increasing interest from business scholars and practitioners alike.
V. Lu   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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