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Articles Tagged: Robotics

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COLUMN: INIT

Readying Robots for the Home: The Evolution of Human-Robot Interaction

By Safinah Ali, Daniella DiPaola, October 2023

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DEPARTMENT: Milestones

Human-Robot Collaboration

By Deepak Mahto, October 2023

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SECTION: Features

QWriter: A Reinforcement Learning-Based Robot for Early Literacy Acquisition

Robot-assisted language learning produces comparable results to human tutors in a long-term study with elementary school children.

By Anara Sandygulova, Aida Amir, Nurziya Oralbayeva, Zhansaule Telisheva, Aida Zhanatkyzy, Aidar Shakerimov, Shamil Sarmonov, Arna Aimysheva, October 2023

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Social Robots That Promote Soft Skills in Students

Social robots are coming to classrooms, but they can do more than teach new content. They can implement validated pedagogy to promote soft skills such as curiosity, growth mindset, and collaboration.

By Goren Gordon, October 2023

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Child-Robot Interaction in Healthcare: Opportunities, Challenges, and Resolutions

Robots are increasingly permeating the healthcare system, but limited studies exist in the field of child-robot interaction in healthcare.

By Iroju Olaronke, October 2023

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Living With Robotic Companions for Better Psychological Well-Being

We live in a world where interactive devices are always around. But can these technologies become more than just useful tools for us? What if there was a social robot that could act as a helpful companion and help people improve their psychological well-being in their homes?

By Sooyeon Jeong, October 2023

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Working Together Toward ikigai: Co-Designing Robots That Can Help Us Achieve Meaning and Purpose in Life

Robots are commonly envisioned as assisting older adults in physical tasks or providing companionship. But there has been less focus on helping older adults achieve more intangible, but equally important, aspects of wellness, such as a feeling of purpose and meaning in life. Here, we share our experiences working and learning together with older adults on developing a robot that can support their achievement of ikigai---meaning or purpose in life.

By Long-Jing Hsu, Waki Kamino, Weslie Khoo, Katherine Tsui, David Crandall, Selma Šabanović, October 2023

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Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks

Boston Dynamics, famous for their robot quadruped dog "Spot," takes new inspiration from some "not-so-new" sources.

By Leland Hepler, David Robert, October 2023

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Understanding Our Robots With the Help of Human-Centered Explainable AI

Insights from the field of human factors can help us design human-centered explanations that enable effective human-robot interaction. Studying explanation techniques according to these human factors will be critical in understanding their efficacy across diverse contexts.

By Lindsay Sanneman, October 2023

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DEPARTMENT: Pointers

Robots and You

By Jeenisha Shrungare, October 2023

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SECTION: Features

Accessible Parallel Embodiment of Multiple Robotic Avatars in a Cafe

Novel technological systems enabling people to control multiple robotic avatars simultaneously could support more accessible ways to multitask. An implementation of a parallel avatar system in a cafe shows that, leveraging their existing skills, remote workers with disabilities were able to utilize the system to control up to four robots, each with a different function, to assist customers in a cafe. The parallel avatar systems expand the agency and the capabilities of disabled workers, while also delivering better experiences to customers.

By Giulia Barbareschi, Midori Kawaguchi, Hiroaki Kato, Kazuaki Takeuchi, Masato Nagahiro, Yoshifumi Shiiba, Yoshifuji Ory, Kentaro Yoshifuji, Shunichi Kasahara, Kouta Minamizawa, January 2023

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Benchmarking robots in smart cities

In order for robots to become integrated into society, we need to be able to prove that robots do their jobs reliably. Robot benchmarking competitions in smart cities offer a glimpse into our future.

By Matthew Studley, Valentina Presutti, Daniele Nardi, Sarah Carter, April 2022

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AI and essential labor

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, "essential work" became a calling card for the labor that kept the country running. But the activity of essential workers often occurs out of sight. For example, the products of waste workers are everywhere---clean floors, sanitized tables, objects made from recycled plastics---though workers themselves are often behind the scenes.

By Franchesca Spektor, Estefania Rodriguez, Samantha Shorey, Sarah Fox, January 2022

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Robot, all too human

Robot, all too human

Advanced robotics and artificial intelligence systems present a new challenge to human identity.

By Joanna J. Bryson, April 2019

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Computer scientists in action: Lining Yao, fabrication

Blooming in adversity

DEPARTMENT: Back

Blooming in adversity

By Asmaa Rabie, April 2017

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The virtual human interaction lab<br />Stanford, California

DEPARTMENT: Labz

The virtual human interaction lab
Stanford, California

By Andrea Stevenson Won, November 2015

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Did I take my meds today?

SECTION: Features

Did I take my meds today?

People tend to believe they are more aware of their own health behaviors than they really are. In this article, we present technologies that employ ubiquitous home sensing to support awareness of healthy habits.

By Matthew L. Lee, December 2014

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Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Technology Laboratory (AIART lab)

Robotics

By Randolph Chung, Lynellen D. S. Perry, April 1998

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Mars rover

By Sharon Lauback, April 1998

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RoboCup

By Hiroaki Kitano, Minoru Asada, Itsuki Noda, Hitoshi Matsubara, April 1998

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CMUnited

Robotic soccer is a challenging research domain involving multiple agents that need to collaborate in an adversarial environment to achieve specific objectives. This article describes CMUnited, the team of small robotic agents that we developed to enter the RoboCup-97 competition. We designed and built the robotic agents, devised the appropriate vision algorithm, and developed and implemented algorithms for strategic collaboration between the robots in an uncertain and dynamic environment. The robots can organize themselves in formations, hold specific roles, and pursue their goals. In game situations, they have demonstrated their collaborative behaviors on multiple occasions. The robots can also switch roles to maximize the overall performance of the team. We present an overview of the vision processing algorithm which successfully tracks multiple moving objects and predicts trajectories. The paper then focuses on the agents' behaviors ranging from low-level individual behaviors to coordinated, strategic team behaviors. CMUnited won the RoboCup-97 small-robot competition at IJCAI-97 in Nagoya, Japan.

By Manuela Veloso, Peter Stone, Kwun Han, Sorin Achim, April 1998

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