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ICAI
2010
13 years 3 months ago
A Way to Put Empathy in a Robot
A report on the experiments carried out with our robot in the Emotirob project is given in this paper, in which we show how we build emotion and personality in the robot. With chi...
Dominique Duhaut
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
"Why Can't We Be Friends?" An Empathic Game Companion for Long-Term Interaction
The ability of artificial companions (virtual agents or robots) to establish meaningful relationships with users is still limited. In humans, a key aspect of such ability is empath...
Iolanda Leite, Samuel Mascarenhas, André Pe...
IROS
2006
IEEE
152views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Integrating Active Mobile Robot Object Recognition and SLAM in Natural Environments
Abstract— Linking semantic and spatial information has become an important research area in robotics since, for robots interacting with humans and performing tasks in natural env...
Staffan Ekvall, Patric Jensfelt, Danica Kragic
ISCIS
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Unsupervised learning of affordance relations on a humanoid robot
—In this paper, we study how a humanoid robot can learn affordance relations in his environment through its own interactions in an unsupervised way. Specifically, we developed a...
Baris Akgun, Nilgun Dag, Tahir Bilal, Ilkay Atil, ...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
130views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Model adaptation with least-squares SVM for adaptive hand prosthetics
— The state-of-the-art in control of hand prosthetics is far from optimal. The main control interface is represented by surface electromyography (EMG): the activation potentials ...
Francesco Orabona, Claudio Castellini, Barbara Cap...