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HRI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
The advisor robot: tracing people's mental model from a robot's physical attributes
Humanoid robots offer many physical design choices such as voice frequency and head dimensions. We used hierarchical statistical mediation analysis to trace differences in peopleâ...
Aaron Powers, Sara B. Kiesler
IROS
2007
IEEE
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Stereo-based 6D object localization for grasping with humanoid robot systems
Abstract— Robust vision-based grasping is still a hard problem for humanoid robot systems. When being restricted to using the camera system built-in into the robot’s head for o...
Pedram Azad, Tamim Asfour, Rüdiger Dillmann
AUSAI
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
TalkBack: Feedback from a Miniature Robot
A prerequisite of any successful social robot is the ability to express its internal state and intention to humans in a natural way. Many researchers studied verbal and nonverbal f...
Yasser F. O. Mohammad, Toyoaki Nishida
IROS
2006
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Sound Localization for Humanoid Robots - Building Audio-Motor Maps based on the HRTF
— Being able to localize the origin of a sound is important for our capability to interact with the environment. Humans can localize a sound source in both the horizontal and ver...
Jonas Hörnstein, Manuel Lopes, José Sa...
AI50
2006
13 years 8 months ago
The iCub  Cognitive Humanoid Robot: An Open-System Research Platform for Enactive Cognition
Abstract. This paper describes a multi-disciplinary initiative to promote collaborative research in enactive artificial cognitive systems by developing the iCub : a open-systems 53...
Giulio Sandini, Giorgio Metta, David Vernon