In the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory (IRL) at Vanderbilt University we seek to develop service robots with a high level of social intelligence and interactivity. In order to ach...
Mitchell Wilkes, W. Anthony Alford, Robert T. Pack...
This paper advocates the application of multi-agent techniques in the realisation of social robotic behaviour. We present the Social Robot Architecture, which integrates the key e...
Gregory M. P. O'Hare, Brian R. Duffy, Rem W. Colli...
This paper presents an approach to endow a humanoid robot with the capability of learning new objects and recognizing them in an unstructured environment. New objects are learnt, w...
Dario Figueira, Manuel Lopes, Rodrigo M. M. Ventur...
This paper presents a motivational system for an autonomous robot which is designed to regulate human-robot interaction. The mode of social interaction is that of a caretaker-infa...
A long-standing question within the robotics community is about the degree of human-likeness robots ought to have when interacting with humans. We explore an unexamined aspect of ...
Laurel D. Riek, Tal-Chen Rabinowitch, Bhismadev Ch...