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EPIA
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Towards a Spatial Model for Humanoid Social Robots
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...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
157views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
From pixels to objects: Enabling a spatial model for humanoid social robots
— This work adds the concept of object to an existent low-level attention system of the humanoid robot iCub. The objects are defined as clusters of SIFT visual features. When th...
Dario Figueira, Manuel Lopes, Rodrigo M. M. Ventur...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
169views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Task-level imitation learning using variance-based movement optimization
— Recent advances in the field of humanoid robotics increase the complexity of the tasks that such robots can perform. This makes it increasingly difficult and inconvenient to ...
Manuel Mühlig, Michael Gienger, Sven Hellbach...
EXPERT
2000
182views more  EXPERT 2000»
13 years 4 months ago
Humanoid Robots: A New Kind of Tool
In 1993 our group at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory began a humanoid robotics project aimed at constructing a robot for use in exploring theories of human intelligence...
Bryan Adams, Cynthia Breazeal, Rodney A. Brooks, B...
AAAI
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Task Space Behavior Learning for Humanoid Robots using Gaussian Mixture Models
In this paper a system was developed for robot behavior acquisition using kinesthetic demonstrations. It enables a humanoid robot to imitate constrained reaching gestures directed...
Kaushik Subramanian