As robot technologies have developed rapidly, many researchers have tried to use robots to support education. Studies have shown that robots can help students develop problem-solv...
Abstract— This paper presents a methodology for the modeling and control of internal forces and moments produced during multi-contact interactions between humanoid robots and the...
— A humanoid robot should be able to keep its balance even in the presence of disturbing forces. Studies of human body reaction patterns to sudden external forces are useful to d...
Akinori Nishio, Kentaro Takahashi, Dragomir N. Nen...
— This paper studies the balance of a humanoid robot carrying a heavy object. Without knowing the mass and the position of the center of gravity of the object, the humanoid robot...
- It is important to identify how much the appearance of a humanoid robot affects human behaviors toward it. We compared participants' impressions of and behaviors toward two ...