Robot projects are often evolutionary dead ends, with the software and hardware they produce disappearing without trace afterwards. Common causes include dependencies on uncommon ...
Paul M. Fitzpatrick, Giorgio Metta, Lorenzo Natale
— We present a framework for the programming of manipulation behavior by means of an intrinsic reward function that encourages the building of deep control knowledge. We show how...
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...
Personal robots for human entertainment form a new class of computer-based entertainment that is beginning to become commercially and computationally practical. We expect a princi...
— This paper proposes a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based approach to generate human-like movements for humanoid robots. Given human motion capture data for a class of movements, p...