—This paper reports the challenges of developing multiple social robots that operate in a shopping mall. We developed a networked robot system that coordinates multiple social ro...
Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Dylan F. Glas, Sa...
The development and expression of many higher level cognitive functions, such as imitation, spatial perception, and tool-use relies on a multi-modal representation of the body kno...
Domestic service robots have long been a staple of science fiction and commercial visions of the future. Until recently, we have only been able to speculate about what the experie...
In this paper, we study aggregation in a swarm of simple robots, called s-bots, having the capability to self-organize and selfassemble to form a robotic system, called a swarm-bot...
In factory automation (FA) industry, it is essential for the working environment using industrial robots to be provided with measures that assure operator's safety and good us...