Publications related to Robot ethics

Neuromuscular model achieving speed control and steering with a 3D bipedal walker

Auke Ijspeert, Renaud Ronsse, Nicolas Benoît Dominique Van der Noot

Nowadays, very few humanoid robots manage to travel in our daily environments. This is mainly due to their limited locomotion capabilities, far from the human ones. Recently, we developed a bio-inspired torque-based controller recruiting virtual muscles dr ...

SPRINGER2019

What Teachers Need for Orchestrating Robotic Classrooms

Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Aditi Kothiyal, Sina Shahmoradi

Educational Robots are gaining popularity in classrooms but can increase the load on teachers compared to the use of more traditional technologies. Providing support to teachers can make teachers confident in including robots in their teaching routines. In ...

Springer, Cham2019

Robots for Learning - R4L: Inclusive Learning

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal

The Robots for Learning workshop series aims at advancing the research topics related to the use of social robots in educational contexts. The full-day workshop follows on previous events in Human-Robot Interaction conferences focusing on efforts to design ...

ACM2018

Social GAN: Socially Acceptable Trajectories with Generative Adversarial Networks

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Agrim Gupta

Understanding human motion behavior is critical for autonomous moving platforms (like self-driving cars and social robots) if they are to navigate human-centric environments. This is challenging because human motion is inherently multimodal: given a histor ...

2018

Do Children Perceive Whether a Robotic Peer is Learning or Not?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Hang Yin, Shruti Chandra, Ana Paiva

Social robots are being used to create better educational scenarios, thereby fostering children's learning. In the work presented here, we describe an autonomous social robot that was designed to enhance children's handwriting skills. Exploiting the benefi ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Adaptive Lévy Taxis for Odor Source Localization in Realistic Environmental Conditions

Alcherio Martinoli, Ali Marjovi, Faezeh Rahbar, Romain Jean-Paul Emery

Odor source localization with mobile robots has recently been subject to many research works, but remains a challenging task mainly due to the large number of environmental parameters that make it hard to describe gas concentration fields. We designed a ne ...

2017

Developing Learning Scenarios to Foster Children's Handwriting Skills with the Help of Social Robots

Pierre Dillenbourg, Shruti Chandra, Ana Paiva

Social robots are being used to create better educationalscenarios, boosting children’s motivation and engagement.The focus of the research is to explore new ways to supportchildren in acquisition of their handwriting skills with thehelp of a social robot. ...

2017

Affect of Robot’s Competencies on Children’s Perception

Pierre Dillenbourg, Hang Yin, Shruti Chandra, Ana Paiva

The focus of the research described in this paper is to explore children’s perception of a social robot’s learning abilities and behavior in an educational context. With this purpose, we conducted a long-term study with children in a school by adopting the ...

2017

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Robot ethics

Uncertainty-aware imitation learning using kernelized movement primitives

Neuromuscular model achieving speed control and steering with a 3D bipedal walker

What Teachers Need for Orchestrating Robotic Classrooms

Robots for Learning - R4L: Inclusive Learning

Learning to Control Drones in Natural Environments: A Survey

Social GAN: Socially Acceptable Trajectories with Generative Adversarial Networks

Do Children Perceive Whether a Robotic Peer is Learning or Not?

Adaptive Lévy Taxis for Odor Source Localization in Realistic Environmental Conditions

Developing Learning Scenarios to Foster Children's Handwriting Skills with the Help of Social Robots

Affect of Robot’s Competencies on Children’s Perception

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Neuromuscular model achieving speed control and steering with a 3D bipedal walker

What Teachers Need for Orchestrating Robotic Classrooms

Learning to Control Drones in Natural Environments: A Survey

Do Children Perceive Whether a Robotic Peer is Learning or Not?

Social GAN: Socially Acceptable Trajectories with Generative Adversarial Networks

Developing Learning Scenarios to Foster Children's Handwriting Skills with the Help of Social Robots

Adaptive Lévy Taxis for Odor Source Localization in Realistic Environmental Conditions

Affect of Robot’s Competencies on Children’s Perception