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Robotic painting is well-established in controlled factory environments, but there is now potential for mobile robots to do functional painting tasks around the everyday world. An obvious first target for such robots is painting a uniform single color. A s ...

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Mobile Robotic Painting of Texture

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Most policy search algorithms require thousands of training episodes to find an effective policy, which is often infeasible with a physical robot. This survey article focuses on the extreme other end of the spectrum: how can a robot adapt with only a handf ...

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Human-Human, Human-Robot and Robot-Robot Interaction While Walking: Data Analysis, Modelling and Control

Jessica Lanini

In everyday life humans perform many tasks with other partners which involve coordination, involuntary communication and mutual control adaptation, as the case of carrying objects together with another person. Humanoid robots may help with such activities ...

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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 ...

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A Framework for Cooperative Human-Aware Navigation and Coordination of Multi-Robot Systems in Social Environments

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Continual developments in robotic technology have enabled the use of robots in everyday applications in domestic, office and public spaces. Although single robot problems have been the main focus of social robotics research, applications of robots in socia ...

EPFL2018

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In this paper, we present a robotic approach to improve the teaching of handwriting using the tangible, haptic-enabled and classroom-friendly Cellulo robots. Our efforts presented here are in line with the philosophy of the Cellulo platform: we aim to crea ...

ACM2018

Achieving robotically peeled lettuce

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes

Robotic technologies are being increasingly applied to agriculture, in particular to harvesting. Some types of produce such as iceberg lettuce require additional processing after harvesting in order to satisfy the needs of the end-user or customer. Lettuce ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2018

Will robots be bodies with brains or brains with bodies?

Jamie Paik, Nicolaus Correll

Biology motivates how complex functionality results from systems of simple materials. ...

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Learning by Teaching a Robot: The Case of Handwriting

Pierre Dillenbourg, Séverin Lemaignan, Alexis David Jacq, Fernando Garcia, Deanna Hood, Ana Paiva

Robots for education are not limited to support ICT teaching, and they are indeed finding new roles in the classroom. This article reports on such a new paradigm for educative robots, that involves learning by teaching and strong social engagement to help ...

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