Gaming Humanoids for Facilitating Social Interaction among People

As social robotic research advances, robots are improving their abilities in Human-Robot Interaction and, therefore, becoming more human-friendly. While robots are beginning to interact more naturally with humans, new applications and possible uses of ...

This paper deals with whole-body motion planning and dynamic control for humanoid from two aspects: locomotion including manipulation and reaching. In the first part, we address a problem of simultaneous locomotion and manipulation planning that ...

We, humans, anthropomorphize targets of communication. In this sense, humanoids or androids can have ideal interface for humans. This paper focuses on two new fundamental issues in the human interface studies. There are two relationships between robots ...