Technological evolution in the field of robotics is emerging with major breakthroughs in recent years. This was especially fostered by revolutionary new software applications leading to humanoid robots. Humanoids are being envisioned for manufacturing ...

To address the need for interoperable user representations (avatars) cross-platform exchange format for immersive realities, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC29/WG03 MPEG Systems has standardized a Scene Description framework in ISO/IEC 23090-14 [ISO/IEC 2023]. It ...

This demo is the result of a two-day evaluation of a humanoid robot in a Danish citizens service centre. Due to COVID-19, the goal was to reduce the number of personal contacts between staff and visitors in the centre using verbal interaction with the ...

Deep learning has dramatically improved the performance of speech recognition and image recognition. However, this does not mean that human intelligence has been reproduced. Nevertheless, it is expected that research and development into robots with ...

This paper presents a subjective evaluation of the emotions of a wheeled mobile humanoid robot expressing emotions during movement by replicating human gait-induced upper body motion. For this purpose, we proposed the robot equipped with a vertical ...

Recent developments in robotics are potentially changing the nature of service, and research in human-robot interaction has previously shown that humanoid robots could possibly work in public spaces. We conducted an ethnographic study with the humanoid ...

Human partners are very effective at coordinating in space and time. Such ability is particular remarkable considering that visual perception of space is a complex inferential process, which is affected by individual prior experience (e.g. the history ...

This article presents a control algorithm framework with which a bipedal robot can perform a variety of gaits by only modifying a small set of control parameters. The controller drives a number of variables, called non-emergent variables, to their desired ...

Firefly Algorithm (FA) is a recent and promising swarm intelligence algorithm. It is inspired by the modelling of brightness and attractiveness manifested by fireflies. Like other population-based algorithms, it presents the drawbacks of high ...

This study presents a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) based remotepresence system for humanoid NAO robot. The system would beuseful for partially or fully paralyzed patients to interact with peo-ple and live active social life. A P300 based BCI is used ...

The Sensing, Computing, Interactive Platform for Research Robotics (SCIPRR), is a humanoid, head-shaped sensor package designed to balance both sensing and interaction needs within HRI. Designed to maximize reconfigurability and modularity, SCIPRR can ...

Several Wizard-of-Oz techniques have been developed to make robots appear autonomous and more social in human-robot interaction. Many of the existing solutions use control interfaces that introduce significant time delays and hamper the robot operator's ...

Advances in technology has provided additional benefits to medical treatment. The use of humanoids has been proposed in rehabilitative treatment of children with brain impairment due to autistic-spectrum disorder. However, ethical questions have been ...

Assistive technologies in the form of humanoids have gained mileage in the area of rehabilitation, in particular, for children with various mental disabilities such as autism. The extent of the use of humanoids in augmenting these children are numerous ...

In the study of theology relevant to contemporary advances in science and technology, the underpinnings with regards to the religious and spiritual outcomes have to be considered. In the case of humanoids for spiritual augmentation of children with ...

In this study, we used a humanoid robot as a telepresence robot and compared with the basic telepresence robot which can only rotate the display in order to reveal the effect of embodiment. We also investigated the effect caused by changing the body ...

A good body of work in HRI has investigated how to design humanoids to effectively serve users' needs. This user centered approach has proved fruitful, but there exists relatively little work examining the intent and values of the roboticists ...

This study proposes a novel approach for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) called "Gaming Humanoids" using multiple humanoid robots in a video gaming environment. In this scenario, the robots play a typical tennis video game autonomously with humans. By ...

Empathy plays an important role in the interaction between humans and robots. The contagious effect of yawning is moderated by the degree of social closeness and empathy. We propose to analyse the contagion of yawns as an indicator for empathy. We ...

Human interaction is based, among other factors, on non verbal and implicit communication. By observing the action of someone else we can automatically infer several non obvious details of what's happening, as the goal of the agent, his mood and even ...