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- research-articleSeptember 2024
A Taxonomy of Domestic Robot Failure Outcomes: Understanding the impact of failure on trustworthiness of domestic robots
- Harriet R. Cameron,
- Simon Castle-Green,
- Muhammad Chughtai,
- Liz Dowthwaite,
- Ayse Kucukyilmaz,
- Horia A. Maior,
- Victor Ngo,
- Eike Schneiders,
- Bernd C. Stahl
TAS '24: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous SystemsArticle No.: 7, Pages 1–14https://doi.org/10.1145/3686038.3686050Domestic robots are fast becoming an integrated part of daily life. In anticipation of increased uptake of robotic assistants in the home, researchers and designers must investigate what makes domestic robotic interventions trustworthy or untrustworthy ...
- research-articleAugust 2024JUST ACCEPTED
From “Made In” to Mukokuseki: Exploring the Visual Perception of National Identity in Robots
People read human characteristics into the design of social robots, a visual process with socio-cultural implications. One factor may be nationality, a complex social characteristic that is linked to ethnicity, culture, and other factors of identity that ...
- ArticleJuly 2024
Complexities of Using Large Language Model Generative AI in Health Education and Robots
Blended Learning. Intelligent Computing in EducationPages 77–89https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-4442-8_6AbstractWe describe the early stages of Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and future robotic development projects to study how and why to integrate Large Language Model (LLM) Generative AI (LLM-GAI) into educational software systems we have built ...
- research-articleJuly 2024
Determination of the most influential robot in the medical field by utilizing the bipolar complex fuzzy soft aggregation operators
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal (EXWA), Volume 251, Issue Chttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2024.123878AbstractFrom science fiction to the hospital, robots are transforming the medical field. These robots mostly look like R2D2 from Star Wars more than humanoids, yet they are having a substantial impact on the medical field. Robots in the medical field ...
- research-articleJuly 2024
Transformer-based vision-language alignment for robot navigation and question answering
AbstractThe task of robot navigation and question answering, which is also known as Embodied Question Answering (EQA), places its emphasis on empowering agents to actively explore their environments and deliver answers to user inquiries. Considering the ...
Highlights- A visual-semantic aligned transformer is designed to fuse multimodal features.
- A bottleneck transformer block is developed to assist the decision-making process.
- Two transformer-based modules are integrated into a unified EQA ...
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- research-articleJuly 2024
Language Cues for Expressing Artificial Personality: A Systematic Literature Review for Conversational Agents
CUI '24: Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Conversational User InterfacesArticle No.: 22, Pages 1–17https://doi.org/10.1145/3640794.3665559Users attribute artificial personality (AP) to conversational agents (CAs) based on perceived language respectively verbal cues. This review synthesizes studies on this topic, encompassing research not only on chat- and voicebots but also on social ...
- ArticleJune 2024
Responses to Human and Robot Errors in Human‒Robot Collaboration: An fNIRS Study
AbstractPerformance assessment in the era of human‒robot collaboration poses new challenges. Will human managers display varying responses to the success and failure of human versus robot employees? This study aims to investigate people’s responses to ...
Join Me Here if You Will: Investigating Embodiment and Politeness Behaviors When Joining Small Groups of Humans, Robots, and Virtual Characters
CHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 595, Pages 1–16https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642905Politeness and embodiment are pivotal elements in human-agent interactions. While many previous works advocate the positive role of embodiment in enhancing these interactions, it remains unclear how embodiment and politeness affect individuals joining ...
- research-articleMarch 2024
An active semi-supervised transfer learning method for robot pose error prediction and compensation
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), Volume 128, Issue Chttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2023.107476AbstractRobots are widely employed in industrial settings owing to their efficiency, flexibility, and extensive operational ranges. However, their application in high-precision scenarios is limited owing to their low absolute accuracies. Existing methods ...
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Highlights- Robot pose error prediction is defined as a transfer learning paradigm for the first time.
- Multi-stage greedy sampling is proposed for informed samples selection.
- Semi-supervised transfer learning is raised for domain knowledge ...
- research-articleFebruary 2024
Sustainable Robotic Joints 4D Printing with Variable Stiffness Using Reinforcement Learning
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (RCIM), Volume 85, Issue Chttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcim.2023.102636Highlights- Fabrication of variable stiffness joint via 4D printing.
- Simulation and ...
Nowadays, a wide range of robots are used in various fields, from car factories to assistant soft robots. In all these applications, effective control of the robot is vital to perform the tasks assigned to them. Soft robots and ...
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- ArticleOctober 2023
3D-CNNs-Based Touchless Human-Machine Interface
AbstractInteracting with machines via hand gestures is a common way for people to communicate with robots. Human utilize gestures in a regular talk to convey meaning and emotions to one another. Gesture-based interactions are utilized in a wide range of ...
- research-articleOctober 2023
Systematic review: Potential effectiveness of educational robotics for 21st century skills development in young learners
Education and Information Technologies (KLU-EAIT), Volume 29, Issue 9Pages 11135–11153https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-023-12233-2AbstractEducational Robotics (ER) is an upcoming trend in education. It has been introduced in classrooms to improve the learning environment. It provides opportunities for young learners by promoting knowledge-building activities. STEM (Science, ...
- research-articleSeptember 2023
Mind extended: relational, spatial, and performative ontologies
AbstractThe original extended mind theory propagated by Clark and Chalmers (Analysis 58:7–19, 1998) refers to the idea that our minds do not simply live within our brains or bodies but extend into the material world. In other words, the extended mind ...
- research-articleSeptember 2023
The goddess and her icon: body and mind in the era of artificial intelligence
AbstractAs the pagan classical world was subsumed into Christianity sexually hyperactive gods and goddesses transmuted into saints, their former statues that glorified the perfection of their bodies smashed into pieces and reimagined as austere two-...
- research-articleAugust 2023
How to do robots with words: a performative view of the moral status of humans and nonhumans
Ethics and Information Technology (KLU-ETIN), Volume 25, Issue 3https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-023-09719-5AbstractMoral status arguments are typically formulated as descriptive statements that tell us something about the world. But philosophy of language teaches us that language can also be used performatively: we do things with words and use words to try to ...
- research-articleAugust 2023
Safety by simulation: theorizing the future of robot regulation
AbstractMobility robots may soon be among us, triggering a need for safety regulation. Robot safety regulation, however, remains underexplored, with only a few articles analyzing what regulatory approaches could be feasible. This article offers an account ...
- research-articleAugust 2023
Solving a new bi-objective mathematical model for a hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with robots and fuzzy maintenance time
Computers and Industrial Engineering (CINE), Volume 182, Issue Chttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2023.109349Graphical abstractDisplay Omitted
Highlights- Presenting a new bi-objective mathematical model for a hybrid flow shop scheduling problem.
- Considering fuzzy maintenance time with robot selection inter and intra movements.
- Using two multi-objective decision-making approaches to ...
This paper presents a bi-objective mathematical model of a hybrid flow shop scheduling problem (HFSSP) with robots and fuzzy maintenance time. The proposed model minimizes the mean completion time of jobs and the total cost of the processes based ...
- ArticleJuly 2023
The Design of Transparency Communication for Human-Multirobot Teams
AbstractSuccessful human-machine teaming often hinges on the ability of eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) to make an agent’s reasoning transparent to human teammates. Doing so requires that the agent navigate a tradeoff between revealing its ...
- ArticleJuly 2023
Mixed Reality Applications for Manipulating Robots and Rovers: ARSIS 6.0
- Digno J. R. Teogalbo,
- David Auner,
- Natalie Ayala,
- Charles Burnell,
- Trice Dayrit,
- Gamma Gamel,
- Nick Lotspeich,
- Alex Smith,
- Steve Swanson,
- Elias Willerup,
- Brady Williamson,
- Ben Villanueva
AbstractAugmented Reality Space Informatics System (ARSIS) 6.0 is a software prototype that envisions mixed reality usage for astronauts. Designed in accordance with the 2023 NASA SUITS (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) (Spacesuit User ...