It is critical for designers of language-capable robots to enable some degree of moral competence in those robots. This is especially critical at this point in history due to the current research climate, in which much natural language generation ...

In this study, we propose a telework "avatar work" that enables people with disabilities to engage in physical works such as customer service in order to realize an inclusive society, where we can do anything if we have free mind, even though we are ...

Can or should a robot ever engage in a financial transaction with a human? If so, how? How about an enforceable agreement? Blockchain technology has enabled the development of cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, and unlocked a plethora of other ...

We describe the implementation and evaluation of a public interactive robotic art installation in a rehabilitation hospital. The project had two goals; to provide an enjoyable and novel artistic experience for the hospital community, and to better ...

The elderly are more affected by higher environmental temperatures. If they misperceive the temperature, it can lead to a number of potentially dangerous health issues. To address this, we propose a robot that sweats to indicate the high environmental ...

The "Sorting Hat", inspired from Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling was designed as a mediator social robot for autistic children. Since they are unable to interact with peers and show their emotions, the hat plays the role of a mediator to fill the ...

The general topic of this inquiry looks at the methodology of design for new types of companions robots, in the context of a domestic setting. Personalization is essential, but most of Human Robot Interaction (HRI) research focus on adaptive behaviour ...

In the course of the past ten years, soft robotics has become a growing field of research. This video presents SONŌ, a soft robot that features real-time sound generation based on FM synthesis in accordance with its movements. The system was constructed ...

The EU-funded MuMMER project (\urlhttp://mummer-project.eu/ ) has developed a socially intelligent robot to interact with the general public in open spaces. One of the core tasks for the robot is to guide the visitors to specific locations in the mall. ...

Stand-up comedy performance is one interesting environment in which to evaluate social robot abilities; the natural format and expectations of the art form make it well suited for experimentation. We brought Jon the Robot, our autonomous robotic stand-...

Creativity is at the core of what it means to be human. It is an intrinsic ability that we all have and influences our well-being self-expression throughout life. However, a decline in creativity abilities occurs in children around the age of 7 years ...

Using Augmented Reality (AR) interfaces, motion paths and tasks for co-bots in the factory can become visible and interactive. We present Kinetic AR, a system to control and manipulate motion of an MIR100 Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) in Augmented ...

The paper presents an ongoing work that aims for real-time action recognition specifically tailored for child-centered research. To this end, we collected and annotated a dataset of 200 primary school children aged 6 to 11 years old. Each child was ...

This paper describes a work in progress that aims to design automatic engagement recognition of Robot-Mediated Therapy (RMT) tailored for children with a diverse form of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in co-occurrence with Attention Deficit ...

This paper presents the initial efforts towards developing a robotic limb repositioning system. We aim to combine programming by demonstration and end-user programming in a tele-manipulation system that includes the user in the loop. We propose an ...

In this report, we propose a framework for generating long-term human-like motion based on a deep generative model. Thanks to the network structure, the proposed method allows us generating seem- less long-term motions while the model is trained by 4 ...

In this paper, we present a social robotics framework to assist workers with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). AIDA, which stands for artificially intelligent disability assistant, will help workers with IDD through social scaffolding ...

The elderly are more affected by higher environmental temperatures. If they misperceive the temperature, it can lead to a number of potentially dangerous health issues. To address this, we propose a robot that sweats to indicate the high environmental ...

This work presents a method to identify children at risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder using behavioral data extracted from video analysis of child-robot interactions. Robots were used as a tool to elicit social engagement from the children in order to ...

The Darwin OP2 robot was used to play a cooperative game of concentration with a human. Guided calibration was used to teach the robot colors in different environments. Vision algorithms and servo movements were used to identify the elements of the ...