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Service robots are a category of robots designed to help people improving their quality of life. REEM is a humanoid service robot able to provide useful applications in public spaces and to assist people in domestic environments. REEM is the result of several years of research in real scenarios. Its main functionalities are autonomous navigation, person detection and recognition, speech synthesis and recognition, object recognition, object grasping and manipulation. In this paper we present these applications and discuss how they are used to deploy REEM in human environments.
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Marchionni, L., Pages, J., Adell, J., Capriles, J.R., Tomé, H. (2013). REEM Service Robot: How May I Help You?. In: Ferrández Vicente, J.M., Álvarez Sánchez, J.R., de la Paz López, F., Toledo Moreo, F.J. (eds) Natural and Artificial Models in Computation and Biology. IWINAC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7930. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38637-4_13
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