In this report a number of research projects are summarized that aimed at investigating the emotional effects of android robots. In particular, those robots are focused on that have been developed and are incessantly being improved by Hiroshi Ishiguro at both the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International ...

The path-planning problem for autonomous mobile robots has been addressed by classical search techniques such as A* or, more recently, Theta* or S-Theta*. However, research usually focuses on reducing the length of the path or the processing time. The common practice in the literature is to report the run-time/length of ...

In this article, we describe technologies facilitating the set-up of automated assembly solutions which have been developed in the context of the IntellAct project (2011–2014). Tedious procedures are currently still required to establish such robot solutions. This hinders especially the automation of so called few-of-a-kind ...

Mobile autonomous robotics is a young and complex field of research. Since the world is uncertain and since robots can only gain partial information about it, probabilistic navigation algorithms became popular whenever a robot has to localize itself or surrounding objects. Furthermore, cooperative exploration and ...

Flexible, robust, precise, adaptive, compliant and safe: these are some of the qualities robots must have to interact safely and productively with humans. Yet robots are still nowadays perceived as too rigid, clumsy and not sufficiently adaptive to work efficiently in interaction with people. The AMARSi Project endeavors ...

This position paper describes ongoing work at the Universities of Liverpool, Sheffield and Surrey in the UK on developing hybrid agent architectures for controlling autonomous systems, and specifically for ensuring that agent-controlled dynamic reconfiguration is viable. The work outlined here forms part of the ...

Hyperdimensional computing combines very high-dimensional vector spaces (e.g. 10,000 dimensional) with a set of carefully designed operators to perform symbolic computations with large numerical vectors. The goal is to exploit their representational power and noise robustness for a broad range of computational tasks. ...

In this contribution, we explore real-time requirements of mobile manipulators, a class of intelligent robots, in the context of the ongoing fast-robotics ( https://de.fast-zwanzig20.de/industrie/fast-robotics/ ) project. The project aims at implementing such robots based on (edge-) cloud-services using wireless communication ...

This article presents a novel educational project aiming at the development and implementation of a professional, standardized, internationally accepted system for training and certifying teachers, school students and young people in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics. In recent years, AI and Robotics have become ...