Sprout: Designing Expressivity for Robots Using Fiber-Embedded Actuator
In this paper, we explore how soft robotics techniques can help create a new form of robot expression. We present Sprout, a soft expressive robot that conveys its internal states by changing its body shape. …
March 31, 2024
Lively: Enabling Multimodal, Lifelike, and Extensible Real-time Robot Motion
Robots designed to interact with people in collaborative or social scenarios must move in ways that are consistent with the robot’s task and communication goals. However, combining these goals in a naïve manner can result …
March 2, 2023
The virtual and the physical: two frames of mind
Virtual and physical embodiments of interactive artificial agents utilize similar core technologies for perception, planning, and interaction and engage with people in similar ways. Thus, designers have typically considered these embodiments to be broadly interchangeable, …
February 9, 2021
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Collaborative robots promise to transform work across many industries and promote human-robot teaming as a novel paradigm. However, realizing this promise requires the understanding of how existing tasks, developed for and performed by humans, can …
February 4, 2021