Parents need to know that The Wild Robot is the beautifully animated, heartwarming adaptation of Peter Brown's award-winning middle grade book. Part adventure story, part adoptive/found family drama, ...
Abstract: This paper proposes a human approaching robot navigation framework that enables a mobile service robot to (i) estimate a socially optimal approaching pose, and (ii) navigate safely and ...
China has been teaching humanoid robots in its country’s decision-making rooms for years. Now they have been taken to a much more practical, albeit dystopian, location: their borders. The company ...
Abstract: Learning from demonstration (LfD) can be used to increase the behavioural repertoire of a robot, but most demonstration-based learning techniques do not enable a robot to acquire knowledge ...
Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but what we use them for partly depends on answers to very human questions: Do we trust them? Do we like them? According to one prediction, the mass-adoption ...
The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet. By Meaghan Tobin and Xinyun Wu Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan Robots made by Chinese ...