Our group builds robots to operate in natural, social environments. The challenge of interacting with humans constrains how our robots appear physically, how they move, how they perceive the world, and how their behaviors are organized.This article describes an integrated visual-motor system we have constructed that negotiates between the physical constraints of the robot, the perceptual needs of the robot's behavioral and motivational systems, and the social implications of motor acts.
AbstractOur group builds robots to operate in natural, social environments. 1 The challenge of interacting with humans constrains how our robots appear physically, how they move, how they perceive the world, and how their behaviors are organized. This article describes an integrated visual-motor system we have constructed that negotiates between the physical constraints of the robot, the perceptual needs of the robot's behavioral and motivational systems, and the social implications of motor acts.
Abstract. Humanoid robots are more suited to being generalists rather than specialists. Hence when designing a speech interface, we need to retain that generality. But speech recognition is most successful in strongly circumscribed domains. We examine whether some useful properties of infantdirected speech can be evoked by a robot, and how the robot's vocabulary can be adapted. (need 200 words)
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