Home automated robots.

Optimization-Based Automated Home Video

In this paper, we present an optimization-based system that automates home video editing (AVE). This system automatically selects suitable or desirable highlight segments from a set of raw home videos and aligns them with a given piece of incidental music to create an edited video segment to a desired length based on the content of the video and incidental music. We developed an approach for ex...

Automated Analysis of Nursing Home

O ur society is increasingly aging. The US Census reports that the population over age 85 will triple from 4.5 million in 2003 to 14.2 million by 2040. The ratio of retired adults to working adults will grow over 50 percent by 2040. Five percent of Americans over 65 currently reside in nursing homes, with 20 to 50 percent of those over 85 expecting to be placed in a nursing home at some point i...

RoboCup@Home - Benchmarking Domestic Service Robots

The RoboCup@Home league has been founded in 2006 with the idea to drive research in AI and related fields towards autonomous and interactive robots that cope with real life tasks in supporting humans in everday life. The yearly competition format establishes benchmarking as a continuous process with yearly changes instead of a single challenge. We discuss the current state and future perspectiv...

Humanoids: Future Robots for Home and Factory

Humanoid robots have typically been thought of as service robots that work in a close relationship with one or more humans; however, we believe that humanoid robots can also play an important role in manufacturing, especially holonic manufacturing. In this paper, we discuss several key problems that must be solved before humanoid robots can assume useful roles in society, both at home and in th...

Automated Design of Modular Field Robots