Robot Companions for Citizens

Robot Companions for Citizens

Robot Companions for Citizens aolo Dario a,∗, Paul F.M.J. Verschure b, Tony Prescott c, Gordon Cheng d, Giulio Sandini e , Roberto Cingolani f, Rüdiger Dillmann g, Dario Floreano h, Christophe Leroux i, Sheila MacNeil l, Pieter Roelfsema m, Xenophon Verykios n, Antonio Bicchi o, Chris Melhuish p, Alin Albu-Schäffer q a The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, viale Rinaldo Piaggio...

Robot Companions: Technology for Humans

Creation of devices and mechanisms which help people has a long history. Their inventors always targeted practical goals such as irrigation, harvesting, devices for construction sites, measurement, and, last but not least, military tasks for different mechanical and later mechatronic systems. Development of such assisting mechanisms counts back to Greek engineering, came through Middle Ages and...

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Modeling Motivational States in Adaptive Robot Companions

Motivation impacts people’s lives in a powerful way and is at the heart of a plethora of day-to-day activities and achievement settings, from success at the workplace to learning and acquiring knowledge to trying to quit bad habits. The current work aims to develop an adaptive robot companion that models a user’s daily motivational state and chooses appropriate motivational strategies to keep t...

Multiplicity of the Galactic Senior Citizens: a High-resolution Search for Cool Subdwarf Companions

Cool subdwarfs are the oldest members of the low-mass stellar population. Mostly present in the galactic halo, subdwarfs are characterized by their low-metallicity. Measuring their binary fraction and comparing it to solar-metallicity stars could give key insights into the star formation process early in the Milky Way’s history. However, because of their low luminosity and relative rarity in th...