World’s first microscale ‘transformer’ robot

Robot ’ s first steps , Robot ’ s first

Communication is a desirable skill for robots. We describe a method of how these skills could be learned. An architecture of connectionist models is developed to allow the learning of a simple non-grammatical language. Concepts, in the form of a word and its meaning, and numerical quantities are understood separately. A physical system of two mobile autonomous robots, teacher and student, is bu...

Robot task planning and explanation in open and uncertain worlds

A long-standing goal of AI is to enable robots to plan in the face of uncertain and incomplete information, and to handle task failure intelligently. This paper shows how to achieve this. There are two central ideas. The first idea is to organize the robot’s knowledge into three layers: instance knowledge at the bottom, commonsense knowledge above that, and diagnostic knowledge on top. Knowledg...

Robot Localization A First Taste

2 Two Dimension Euclidean Space Approach 1 2.1 Some Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.2 Hardness of localization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.3 Using a visibility cell decomposition for localization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.3.1 Visibility cells and the overlay...

First Experiment in Hosting : a Pointing Robot

To participate in conversations with people, robots must not only see and talk with people but make use of the conventions of conversation and of how to be connected to their human counterparts. This paper reports on research on engagement in human-human interaction and applications to (non-mobile) robots interacting with humans in hosting activities.

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