This paper reports on research on developing the ability for robots to engage with humans in a collaborative conversation for hosting activities. It defines the engagement process in collaborative conversation and reports on our progress in creating a robot to perform hosting activities. The paper then presents the analysis of a study of humanhuman ”look tracking” and discusses rules that will ...

In this paper we present a robot supervision system designed to be able to execute collaborative tasks with humans in a flexible and robust way. Our system is designed to take into account the different preferences of the human partners, providing three operation modalities to interact with them. The robot is able to assume a leader role, planning and monitoring the execution of the task for it...

We aim to build robots that go beyond command-andresponse and can engage in fluent collaborative behavior with their human counterparts. This paper discusses one aspect of collaboration fluency: expectation management — predicting what a human collaborator will do next and how to act on that prediction. We propose a formal time-based collaborative framework that can be used to evaluate this and...

Abstract Disassembly is the first operation in remanufacture, repair and recycling of products that have reached end their service life. Both productivity flexibility should be considered when using robots to carry out disassembly due complexities associated with returned for remanufacturing. Human-robot collaboration a flexible semi-automated approach mitigate against effects uncertainties fre...

This study explores the rapidly expanding Collaborative Robot market and the recent literature in social robotics. An attempt is made to interpret both resources to define macro-parameter trends that could be useful guidelines for robot designing. The market shows a trend towards anthropomorphism in collaborative robot design, though some studies suggest that functionality of robots (not social...