In this work, we investigate the locomotion of a snake-like soft robot in terms its design. Therefore backbone is represented by curve plane which actuated given curvature. By adding anisotropic friction between and surface “moves” on surface. With simple model are able to predict for certain sets parameters. This allows evaluate influence design changes hence facilitate process. As an example,...

Learning from demonstration (LfD) is a practical method for transferring skill knowledge human demonstrator to robot. Several studies have shown the effectiveness of LfD in robotic grasping tasks improve success rate and accelerate development new tasks. A well-designed device can effectively represent motion transfer skills robots. In this paper, an improved gripper-like exoskeleton with data ...

As robots are getting more important and personalize, the need for design in robot industry is increasing but not very many studies are done in design field. At the first part of this paper, the importance of design in robot industry is introduced. Fields in HRI (Human Robot Interaction) need to be studied which is an interdisciplinary study. HCI (Human Computer Interaction) and CSCW (computer-...

Describing the semantics of natural language spatial expressions such as (1) ‘moving forward slowly’ and (2) ‘you’re in front of the desk’ is not a straightforward task. In this paper we describe a setting with a mobile robot where the meanings of such expressions are learned from a set of robot data and natural language descriptions made by a human commentator. We start with simple robot-cente...