Newly emerging robotics applications for domestic or entertainment purposes are slowly introducing autonomous robots into society at large. A critical capability of such robots is their ability to interact with humans, and in particular, untrained users. In this paper we explore the hypothesis that people will intuitively interact with robots in a natural social manner provided the robot can pe...

To help people with impairment of lower extremity movement regain the ability to stand and walk, enhance limb function, this study proposes an anthropomorphic design electrically driven, lower-limb exoskeleton rehabilitation robot. The angular range robot’s motion was determined according characteristics targeted joints; robot given active–passive 12 degrees freedom. multi-degree-of-freedom hip...

The paper deals with the proposed concept of a biped robot vertical stabilization robot’s base and minimization its sideways oscillations. This uses 6 actuators, which gives good preconditions for energy balance compared to purely articulated bipedal robots. In addition, used linear actuator is self-locking, so no additional required braking or keep it in stable position. direct inverse kinemat...

AI and robotics tackled the problem of building autonomous creatures (human-like sometimes) from many different directions. In spite of this, our systems are still primitive, little adaptive and prone to failure. We present a possible alternative to the construction of embodied artificial systems where the process of development is explicitly considered. This is in contrast with the common prac...

This paper describes the recent development of optical torque sensor in order to replace expensive strain gauge sensor attached at the tip of the anthropomorphic robot arm and realize local impedance control in each joint. Different shapes of mechanical structure of sensor as well as optical measurement approaches are given. The results of calculation of stress and tangential displacement using...

With the accelerated development of robot technologies, control becomes one of the central themes of research. In traditional approaches, the controller, by its internal functionality, finds appropriate actions on the basis of specific objectives for the task at hand. While very successful in many applications, self-organized control schemes seem to be favored in large complex systems with unkn...

Can you imagine a useful task you would like a social robot to perform for you? This paper presents an internet survey where participants were asked this question to identify applications for social robots. The applications mentioned by the participants are based on the appearance of four social robots (AIBO, iCat, BIRON, and BARTHOC) and the information they received about their basic capabili...