In order to be able to understand a conversation in interaction, a robot, has to first understand the language used by his interlocutor. A central aspect of language learning is adaptability. Individuals can learn new words and new grammatical structures. We have developed learning methods that allow the humanoid robot iCub to robot can learn new lexical items by interaction with the human and ...

Gaze cueing is a fundamental part of social interactions, and broadly studied using Posner task based gaze paradigms. While studies human stimuli consistently yield effect, results from robotic are inconsistent. Typically, these use virtual agents or pictures robots. As previous research has pointed to the significance physical presence in human-robot interaction, it importance understand its y...

Blinking and eye movement are one of the most important abilities that most people have, even people with spinal cord problem. By using this ability these people could handle some of their activities such as moving their wheelchair without the help of others. One of the most important fields in Human-Robot Interaction is the development of artificial limbs working with brain signals. The purpos...

This paper presents several novel interactive human-robot systems which were recently developed at IPK. These systems were designed for direct physical interaction between humans and robots. The principal structures and functions of the following robotic systems are briefly presented: ROBOPED, an advanced parallel robot for orthopedic diagnostics and rehabilitation, STRING-MAN, a wire robot for...

While traditional robotics provides solutions to many problems involving human-robot interaction, there is one large and critical area in which traditional robotics has fallen short: the combination of affordable and portable robotic systems with sufficient performance is currently an unsolved problem in robotics [1]. Most robots that physically interact with humans are heavy and expensive, sev...

In human–robot collaborative assembly tasks, it is necessary to properly balance skills maximize productivity. Human operators can contribute with their abilities in dexterous manipulation, reasoning and problem solving, but a bounded workload (cognitive, physical, timing) should be assigned for the task. Collaborative robots provide accurate, quick precise physical work skills, they have const...

A sensory apparatus to monitor pressure distribution on the physical human-robot interface of lower-limb exoskeletons is presented. We propose a distributed measure of the interaction pressure over the whole contact area between the user and the machine as an alternative measurement method of human-robot interaction. To obtain this measure, an array of newly-developed soft silicone pressure sen...

One of the principal functions of human language is to allow people to coordinate joint action. This includes the description of events, requests for action, and their organization in time. A crucial component of language acquisition is learning the grammatical structures that allow the expression of such complex meaning related to physical events. The current research investigates the learning...