Haptics can be defined as the characterization and identification of objects by voluntary exploration and somatosensory feedback. It requires multimodal sensing, motor dexterity, and high levels of cognitive integration with prior experience and fundamental concepts of self versus external world. Humans have unique haptic capabilities that enable tool use. Experimental animals have much poorer ...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of perceptual – motor experience on motor development quotient of fine and gross motor skills in infants. fifteen 5-8-month-old healthy infants participated randomly in this study and were divided homogenously into two groups (experimental and control) according to their age. experimental group had 36 training sessions, each session an hou...

In this paper we present the ‘‘grounded adaptive agent’’ computational framework for studying the emergence of communication and language. This modeling framework is based on simulations of population of cognitive agents that evolve linguistic capabilities by interacting with their social and physical environment (internal and external symbol grounding). These models provide an integrative visi...

The mammalian hypoglossal canal transmits the nerve that supplies the motor innervation to the tongue. Hypoglossal canal size has previously been used to date the origin of human-like speech capabilities to at least 400,000 years ago and to assign modern human vocal abilities to Neandertals. These conclusions are based on the hypothesis that the size of the hypoglossal canal is indicative of sp...

C-legged hexapod robots offer a balanced trade-off between the robust stability of wheeled and increased-motion capabilities legged robots, therefore, are currently great interest. This article investigates impact mass, leg radius, angular velocity on energy consumption in order to develop set design guidelines that maximize robot’s performance. The kinematic model single C-leg system is obtain...

Among the children with violation of supporting-motor apparatus, largest group is comprised those cerebral palsy (CP). The lack diagnostic toolkit adequate to pedagogical tasks does not allow examine such from point view educational capabilities and socialization. aim research development scientific substantiation innovative technology examination preschool CP, aimed at differential evaluation ...

Occupational Capabilities. The occupational capabilities of the MHSS offer the greatest potential benefit to a handicapped individual. There are many blueand white-collar jobs that can be adapted for MHSSbased performance. However, this area also poses the greatest software challenges because efficient software subroutines will be needed to interface the MHSS with the occupational equipment. Th...

In this paper, we present the development of a reconfigurable hybrid unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV): U-Lion [Ang et al., 11th IEEE Int. Conf. Control Automation (ICCA), pp. 750–755]. U-Lion is a small-scale UAV that is capable of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and fixedwing Cruise modes through its unique mechanical design. Mainly built with carbon fiber and expanded polyolefin (EPO) foam, ...

State-of-the-art robots are still not properly able to learn from, adapt to, react to unexpected circumstances, and to autonomously and safely operate in uncertain environments. Researchers in developmental robotics address these issues by building artificial systems capable of acquiring motor and cognitive capabilities by interacting with their environment, inspired by human development. This ...