Abstract The design of robot motion is one the most important questions in social robotics as it underpins successful human–robot interaction. Human-inspired based on anthropomorphic models, through which human features are identified and implemented a robot, dominant robotics. article considers perceptual, communicational dimensions suggests going beyond anthropomorphising towards quest robot-...

Intelligent human robot cooperation still is a challenging field of research. At the Institute of Process Control and Robotics at the University of Karlsruhe we intend to use an anthropomorphic robot to learn how to solve a children’s jigsaw puzzle together with a human tutor. Instead of choosing a straight forward engineer’s approach, we have decided to combine a psychologist’s and a computer ...

This paper describes two preliminary experiments concerned with the construction of a robot head. The initial design and research is aimed at producing a system with two cameras and two microphones on a system capable of operating with the same degrees of freedom and reflex times as its biological counterpart. Whilst the primary goal of the project is develop an anthropomorphic system with the ...

I n this paper, we describe the hardware and control architecture o,f a novel ,four-,fingered dextrous robot hand. The benefits of the unusual arrangement 0.f the ,fingers (which resembles that an raptors and other birds) an the hand are discussed. Kinematic models f o r the .fingers and transmission system are presented. A simulation and real-time control environment has been developed ,for th...

The study presented in this paper explored the relationships between participant personality, perceived robot personality and preferences for particular robot appearances. The participants (N=77) watched 3 videos of a HRI situation in which the appearance of the robot was altered to appear more or less anthropomorphic. Participant personality was assessed using the Big Five Domain Scale, while ...

• Anthropomorphism is anchored in cognitive control processes depends on the load during observation Anthropomorphic attributions to robots are based pre-structured mental representations The goal of observers can modulate how biases anthropomorphic Humanoid might become more and present most ordinary contexts millions people worldwide. Humans reason about these artificial agents mainly through...

An autonomous mobile humanoid robot able to assist in a workshop environment and interact with human beings, must have the basic capability of learning manipulation tasks by demonstration. In this paper two aspects to reach this goal are considered. First we describe how the mechanics must be constructed to manipulate objects like humans do. Then we propose an approach to transfer human arm mov...

Human control of high degree-of-freedom robotic systems, e.g. anthropomorphic robot hands, is often difficult due to the overwhelming number of variables that need to be specified. The problem is magnified for applications to biorobotics where efforts to decode user neural activity into control signals have demonstrated success limited to 2-3 DOFs with bandwidth approximately 15 bits/sec [5]. W...

The paper focuses on control of a new anthropomorphic robot arm enabling the torque measurement in each joint to ensure safety while performing tasks of physical interaction with human and environment. A novel variable control strategy was elaborated to increase the robot functionality and to achieve human-like dynamics of interaction. The algorithm of impact control imparting reflex action abi...