The 2021 sales volume in the market of service robots is attractive. Expert reports from the
International Federation of Robotics confirm 27 billion USD in total market share. Moreover …

Parallel mechanisms are used increasingly often as modular subsystem units in various
robots and man-machine interfaces for their superior stiffness, payload-to-weight ratio and …

Robotic platforms that can efficiently collaborate with humans in physical tasks constitute a
major goal in robotics. However, many existing robotic platforms are either designed for …

Optimising mechanical, control and actuator design variables together as a co-design
problem enables identifying novel and better-performing robot architectures. Typically …

When an object detector is deployed in a novel setting it often experiences a drop in
performance. This paper studies how an embodied agent can automatically fine-tune a pre …

Historically, robots first found application in factories and plants. Until recently, the most
noticeable examples of robot systems directly sold to the consumer were limited to …

This article addresses the concurrency issues affecting behavior trees (BTs), a popular tool
to model the behaviors of autonomous agents in the video game and the robotics industry …

Object detection is a fundamental ability for robots interacting within an environment. While
stunningly effective, state-of-the-art deep learning methods require huge amounts of labeled …

Long-term motor deficits affect approximately two thirds of stroke survivors, reducing their
quality of life. An effective rehabilitation therapy requires intense and repetitive training …

In this paper, we propose Belief Behavior Trees (BBTs), an extension to Behavior Trees
(BTs) that allows to automatically create a policy that controls a robot in partially observable …