Robots that use language

S Tellex, N Gopalan, H Kress-Gazit… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
This article surveys the use of natural language in robotics from a robotics point of view. To
use human language, robots must map words to aspects of the physical world, mediated by …

An overview of the distributed integrated cognition affect and reflection diarc architecture

M Scheutz, T Williams, E Krause, B Oosterveld… - Cognitive …, 2019 - Springer
DIARC has been under development for over 15 years. Different from other cognitive
architectures like SOAR or ACT-R, DIARC is an intrinsically component-based distributed …

Blame-laden moral rebukes and the morally competent robot: A Confucian ethical perspective

Q Zhu, T Williams, B Jackson, R Wen - Science and Engineering Ethics, 2020 - Springer
Empirical studies have suggested that language-capable robots have the persuasive power
to shape the shared moral norms based on how they respond to human norm violations …

Scarecrows in oz: the use of large language models in hri

T Williams, C Matuszek, R Mead… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) presents both a critical design
challenge and a remarkable opportunity for the field of Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) …

Using syntax to ground referring expressions in natural images

V Cirik, T Berg-Kirkpatrick, LP Morency - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2018 - ojs.aaai.org
We introduce GroundNet, a neural network for referring expression recognition---the task of
localizing (or grounding) in an image the object referred to by a natural language …

Transparency through explanations and justifications in human-robot task-based communications

M Scheutz, R Thielstrom, M Abrams - International Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Transparent task-based communication between human instructors and robot instructees
requires robots to be able to determine whether a human instruction can and should be …

PATI: a projection-based augmented table-top interface for robot programming

Y Gao, CM Huang - Proceedings of the 24th international conference on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
As robots begin to provide daily assistance to individuals in human environments, their end-
users, who do not necessarily have substantial technical training or backgrounds in robotics …

Power in Human-Robot Interaction

YTY Hou, EJ Cheon, MF Jung - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Power is a fundamental determinant of social life, yet it remains elusive in Human-Robot
Interaction (HRI). This paper unveils power's pervasive but largely unexplored role in HRI by …

A risk-averse optimization approach to human-robot collaboration in robotic fruit harvesting

MW Rysz, SS Mehta - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2021 - Elsevier
The marketability and adoption of robotic systems in agriculture is largely limited by
economic and technology barriers that prevent highly efficient autonomous operations at a …

Referring expression generation under uncertainty: Algorithm and evaluation framework

T Williams, M Scheutz - … of the 10th international conference on …, 2017 - aclanthology.org
For situated agents to effectively engage in natural-language interactions with humans, they
must be able to refer to entities such as people, locations, and objects. While classic …