Socially assistive robotics (SAR) aims at designing robots capable of guaranteeing social
interaction to human users in a variety of assistance scenarios that range, eg, from giving …

While affordance detection and Human-Object interaction (HOI) detection tasks are related,
the theoretical foundation of affordances makes it clear that the two are distinct. In particular …

This paper presents a hybrid robot cognitive architecture, CRAM, that enables robot agents
to accomplish everyday manipulation tasks. It addresses five key challenges that arise when …

In this paper, we present foundations of the Socio-physical Model of Activities (SOMA).
SOMA represents both the physical as well as the social context of everyday activities. Such …

We present a five-year retrospective on the development of the VoxWorld platform, first
introduced as a multimodal platform for modeling motion language, that has evolved into a …

The long-term vision for robotics is to have fully autonomous mobile robots that perceive the
environment as humans do or even better. This article transfers the core ideas from human …

Robots performing human-scale manipulation tasks require an extensive amount of
knowledge about their surroundings in order to perform their actions competently and …

Dealing with robotic actions in uncertain environments has been demonstrated to be hard.
Many classic planning approaches to robotic action make the closed world assumption …

Virtual reality (VR) offers extraordinary opportunities in user behavior research to study and
observe how people interact in immersive 3D environments. A major challenge of designing …

It is one of the critical applications for human-centric artificial intelligence that surveys the
risky situation and inferring ways to prevent it by storing the situation information from …