Collaborative robots provide prospective and great solutions to human–robot cooperative
tasks. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review for two significant topics in human …

Instruction-following agents must ground language into their observation and action spaces.
Learning to ground language is challenging, typically requiring domain-specific engineering …

This paper describes an approach for a robotic arm to learn new actions through dialogue in
a simplified blocks world. In particular, we have developed a threetier action knowledge …

To enable situated human-robot dialogue, techniques to support grounded language
communication are essential. One particular challenge is to ground human language to …

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 …

To enable language-based communication and collaboration with cognitive robots, this
paper presents an approach where an agent can learn task models jointly from language …

Linguistics studies have shown that action verbs often denote some Change of State (CoS)
as the result of an action. However, the causality of action verbs and its potential connection …

This paper introduces situated tangible robot programming, whereby a robot is programmed
by placing specially designed tangible" blocks" in its workspace. These blocks are used for …

We report on a user study that sought to understand how users program robot tasks by direct
demonstration and what problems they encounter when using a state-of-the-art robot …

The great diversity of end-user tasks ranging from manufacturing environments to personal
homes makes pre-programming robots for general purpose applications extremely …