This article offers a brief overview of most current and potential uses and applications of
robotics in health/care and social care, whether commercially ready and available on the …

As there come to be more applications of intelligent robots, their task object is becoming
more varied. However, it is still a challenge for a robot to handle unfamiliar objects. We …

This paper explores the current state and the potential adoption of service automation and
robots by tourist, travel and hospitality companies. Despite the huge advancements in social …

Intelligent systems are increasingly part of our everyday lives and have been integrated
seamlessly to the point where it is difficult to imagine a world without them. Physical …

In present-day in consumers' homes, there are millions of Internet-connected devices that
are known to jointly represent the Internet of Things (IoT). The development of the IoT …

Abstract Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), which can learn complex policies with high-
dimensional observations as inputs, eg, images, has been successfully applied to various …

This article presents the development of a robot-integrated smart home (RiSH) which can be
used for research in assistive technologies for elderly care. The RiSH integrates a home …

Automatic emotion recognition from the analysis of body movement has tremendous
potential to revolutionize virtual reality, robotics, behavior modeling, and biometric identity …

This work presents a complete pipeline for folding a pile of clothes using a dual-armed robot.
This is a challenging task both from the viewpoint of machine vision and robotic …

We analyse people's attitudes to robots to be used in caring for the elderly using
Eurobarometer data relating to November/December 2014 on approximately 1000 people in …