The realm of textiles spans clothing, households, healthcare, sports, and industrial
applications. The deformable nature of these objects poses unique challenges that prior …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers the potential to transform our lives in radical ways. However,
the main unanswered questions about this foreseen transformation are its depth, breadth …

In recent decades, modern developed societies have experienced a significant increase in
life expectancy, resulting in a significant degree of aging in the population. This …

In order to improve the efficiency and reduce the labor cost of cafeterias, an intelligent
master–slave collaborative robot system is developed for cafeteria service in this paper. The …

This paper introduces two type-agnostic and fabric-agnostic methods for robotic unfolding of
garments. In the first method, a new path extraction procedure for unfolding the upper layer …

Purpose The primary goal of domestic washing and drying processes is to deliver clean and
dry clothes, but they often result in excessive wrinkling of fabrics. This study aims to evaluate …

This paper proposes a hierarchical visual architecture for perceiving garments' configuration
independently from their type for the robotic unfolding task. Special focus is given on the …

Service robots are mechatronic systems designed to perform tasks partially or autonomously
at the service of the well-being of humans, either due to the degree of complexity they …

This chapter discusses challenges for designing robots that interact with people in the
workplace. It begins with an overview of workplace deployment contexts and a review of …

An intelligent robot requires episodic memory that can retrieve a sequence of events for a
service task learned from past experiences to provide a proper service to a user. Various …