Socially interactive robots are expected to have an increasing importance in human society.
For social robots to provide long-term added value to people's lives, it is of major importance …

Heterogeneous multiple robots are currently being used in smart homes and industries for
different purposes. The authors have developed the Web interface to control and interact …

Socially assistive robotics is an important emerging research area. Socially assistive
robotics is challenging as it is required to move robots out of laboratories and industrial …

Heterogeneous Multiple Robots (HMR) can be used in daily life for smart homes and
industry. The differences in implementing different HMR can be minimized using middle …

In the past decade, an increasing discussion has taken place regarding the employment of
hotel service robots. One critical issue is the impact service robots exhibit on customer …

Socially interactive robots are expected to have an increasing importance in everyday life for
a growing number of people, but negative user experience (UX) can entail reluctance to use …

Whilst robots are increasingly being deployed as social agents, it is still difficult to program
them to interact socially. This is because current programming tools either require …

This paper presents our ongoing work towards facilitating the development of monitoring
systems with low cost autonomous mobile robots by unifying techniques from data mining …

Wheelchairs are the evaded partner in the lives of many differently-abled people to support
their day-to-day activities. Manual and powered wheelchairs fail to meet the docking …

Programming tasks on personal service robots in multi-disciplinary teams is challenging.
The goal of this research is to enable roboticists and non-programmer domain experts to co …