Currently, a large number of industrial robots have been deployed to replace or assist
humans to perform various repetitive and dangerous manufacturing tasks. However, based …

As robotic devices are applied to problems beyond traditional manufacturing and industrial
settings, we find that interaction between robots and humans, especially physical interaction …

Augmenting the body with artificial limbs controlled concurrently to one's natural limbs has
long appeared in science fiction, but recent technological and neuroscientific advances …

When humans and robots work in close proximity, physical interaction is inevitable.
Traditionally, robots treat physical interaction as a disturbance, and resume their original …

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has greatly expanded human capabilities through
perception, understanding, action, and learning. The future of AI depends on cooperation …

Despite progress in using computational approaches to inform medicine and neuroscience
in the last 30 years, there have been few attempts to model the mechanisms underlying …

Humans can skilfully use tools and interact with the environment by adapting their
movement trajectory, contact force, and impedance. Motivated by the human versatility, we …

From a parent hel** to guide their child during their first steps, to a therapist supporting a
patient, physical assistance enabled by haptic interaction is a fundamental modus for …

In this paper, we propose a role adaptation method for human-robot shared control. Game
theory is employed for fundamental analysis of this two-agent system. An adaptation law is …

The last decades have seen a surge of robots working in contact with humans. However,
until now these contact robots have made little use of the opportunities offered by physical …