What makes good representations for video understanding, such as anticipating future
activities, or answering video-conditioned questions? While earlier approaches focus on …

Compliant and soft hands have gained a lot of attention in the past decade because of their
ability to adapt to the shape of the objects, increasing their effectiveness for gras** …

In order to implement more accurate and fine-grained monitoring of robot-environment
interaction (REI) in real time, this article extends the concept of digital twin (DT) to REI …

Abstract Service robots are appearing more and more in our daily life. The development of
service robots combines multiple fields of research, from object perception to object …

One of the problems that service robotics deals with is to bring mobile manipulators to work
in semi-structured human scenarios, which requires an efficient and flexible way to execute …

Recognition of human manipulation actions together with the analysis and execution by a
robot is an important issue. Also, perception of spatial relationships between objects is …

Affordances play a crucial role in robotics since they allow develo** truly autonomous
robots, which can freely explore and interact with the environment. Most of the existing …

Recently, the behavior tree is gaining popularity as a robotic task-level knowledge
representation. Manual design of behavior trees from scratch is tedious and cumbersome …

A new definition of algorithms is given, where algorithms are understood as
cognitive'entities', the definition of which is done in tandem with so-called algorhymes, which …

In order to develop a grip** system or control strategy that improves scientific sampling
procedures, knowledge of the process and the consequent definition of requirements is …