This article surveys the literature on human–robot object handovers. A handover is a
collaborative joint action, where an agent, the giver, gives an object to another agent, the …

Hand movement data acquisition is used in many engineering applications ranging from the
analysis of gestures to the biomedical sciences. Glove-based systems represent one of the …

In this paper, we analyze and compare existing human grasp taxonomies and synthesize
them into a single new taxonomy (dubbed “The GRASP Taxonomy” after the GRASP project …

Research on human and animal behavior has long emphasized its hierarchical structure—
the divisibility of ongoing behavior into discrete tasks, which are comprised of subtask …

Complex human behavior is organized around temporally distal outcomes. Behavioral
studies based on tasks such as normal prehension, multi-step object use and imitation …

In this paper, we propose that experimental protocols involving artificial agents, in particular
the embodied humanoid robots, provide insightful information regarding social cognitive …

The human hand has so many degrees of freedom that it may seem impossible to control. A
potential solution to this problem is “synergy control” which combines dimensionality …

Scientific interest in the relationship between cognition and action has increased markedly
in the past several years, fueled by the discovery of mirror neurons in monkey prefrontal and …

Understanding the goals or intentions of other people requires a broad range of evaluative
processes including the decoding of biological motion, knowing about object properties, and …

Prehension, the capacity to reach and grasp, is the key behavior that allows humans to
change their environment. It continues to serve as a remarkable experimental test case for …