This paper provides a comprehensive review of the current status, advancements, and future
prospects of humanoid robots, highlighting their significance in driving the evolution of next …

This paper presents an overview of the inaugural Amazon Picking Challenge along with a
summary of a survey conducted among the 26 participating teams. The challenge goal was …

The development of a versatile, fully-capable humanoid robot as envisioned in science
fiction books is one of the most challenging but interesting issues in the robotic field …

The evaluation of artificial intelligence systems and components is crucial for the progress of
the discipline. In this paper we describe and critically assess the different ways AI systems …

While some computational models of intelligence test problems were proposed throughout
the second half of the XXth century, in the first years of the XXIst century we have seen an …

ABSTRACT The Industrial Assembly Challenge at the World Robot Summit was held in
2018 to showcase the state-of-the-art of autonomous manufacturing systems. The challenge …

We present RoboBench, a novel platform for sharing robot full-system simulations for
benchmarking. The creation of this platform and benchmark suite is motivated by a need for …

This paper proposes and explores an approach in which robotics projects of novice
engineering students focus on development of learning robots. We implemented a …

In this text we look to the past to two distinct strands of research into autonomous robots,
evolutionary robotics and humanoid robot research, and how these strands are now …

Basic walking gaits are a common building block for many activities in humanoid robotics,
such as robotic soccer. The nature of the walking surface itself also has a strong affect on an …