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 …

Learning how humans manipulate objects requires machines to acquire knowledge from
two perspectives: one for understanding object affordances and the other for learning …

Repetitive industrial tasks can be easily performed by traditional robotic systems. However,
many other works require cognitive knowledge that only humans can provide. Human-Robot …

In human-robot collaboration the robot's behavior impacts the worker's safety, comfort and
acceptance of the robotic system. In this paper we address the problem of how to improve …

Robot-human object handover has been extensively studied in recent years for a wide
range of applications. However, it is still far from being as natural as human-human …

Object handover is a common human collaboration behavior that attracts attention from
researchers in Robotics and Cognitive Science. Though visual perception plays an …

Collaborative robotics refers to the cooperation between humans and machines and aims at
improving productivity and at facilitating the worker in demanding tasks. The advantage of …

Collaborative robots that physically interact with humans in an ergonomic and safe manner
are essential to the future of industry. A common task across many industrial applications is …

Todays' ageing and increasingly dependent population has strong needs in terms of
assistance. In this article, we propose the design of comfortable robot-to-human handovers …

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss the following two functions that are
considered to be important in human-coexistence robots and human-symbiotic robots: the …