Learning from demonstration (LfD) has been used to help robots to implement manipulation
tasks autonomously, in particular, to learn manipulation behaviors from observing the motion …

As robots interact with a broader range of end-users, end-user robot programming has
helped democratize robot programming by empowering end-users who may not have …

Recent progress in artificial intelligence has renewed interest in building systems that learn
and think like people. Many advances have come from using deep neural networks trained …

Due to a general shift in manufacturing paradigm from mass production towards mass
customization, reconfigurable automation technologies, such as robots, are required …

The current dominant paradigm for imitation learning relies on strong supervision of expert
actions to learn both'what'and'how'to imitate. We pursue an alternative paradigm wherein an …

The uncanny valley—the unnerving nature of humanlike robots—is an intriguing idea, but
both its existence and its underlying cause are debated. We propose that humanlike robots …

With the exponential growth of livestream shop** and the development of artificial
intelligence (AI), virtual influencers powered by AI have become a new trend. However, this …

Anthropomorphism is a far-reaching phenomenon that incorporates ideas from social
psychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and the neurosciences …

A comprehensive overview of an interdisciplinary approach to robotics that takes direct
inspiration from the developmental and learning phenomena observed in children's …

We present a comprehensive survey of robot Learning from Demonstration (LfD), a
technique that develops policies from example state to action map**s. We introduce the …