Nowadays, robots are dominating the manufacturing, entertainment, and healthcare
industries. Robot vision aims to equip robots with the capabilities to discover information …

Within the next decades, robots will need to be able to execute a large variety of tasks
autonomously in a large variety of environments. To relax the resulting programming effort, a …

Abstract The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a set of software libraries and tools used to
build robotic systems. ROS is known for a distributed and modular design. Given a model of …

For robots to navigate and interact more richly with the world around them, they will likely
require a deeper understanding of the world in which they operate. In robotics and related …

The evolution of contemporary mobile robotics has given thrust to a series of additional
conjunct technologies. Of such is the semantic map**, which provides an abstraction of …

Autonomous service robots will have to understand vaguely described tasks, such as “set
the table” or “clean up”. Performing such tasks as intended requires robots to fully, precisely …

It is important for a robot to be able to interpret natural language commands given by a
human. In this paper, we consider performing a sequence of mobile manipulation tasks with …

There is a growing trend in robotics for implementing behavioural mechanisms based on
human psychology, such as the processes associated with thinking. Semantic knowledge …

In this paper we report on a recent public experiment that shows two robots making
pancakes using web instructions. In the experiment, the robots retrieve instructions for …

Knowledge representation in autonomous robots with social roles has steadily gained
importance through their supportive task assistance in domestic, hospital, and industrial …