A key challenge in intelligent robotics is creating robots that are capable of directly
interacting with the world around them to achieve their goals. The last decade has seen …

Creating autonomous robots that can actively explore the environment, acquire knowledge
and learn skills continuously is the ultimate achievement envisioned in cognitive and …

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 …

Artificial intelligence has made tremendous advances since its inception about seventy
years ago. Self-driving cars, programs beating experts at complex games, and smart robots …

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

Designing a robot system with reasoning and learning ability has gradually become a
research focus in robotics research field. Recently, Skill Transfer Learning (STL), ie, the …

The slogan “robots will pervade our environment” has become a reality. Drones and ground
robots are used for commercial purposes while semi-autonomous driving systems are …

Using human tools can significantly benefit robots in many application domains. Such ability
would allow robots to solve problems that they were unable to without tools. However, robot …

Perceiving potential" action possibilities"(ie, affordance) regions of images and learning
interactive functionalities of objects from human demonstration is a challenging task due to …

We approach the question 'What is consciousness?'in a new way, not as
Descartes''systematic doubt', but as how organisms find their way in their world. Finding …