Robot swarms follow instructions to create art
Swarm of painting robots can cooperate to create art after human instructions: Frontiers in Robotics and AI [...]
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Frontiers to sponsor HRI 2020
The theme of this year’s HRI conference is “Real World Human-Robot Interaction”. [...]
Prof Kostas Kyriakopoulos now leads Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Professor Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos is new Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Robotics and AI [...]
Researchers in Japan make android child’s face strikingly more expressive
Researchers at Osaka University have made their robot child face more expressive, by measuring and calibrating 3D movement at over 100 facial areas; Frontiers in Robotics and AI [...]
Good news for immersive journalism: look at your audience
A new study in collaboration with the BBC finds that users feel more engaged in a virtual reality news experience when virtual characters acknowledge them - even by simple gaze; Frontiers in Robotics and AI [...]
Virtual reality could help doctors spot child abuse
The VR environment allowed doctors to interact with virtual, avatar patients in the same way as they would in a 'real' consultation: Frontiers in Robotics and AI [...]
On the road to Damascus – Frontiers in Robotics and AI addresses the ‘uncanny valley’ of human-robot interaction
Robots have been a part of our culture for centuries, but it is only in the last decade or two that robotic technology has really become integrated into daily life. [...]
Virtual humans can identify post-traumatic stress in soldiers
Soldiers are more likely to open up to a computer-generated virtual interviewer than by taking a survey, say researchers in Frontiers in Robotics and AI [...]
Google Glass app helps autistic children with social interactions
Wearable technology described in Frontiers in Robotics and AI can recognize conversational prompts and provide the user with suitable responses. [...]
Why humans find faulty robots more likeable
New study, published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, finds that humans prefer interacting with faulty robots more than with flawless robots. [...]
Empowering robots for ethical behavior
Researchers have developed a concept called Empowerment to help robots and humans to work and live side-by-side safely and effectively. [...]
Changing the self through immersive Virtual Reality: an interview with Mel Slater
“I still find immersive Virtual Reality as thrilling now as when I first tried it 20 years ago,” writes Professor Mel Slater, Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in [...]
