In this paper we propose that a metaphor can be used to represent domains that are not easily quantifiable. The metaphor then can be used as an interface to communicate informatio...
We apply manipulation planning to computer animation. A new path planner is presented that automatically computes the collision-free trajectories for several cooperating arms toma...
Yoshihito Koga, Koichi Kondo, James Kuffner, Jean-...
Energy efficiency has become a critical issue for battery-driven computers. Significant work has been devoted to improving it through better software and hardware. However, the hu...
A long-standing question within the robotics community is about the degree of human-likeness robots ought to have when interacting with humans. We explore an unexamined aspect of ...
Laurel D. Riek, Tal-Chen Rabinowitch, Bhismadev Ch...
Speech interfaces should have a capability of dealing with inexplicit utterances including such as ellipsis and deixis since they are common phenomena in our daily conversation. T...
Zaliyana Mohd Hanafiah, Chizu Yamazaki, Akio Nakam...