A Nice Gesture by Jeroen Arendsen

Last Februari 15, 2012, NASA made a little fuss about Robonaut (or R2) performing ‘the first human-humanoid handshake in space’. You can watch it in the video below.

‘Robonaut Shakes Hands’, uploaded by ReelNASA
I would like to use this occasion to enlighten both humans and humanoids about greetings. Although it is of course nice that cpt. [...]

Posted on February 24th, 2012 under Gesture Semiotics, Robots, Social Robotics. Comments: None

In 2007 an interesting book was published that I believe is also relevant to gesture researchers:
Imitation and social learning in robots, humans and animals: behavioural, social and communicative dimensions.
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Kerstin Dautenhahn (Eds.). Cambridge University Press, 2007 - 479 pagina’s (available online in a limited way, here)

The book is an excellent volume with many [...]

Posted on March 3rd, 2011 under Academia, Mirror Neurons, Robots, Seeing Intentions, Social Robotics. Comments: None

Is it possible to give a good definition of social robotics? Is it a field of scientific study or is it only a catch phrase for exciting robot stuff? If it is a field of study, can we identify what belongs to it and what is outside of the field? Should we already set such [...]

Posted on October 4th, 2010 under Robots, Semiotics, Social Robotics. Comments: 1

After watching a bunch of Keepon movies on the tube I gotta say: Keepon Rocks. Great idea, great ‘minimal’ design, great manufacturing, great experience. Here’s a small collection…

See, for more info on the web:
beatbots.org
Hizook, robotics news portal
The Thinkers: Robotics developer helps studying autistic children
BotJunkie on Keepon
Q&A with Hideki Kozima - How Keepon was born and [...]

Posted on September 27th, 2010 under Robots, Social Robotics, The Power of Suggestion. Comments: None

I came across the folowing, wonderful list of things:
Mobility aids: Manual wheelchairs; powered wheelchairs; electric 3- and 4-wheel scooters; attendant pushed wheelchairs; walkers/rollators; canes; stretchers to move patients; turntables; floor lifts; ceiling/fixed lifts; driving equipment to assist physically challenged to drive; vehicles equipped to carry wheelchairs, etc.; and vehicles equipped with baths.
Bed-related products: Beds, mattresses, [...]

Posted on September 24th, 2010 under Healthcare, Robots. Comments: None

When will the positive effects of Paro, the robot baby harp seal that is reported to be quite useful in the nursing of the elderly, be considered ‘proven by evidence’ by the Dutch government and/or healthcare policymakers? Interesting question, I think.
I am told that, to some extent, the organizations providing health insurance (such as CZ, Achmea, OHRA, [...]

Posted on August 31st, 2010 under Robots. Comments: None

One CareBot ™ One Family was uploaded by: geckosystems
Duration: 139
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Posted on July 10th, 2009 under Healthcare, Insults and Vulgarity, Robots, Semiotics, Social Robotics, YouTube Faves. Tags: artificial, autonomous, intelligence, localization, mapping, navigation, nurse, rescue, Robot, SLAM. Comments: None

“Should I stay or should I go?” That seems to be the only concern of the robot that features in a demo movie made by researcher at Brown University. It takes its gestured orders in a way that is easily associated with the way soldiers on a patrol would gesture to ’stop’ or to ‘go’ [...]

Posted on March 12th, 2009 under Defense & Military, Gesture Recognition, Robots. Comments: None

Milford Go-Robo was uploaded by: MardyGit
Duration: 153
Rating:

Posted on January 15th, 2009 under Robots. Tags: dance, Programming, Robots. Comments: None