This issue of IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine (RAM) focuses on reproducibility and
measurability of robotics research. When announcing this special issue, I already outlined …

The famous experiment by Gal-ileo—one of the founders of modern science—in Pisa's
Cathedral in 1582, was one of the very first examples of a scientific experiment validating a …

Developing advanced robotics applications is now facing the safety issue for users, the
environment, and the robot itself, which is a main limitation for their deployment in real life …

The reproducibility of experimental results is a key characteristic of the scientific method.
Despite that, in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI)—maybe for good reason—replicating …

The insufficient level of reproducibility of published experimental results has been identified
as a core issue in the field of robotics in recent years. Why is that? First of all, robotics …

HERMES, a laboratory prototype of a humanoid service robot, served in a museum, far away
from its home laboratory, for more than six months up to 18 hours per day. During this period …

The dependability of autonomous systems is a particular concern, notably because of the
advanced decisional mechanisms and other artificial intelligence techniques on which such …

Experiments are essential ingredients of science, both to confirm/refute a theory and to
discover new theories. It is a common belief that experimentation in robotics has not yet …

While it is often said that in order to qualify as a true science robotics should aspire to
reproducible and measurable results that allow benchmarking, I argue that a focus on …

The use of collaborative robots in the industrial domain has significantly grown in the last
years, allowing humans to operate in the same workspace occupied by robots without any …