The PackBots being used by the US military in Afghanistan and the urban search and
rescue (USAR) robots that worked the World Trade Center site are just two recent examples …

This paper describes two robot systems designed for urban search and rescue (USAR).
Usability tests were conducted to compare the two interfaces developed for humanrobot …

Methodology & Themes of Human-Robot Interaction: A Growing Research Field - Kerstin
Dautenhahn, 2007 Skip to main content Intended for healthcare professionals Sage Journals …

To forge effective collaborations with humans, robots require the capacity to understand and
predict the behaviors of their human counterparts. There is a growing body of computational …

A major goal of humanoid robotics is to enable safe and reliable human-robot collaboration
in realworld scenarios. In this article, we present ARMAR-6, a new high-performance …

This paper describes the technical approach, hardware design, and software algorithms that
have been used by Team THOR in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trials 2013 …

One of the key issues in space exploration is that of deciding what space tasks are best
done with humans, with robots, or a suitable combination of each. In general, human and …

This chapter discusses the generation of the appropriate human-robot ratio for
sociotechnical systems where a robot is being used for a novel task. Overall safety is …

This paper summarizes how Team KAIST prepared for the DARPA Robotics Challenge
(DRC) Finals, especially in terms of the robot system and control strategy. To imitate the …

Several researchers, present authors included, envision personal mobile robot agents that
can assist humans in their daily tasks. Despite many advances in robotics, such mobile robot …