Social agency theory suggests that when an (artificial) agent combines persuasive
strategies, its persuasive power increases. Therefore, we investigated whether a robot that …

Converging evidence from psychology, human factors, management and organizational
science, and other related fields suggests that humans working in teams employ shared …

This paper describes the development of a robot prototype for intervention, sampling, and
situation awareness in CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear) missions. It …

A previous study of a sand-swimming lizard, the sandfish, revealed that it swims within
granular media at speeds up to 0.4 body-lengths/cycle using body undulations …

The ability of robotic systems to effectively address disaster scenarios that are potentially
dangerous for human operators is continuing to grow as a research and development field …

Gas source localization tackles the problem of finding leakages of hazardous substances
such as poisonous gases or radiation in the event of a disaster. In order to avoid threats for …

The risk associated with chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNe)
threats in the last two decades has grown as a result of easier access to hazardous …

There are powerful tools for modelling swarms that have strong spatial structures like flocks
of birds, schools of fish and formations of drones, but relatively little work on developing …

Robots are flexible intelligent machines designed to replace human operators in dangerous,
dirty, and dull tasks. Therefore, an apparent application of robotics is to provide assistance in …

As part of a feasibility study, this paper shows the NASA Valkyrie humanoid robot performing
an endto-end improvised explosive device (IED) response task. To demonstrate and …