There is a significant amount of synergy between virtual reality (VR) and the field of robotics.
However, it has only been in approximately the past five years that commercial immersive …

Gender/ing guides how we view ourselves, the world around us, and each other—including
non-humans. Critical voices have raised the alarm about stereotyped gendering in the …

The need for real-time high-quality audio-visual systems skyrocketed with the advent of the
ANA Avatar XPRIZE, a worldwide Avatar Robotic System competition. Avatar-Hubo scored 6 …

The capabilities of teleoperated robots can be enhanced with the ability to recognise and
reproduce human-like behaviour. The proposed framework presents motion recognition for …

This work devises an optimized machine learning approach for human arm pose estimation
from a single smart-watch. Our approach results in a distribution of possible wrist and elbow …

Augmented and mixed-reality techniques harbor a great potential for improving human-robot
collaboration. Visual signals and cues may be projected to a human partner in order to …

Purpose In the current teleoperation system of humanoid robots, the control between arms
and the control between the waist and arms are individual and lack coordinated motion. This …

This article proposes a new method for the tracking of three-dimensional (3-D) hand palms
from the whole human standing body using fuzzy rule-based fusion of explainable fuzzy …

Using a map in an unfamiliar environment requires identifying correspondences between
elements of the map's allocentric representation and elements in egocentric views. Aligning …

Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) have demonstrated success in the delivery of interventions
to individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). To date, these robot-mediated …