Analysis and Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition
The ANA Avatar XPRIZE was a four-year competition to develop a robotic "avatar" system to allow a human operator to sense, communicate, and act in a remote environment as though physically...
Build Your Own Robot Friend: An Open-Source Learning Module for Accessible and Engaging AI Education
As artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in our society and global economy, AI education and literacy have become necessary components in college and K-12...
Formalizing and Guaranteeing* Human-Robot Interaction
Robot capabilities are maturing across domains, from self-driving cars, to bipeds and drones. As a result, robots will soon no longer be confined to safety-controlled industrial settings; instead,...
Software architecture for YOLO, a creativity-stimulating robot
YOLO is a social robot designed and developed to stimulate creativity in children through storytelling activities. Children use it as a character in their stories. This article details the...
Privacy-Preserving Pose Estimation for Human-Robot Interaction
Pose estimation is an important technique for nonverbal human-robot interaction. That said, the presence of a camera in a person's space raises privacy concerns and could lead to distrust of the...
Face-work for Human-Agent Joint Decision-Making
We propose a method to integrate face-work, a common social ritual related to trust, into a decision-making agent that works collaboratively with a human. Face-work is a set of trust-building...
Analytical Inverse Kinematics for a 5-DoF Robotic Arm with a Prismatic Joint
We present an analytical solution for the inverse kinematics (IK) of a robotic arm with one prismatic joint and four revolute joints. This 5-DoF design is a result of minimizing weight while...