For some years now, the use of social, anthropomorphic robots in various situations has
been on the rise. These are robots developed to interact with humans and are equipped with …

Objective: The last decades have seen a surge of robots for physical training and work
assistance. How to best control these interfaces is unknown, although arguably the …

In the future, human-like robots will live among people to provide company and help
carrying out tasks in cooperation with humans. These interactions require that robots …

In the Turing test a computer model is deemed to “think intelligently” if it can generate
answers that are indistinguishable from those of a human. We developed an analogous …

The use of social, anthropomorphic robots to support humans in various industries has been
on the rise. During Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), physically interactive non-verbal …

Handshakes are fundamental and common greeting and parting gestures among humans.
They are important in shaping first impressions as people tend to associate character traits …

This letter introduces a prototype of a haptic interface designed to produce a realistic human-
robot handshake. Inspired by the human hand anatomy, a new robotic hand designed to …

In order to progress the development of intelligent soft hands for general-purpose use in
humanoid robots, social assistive robots, adaptive manufacturing, prosthetics and more, we …

Abstract In teleoperated Robot-Assisted Minimally-Invasive Surgery (RAMIS), a surgeon
controls the movements of instruments inside the patient's body via a pair of robotic joysticks …

Résumé Cette thèse présente la conception d'une interface haptique capable de rendre
l'interaction physique humain-robot naturelle et intuitive. Il s' agit là d'un sujet d'étude très …