Despite the relatively young age of Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) as a field, there is a
large volume of research on advances in robot hardware, software and behavior. The goal …

A bstract The omnidirectional drive is a popular challenging trend in today's mobile robotics
where different areas such as swarm, humanoid, legged, train-based, underwater, air flying …

The area of service robots has steadily gained interest over the years as an attempt for
deploying robots to tackle problems faced in our everyday lives. In this article, a survey on …

Traditional industry is seeing an increasing demand for more autonomous and flexible
manufacturing in unstructured settings, a shift away from the fixed, isolated workspaces …

A spherical wheel robot or Ballbot—a robot that balances on an actuated spherical ball—is a
new and recent type of robot in the popular area of mobile robotics. This paper focuses on …

For robots to successfully integrate into everyday life, it is important that they can be
effectively controlled by laypeople. However, the task of manually controlling mobile robots …

Domestic and human-centered environments pose many practical challenges for service
robots, especially those that must perform a diverse range of tasks. Existing robot …

Introduction Underlying mechanisms of speech perception masked by background
speakers, a common daily listening condition, are often investigated using various and …

Purpose: Multipurpose robots that can perform a range of useful tasks have the potential to
increase the quality of life for many people living with disabilities. Owing to factors such as …

Most standard controllers for high degrees of freedom (dof) robots are prone to consume
large quantity of energy and computational time. Humanoid high dof robots are mostly …