Top Research Papers on Robotics

This article argues that the authors need to distinguish between three main forms of robotic deception (external state deception; superficial state deception; and hidden state deception) in order to think clearly about its ethics.

This paper contributes to a taxonomy of augmented reality and robotics based on a survey of 460 research papers and formulate key challenges and opportunities to guide and inform future research in AR and robotics.

It is argued that the media performances of the Sophia robot were choreographed to advance specific political interests and put the discussions about the robot’s rights or citizenship in the context of AI politics and economics.

Robotic equipment has been playing a central role since the proposal of smart manufacturing. Since the beginning of the first integration of industrial robots into production lines, industrial robots have enhanced productivity and relieved humans from heavy workloads significantly. Towards the next generation of manufacturing, this review first introduces the comprehensive background of smart robotic manufacturing within robotics, machine learning, and robot learning. Definitions and categories of robot learning are summarised. Concretely, imitation learning, policy gradient learning, value fu...

This survey paper comprehensively reviews the state-of-the-art development of collaborative robotic manipulation from the perspective of modelling, control and optimization.

Grounded in post-Cartesian philosophical foundations, this work argues not just to deny robots 'rights', but to deny that robots, as artifacts emerging out of and mediating human being, are the kinds of things that could be granted rights in the first place.

Abstract We study the microeconomic implications of robot adoption using a rich panel data set of Spanish manufacturing firms over a 27-year period (1990–2016). We provide causal evidence on two central questions: (1) Which firm characteristics prompt firms to adopt robots? (2) What is the impact of robots on adopting firms relative to non-adopting firms? To address these questions, we look at our data through the lens of recent attempts in the literature to formalise the implications of robot technology. As for the first question, we establish robust evidence for positive selection, i.e., ex ...

This book explores the ethics of creating robots that are, or appear to be, decision-making agents and investigates ethically important differences between human agency and robot agency to work towards an ethics of responsible human-robot interaction.

Progress in the burgeoning field of tensegrity robotics is reviewed, highlighting several emerging challenges, including automated design, state sensing, and kinodynamic motion planning.

This article is a hands-on tutorial on the Franka Emika robot, the first series of industrial artificial intelligence (AI)-ready tactile robot platforms, and takes a close look at implementations with all interfaces, ranging from simple solutions, apps, and controllers to robot-learning examples illustrating how to exploit all the advantages of this platform in ongoing robotics research and education.

By assembling a multidisciplinary team of engineers and endoscopists, the paper aims to provide a contemporary and highly-pictorial critical review for robotic colonoscopes, hence providing clinicians and researchers with a glimpse of the major changes and challenges that lie ahead.

Technology developments relating to automation, artificial intelligence, and robots have transformed the landscape of service industries, including hospitality and tourism. Through a qualitative content analysis of online review data, this study seeks a comprehensive and grounded understanding of customer experience with service robots in hospitality and tourism settings. The analysis identified four categories of customer experience: (1) sensory experience (verbal language, physical appearance, kinesics, and paralanguage), (2) cognitive experience (utility, cuteness, autonomy, coolness, inter...

Effective integration between the electronic components with garments, human skin, and living organisms is illustrated, presenting multifunctional platforms with self-powered potential for human-robot interactions and biomedicine.

A conceptual framework is offered that interpretively develops the ethical implications of AI robot applications, drawing on descriptive and normative ethical theory, and indicates that in situations of escalating AI agency and situational moral intensity, accountability is widely dispersed between actors and institutions.

Emerging RAMIS technologies are reviewed both in a historical and a future perspective, indicating the inception of a new era in telesurgical robotics, infiltrated by machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.

The opportunities of using a digital twin to address the complexity of collaborative production systems through an industrial case and a demonstrator are explored.

It is proposed that people evaluate service robots more positively when they are anthropomorphized and seem more humanlike-capable of both agency and experience, and that high levels of perceived experience attenuate the negative impacts of service failures on customer satisfaction.

It is proposed that social robots may be an effective component in robot-assisted interventions for social anxiety, not replacing, but complementing the work of clinicians.

Lio is a mobile robot platform with a multi-functional arm explicitly designed for human-robot interaction and personal care assistant tasks, and complies with ISO13482 - Safety requirements for personal care robots, meaning it can be directly tested and deployed in care facilities.

A novel taxonomy of levels of interaction between humans and robots along the lines of SAEs guidelines for autonomous vehicles is introduced in response to a need for standard definitions and evolving nature of the field.