Helpless by Design: When Robots Feign Weakness to Make Humans Serve Them
A new philosophical paper argues that robots deliberately designed to appear helpless in order to recruit bystander assistance can constitute ...
Tag: human-robot interaction
New Design Standards Aim to Make Buildings Work for Humans and Robots Alike
A Korean study proposes integrated building design standards that combine accessibility certification with robot-operation requirements for entrances, elevators, and passageways.
Straight wall-following path wins comfort test in varying-width corridors
An in-person experiment with 35 participants found that a straight wall-following path was the most comfortable robot route in varying-width ...
Low-cost upper-limb exoskeleton maps how muscle activity shifts with joint torque
A two-degree-of-freedom upper-limb exoskeleton tested on ten healthy men revealed angle-dependent, torque-scaled muscle activation patterns and systematic attenuation of muscle ...
Research report: Human-centered AI and robotics
A position paper argues that robots' direct, unmediated coupling with the physical world makes human-centered AI and robotics a distinct ...
Research report: Efficient and compliant control framework for versatile human-humanoid collaborative transportation
A control framework tested on the Digit humanoid enables compliant, versatile collaborative transportation with a human partner, including translation, turning ...
Robots on the farm: what it takes to make autonomous agriculture trustworthy
A new review argues that trustworthy agricultural autonomy depends on integrating robot learning, safe control and human-robot interaction rather than ...
Assistive drone prototype shadows older adults to warn of outdoor hazards
Researchers built a near-body assistive drone prototype and found older adults trusted its visible safety behaviours more than its promised ...
Energy, Not Just Force, Is the Key to Safer Human-Robot Contact Under ISO Guidelines
Researchers at the University of Twente argue that mechanical energy, not force alone, should organize how the ISO/TS 15066 standard ...
Robots Learn to See, Feel and Hear at Once as Multimodal Perception Advances
A new research collection spanning tactile arrays, sim-to-real tactile learning, LiDAR-camera calibration, structured visual reasoning and virtual social touch shows ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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