assistive robots

Assistive robots compete in Bristol

The Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) will host the first European- Commission funded European Robotics League (ERL) tournament for service robots to be held in the UK....

26 June 2017, by SPARC

People favour expressive, communicative robots over efficient and effective ones

Making an assistive robot partner expressive and communicative is likely to make it more satisfying to work with and lead to users trusting it more, even if it makes mistakes, a new study suggests....

19 August 2016, by Adriana Hamacher

Robotic assistants: Science meets fiction, with Carme Torras

In this video lecture Carme Torras, Research Professor at the Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC) looks at the process of working on assistive robots employed as helpers to disabled or elderly...

11 February 2016, by International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS)

Willow Garage scientists who make robots to help disabled people | Mercury News

“Their project is called the Robots for Humanity. And, says Romania-born Ciocarlie, ‘with PR2, we hope to use mobile manipulation to help people with disabilities regain a sense of indepen...

03 December 2012, by John Payne

A Frank Review of the movie ‘Robot & Frank’

My friends have been kidding me for months about the movie Robot & Frank (because my name is Frank, I've got gray hair, and I'm way into robots -- I research, edit and publish The Robot Report and...

07 September 2012, by Frank Tobe

assistive robots