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Assistive robots compete in Bristol
SPARC
26 Jun 2017
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....
People favour expressive, communicative robots over efficient and effective ones
Adriana Hamacher
19 Aug 2016
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....
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...
Willow Garage scientists who make robots to help disabled people | Mercury News
John Payne
03 Dec 2012
“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...
A Frank Review of the movie ‘Robot & Frank’
Frank Tobe
07 Sep 2012
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...
