by Martina Megaro | Aug 27, 2018 | Robotics, Story Technology, Visual Computing
Expressing Coherent Personality with Incremental Acquisition of Multimodal Behaviors We demonstrate the efficacy of the approach through a four-day study in which teams of participants interacted with a social robot expressing one of two personalities as the host of...
by Martina Megaro | Jul 11, 2018 | Story Technology, Visual Computing
Challenges in Exploiting Conversational memory in Human-Agent Interaction In this paper, we describe the dialog management mechanisms to achieve these goals when applied to a robot that engages in social chit-chat. July 11, 2018International Conference on Autonomous...
by Martina Megaro | Jul 3, 2018 | Digital Fabrication, Robotics
Computational Design of Robotic Devices from High-Level Motion Specifications We demonstrate the effectiveness of our computational design method by automatically creating a variety of robotic manipulators and legged robots. July 3, 2018IEEE Transactions on Robotics...
by Martina Megaro | Jun 5, 2018 | Robotics
Computational Co-Optimization of Design Parameters and Motion Trajectories for Robotic Systems We present a novel computational approach to optimizing the morphological design of robots. June 5, 2018International Journal of Robotics Research 2018 Authors...
by Martina Megaro | Apr 25, 2018 | Digital Fabrication, Robotics, VFX
Design and Fabrication of a Soft Robotic Hand and Arm System We present the hardware design and fabrication of a soft arm and hand for physical human-robot interaction. April 25, 2018IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics 2018 Authors Alex Alspach...
