The complexity and unpredictability of the everyday world in which we humans move, usually without any effort, represents a big challenge for robots. Technical perception systems feed space data in the form…
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Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human form or other characteristics to anything other than a human being. Humans tend to anthropomorphize not only nature, but basically anything around them [1].…
On the one side, interacting with a social robot is seen as fundamentally different from interacting with other technical devices, such as a PC or a coffee brewer. On the…
Oliver Schürer Most recent work on domestic and office robotics is premised on one of two alternative conceptions: robots are envisaged as either instrumental or assistive. While instrumental robots take…
Kari Jormakka The dominating theory of architectural space is based on a phenomenological conception of the body. Edmund Husserl maintained that all spatiality is constituted through movement, the movement of…