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Complementary Sociorobot Issues

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Sociorobot World

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Sociorobots represent a class of ‘conversational artificial beings’ which can be used for social caring of people needing it, for entertainment, and in many cases for research purposes. The aim of this chapter is to deal with a number of conceptual and practical issues of sociorobot design complementary to those discussed in other chapters of the book. Specifically, the chapter discusses the general sociorobot design, embodiment, and morphology aspects, investigates more closely the human-oriented robot perception (person tracking, face and gesture recognition, speech recognition), presents the concept of ‘design pattern’ as applied to sociorobots, and provides a brief account of sociorobot ethical issues, viz., attachment, deception, awareness, robot authority, user autonomy, user privacy, justice, and robot mediated human-human interaction.

You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robot goals.

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Tzafestas, S.G. (2016). Complementary Sociorobot Issues. In: Sociorobot World. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 80. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21422-1_10

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