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Advances in Human-Robot Interaction Prassler, E., Lawitzky, G., Stopp, A., Grunwald, G., Hägele, M., Dillmann, R., lossifidis, I. (eds) Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Vol. 14 2005 414 p. 206 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 3-540-23211-7 £92.50
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Keywords Robotics, Books
Over the last few decades, robots have developed from being very basic pick and place machines into autonomous devices that are able to perform a vast range of tasks based on computer programmes, sensors and actuators of varying degrees of intelligence, skill, power, and precision.
As the robot attempts to move from the highly constrained environment of an engineering research laboratory into the unstructured human world, the vast range of problems faced by the robot system includes the instruction, communication and interaction of the individual robots with not only the surrounding physical, material world, but also the fuzzy, ill-defined organic world of the human being.
In this world, robots are expected to not...