Haptic Feedback Boosts Trust in Surgical Robots
A study in the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery finds that visuo-haptic guidance in surgical robots increases ...
Tag: Human-Robot Interaction
Compact Local Language Models Direct Robotic Drawing Arm Without Cloud Computing
Researchers have demonstrated a fully on-device robotic drawing framework that translates natural language scene descriptions into physical sketch trajectories using ...
New Robot Usability Questionnaire Passes Key Validation Test With AI and Non-AI Robots
A 64-participant laboratory study largely confirmed the convergent validity of a robot-specific usability questionnaire across AI-labelled and conventional mobile robots.
Women Lead New Neuroscience Research on Empathy, Pareidolia and Mental Rotation
A new Frontiers editorial links persistent gender disparities in neuroscience careers to a collection of female-led studies on robot pain, ...
New Design Standards Aim to Make Buildings Work for Humans and Robots Alike
A Korean study proposes integrated building design standards that combine accessibility certification with robot-operation requirements for entrances, elevators, and passageways.
Straight wall-following path wins comfort test in varying-width corridors
An in-person experiment with 35 participants found that a straight wall-following path was the most comfortable robot route in varying-width ...
Low-cost upper-limb exoskeleton maps how muscle activity shifts with joint torque
A two-degree-of-freedom upper-limb exoskeleton tested on ten healthy men revealed angle-dependent, torque-scaled muscle activation patterns and systematic attenuation of muscle ...
Research report: Human-centered AI and robotics
A position paper argues that robots' direct, unmediated coupling with the physical world makes human-centered AI and robotics a distinct ...
Research report: Efficient and compliant control framework for versatile human-humanoid collaborative transportation
A control framework tested on the Digit humanoid enables compliant, versatile collaborative transportation with a human partner, including translation, turning ...
Robots on the farm: what it takes to make autonomous agriculture trustworthy
A new review argues that trustworthy agricultural autonomy depends on integrating robot learning, safe control and human-robot interaction rather than ...
Assistive drone prototype shadows older adults to warn of outdoor hazards
Researchers built a near-body assistive drone prototype and found older adults trusted its visible safety behaviours more than its promised ...
Energy, Not Just Force, Is the Key to Safer Human-Robot Contact Under ISO Guidelines
Researchers at the University of Twente argue that mechanical energy, not force alone, should organize how the ISO/TS 15066 standard ...
Robots Learn to See, Feel and Hear at Once as Multimodal Perception Advances
A new research collection spanning tactile arrays, sim-to-real tactile learning, LiDAR-camera calibration, structured visual reasoning and virtual social touch shows ...
Facial Landmarks Let Autonomous Vehicles Read Driver States in Real Time
A calibration-driven facial landmark system aboard an autonomous electric shuttle distinguished five driver behavioral states with interpretable machine learning, reaching ...
Review proposes explicit-intent framework for embodied AI
A peer-reviewed review proposes IDEAI, a framework for representing, checking and revising the intent that guides embodied AI actions in ...
Stiffer coupling speeds bimanual robot teaching without improving placement accuracy
A study of 15 volunteers found that strongly coupling two robot arms during kinesthetic teaching cut mean task time by ...
Human Brain Signals Could Train the Next Generation of Humanoid Robots
A new perspective in Frontiers in Neurorobotics proposes that humanoid robots could unlock embodiment-dependent neural signals, such as touch and ...
Emotional Images May Predict How Disaster Photos Spread, New AI Model Shows
A new graph neural network framework shows that continuous emotional embeddings from disaster images can predict how far and how ...
Your Brain Knows When the Robot Messes Up: EEG Error Signals Could Transform Human-Robot Teamwork
A systematic review of thirteen studies shows that brain signals called error-related potentials can be decoded to help robots detect ...
Seeing Beats Remembering: What Makes a Robot Feel Socially Present
A German study comparing vision and memory in conversational Pepper robots finds that seeing enhances perceived social presence, while remembering ...
