Robot Play For All

Author : Andrea Bonarini,Serenella Besio
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031050428

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Robot Play for All by Andrea Bonarini,Serenella Besio Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive guide to the design of playing robots and the related play experiences. Play is a natural activity for building and improving abilities, and it reveals important particularly for persons with disabilities. Many social, physical and cultural factors may hinder children with disabilities from fully enjoying play as their peers. Autonomous robots with specific characteristics can enhance the ludic experience, having implications for the character of the play and presenting opportunities related to autonomy and physical movement, the very nature of robots. Their introduction into play thus provides everybody, and in particular persons with disabilities, new possibilities for developing abilities, improving general status, participating in social contexts, as well as supporting professionals in monitoring progress. This book presents a framework for the design of playful activities with robots, developed over 20 years’ experience at AIRLab - POLIMI. Part 1 introduces the play concepts and characteristics, and research results about play of children with different kinds of impairments. Part 2 focuses on implementing robots able to play. The design of playful activities is discussed, as well as the necessary characteristics for them to be useful in both general play and activities involving disability-related limitations. In Part 3, the defined framework is used to analyze possibilities involving robots available on the toy market, robots developed at research labs, and robots to be developed in the next future. The aim of the book is to give developers, caregivers, and users a set of methodological tools for selecting, exploring, and designing inclusive play activities where robots play a central role.

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1536435074

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The Wild Robot by Peter Brown Pdf

Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.

Author : Cédric Buche
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031550157

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RoboCup 2023: Robot World Cup XXVI by Cédric Buche Pdf

Author : Robert Coover
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01
Category : Accountants
ISBN : 0749398205

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The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop by Robert Coover Pdf

Author : Karel Capek
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780486112206

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R.U.R. by Karel Capek Pdf

Two sets of identical twins provide the basis for ongoing incidents of mistaken identity, within a lively plot of quarrels, arrests, and a grand courtroom denouement. One of Shakespeare's earliest comedic efforts.

Author : Hiroaki Kitano
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540644733

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RoboCup-97: Robot Soccer World Cup I by Hiroaki Kitano Pdf

RoboCup is an international initiative devoted to advancing the state of the art in artificial intelligence and robotics. The ultimate, long range goal is to build a team of robot soccer players that can beat a human World Cup champion team.This is the first book devoted to RoboCup. It opens with an overview section presenting the history of this young initiative, motivation, the overall perspectives and challenges, and a survey of the state of the art in the area. The technical paper section presents the state of the art of the interdisciplinary research and development efforts in details, essentially building on the progress achieved during the RoboCup-97 Workshop. The team description contributions discuss technical and strategic aspects of the work of the participating teams.

Author : Julie Flett
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781771646086

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We All Play by Julie Flett Pdf

A BEST CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New York Public Library, Kirkus Reviews, Globe and Mail, Horn Book, and Boston Globe STARRED Reviews in Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, The Horn Book, School Library Journal A 2022 Best Book for Babies From Julie Flett, the beloved author and illustrator of Birdsong, comes a joyous new book about playtime for babies, toddlers, and kids up to age 7. Animals and kids love to play! This wonderful book celebrates playtime and the connection between children and the natural world. Beautiful illustrations show: birds who chase and chirp! bears who wiggle and wobble! whales who swim and squirt! owls who peek and peep! and a diverse group of kids who love to do the same, shouting: We play too! / kimêtawânaw mîna At the end of the book, animals and children gently fall asleep after a fun day of playing outside, making this book a great bedtime story. A beautiful ode to the animals and humans we share our world with, We All Play belongs on every bookshelf. This book also includes: A glossary of Cree words for wild animals in the book A pronunciation guide and link to audio pronunciation recordings

Author : Jun Jo,Han-Lim Choi,Marde Helbig,Hyondong Oh,Jemin Hwangbo,Chang-Hun Lee,Bela Stantic
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031268892

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Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 7 by Jun Jo,Han-Lim Choi,Marde Helbig,Hyondong Oh,Jemin Hwangbo,Chang-Hun Lee,Bela Stantic Pdf

We are starting to enter a post-COVID-19 life. While this pandemic has made everyone’s life challenging, it also expedited the transition of our everyday lives into a new form, often called “The New Normal.” Although many people often use the terminology, perhaps we still do not have consensus about what it is and what it should be like. However, one thing that is clear namely that robotics and artificial intelligence technologies are playing a critical role in this transition phase of our everyday lives. We saw the emergence of last-mile delivery robots on the street, AI-embedded service robots in restaurants, uninhabited shops, non-face-to-face medical services, conferences and talks in metaverses, and AI-based online education programs. This book is an edition that aims at serving researchers and practitioners in related fields with a timely dissemination of the recent progress in the areas of robotics and artificial intelligence. This book is based on a collection of papers presented at the 10th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA), held at Griffith University in the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The conference was held in a hybrid format on December 7–9, 2022, with the main theme “Artificial, Agile, Acute Robot Intelligence.” For better readability, the total of 41 papers are grouped into five chapters: Chapter I: Motion Planning and Control; Chapter II: Vision and Image Processing; Chapter III: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Autonomous Vehicles; Chapter IV: Learning and Classification; and Chapter V: Environmental and Societal Robotic Applications. The articles were accepted through a rigorous peer-review process and presented at the RiTA 2022 conference. Also, they were updated, and final versions of the manuscripts were produced after in-depth discussions during the conference. We would like to thank all the authors and editors for contributing to this edition.

Author : Sven Behnke,Manuela M. Veloso,Arnoud Visser,Rong Xiong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783662444689

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RoboCup 2013: Robot World Cup XVII by Sven Behnke,Manuela M. Veloso,Arnoud Visser,Rong Xiong Pdf

This book includes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th Annual RoboCup International Symposium, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in June 2013. The 20 revised papers presented together with 11 champion team papers, 3 best paper awards, 11 oral presentations, and 19 special track on open-source hard- and software papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers present current research and educational activities within the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence with a special focus to robot hardware and software, perception and action, robotic cognition and learning, multi-robot systems, human-robot interaction, education and edutainment, and applications.

Author : Luca Iocchi,Hitoshi Matsubara,Alfredo Weitzenfeld,Changjiu Zhou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642029219

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RoboCup 2008: Robot Soccer World Cup XII by Luca Iocchi,Hitoshi Matsubara,Alfredo Weitzenfeld,Changjiu Zhou Pdf

The 12th annual RoboCup International Symposium was held during July 15–18, 2008 in conjunction with RoboCup 2008 Competitions and Demonstrations. The symposium represents the core meeting for the presentation and discussion of sci- tific contributions in diverse areas related to the main threads within RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCup@Home and RoboCupJunior. Its scope encompassed, but was not restricted to, research and education activities within the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics. A fundamental aspect of RoboCup is promoting science and technology among young students and researchers, in addition to providing a forum for discussion and excitement about Robotics with practitioners from all over the world. Since its first edition in 1997 in Nagoya, the RoboCup Competitions and Symposium have attracted an increasing number of researchers and students from all the world and today it is a major event in robotics worldwide. Due to its interdisciplinary nature and the exploration of various and intimate c- nections of theory and practice across a wide spectrum of different fields, the sym- sium offered an excellent opportunity to introduce new techniques to various scientific disciplines. The experimental, interactive and benchmark character of the RoboCup initiative created the opportunity to present, learn and evaluate novel ideas and - proaches with significant potential. If promising, they are then rapidly adopted and field-tested by a large (and still strongly growing) community.

Author : Sven Behnke,Raymond Sheh,Sanem Sarıel,Daniel D. Lee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319687926

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RoboCup 2016: Robot World Cup XX by Sven Behnke,Raymond Sheh,Sanem Sarıel,Daniel D. Lee Pdf

This book includes the post-conference proceedings of the 20th RoboCup International Symposium, held in Leipzig, Germany, in July 2016. In addition to the 38 contributions to the symposium, selected from 63 submissions, the book also contains 15 champion papers of teams winning individual leagues of the RoboCup 2016 competition, the Amazon Picking Challenge, and the Harting Open Source Award. The papers present current research in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence with a special focus to robot hardware and software, environment perception, action planning and control, robot learning, multi-robot systems, and human-robot interaction.

Author : Becky Chambers
Publisher : Tordotcom
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250236227

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers Pdf

Winner of the Hugo Award! In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, bestselling Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk and Robot series, gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. They're going to need to ask it a lot. Becky Chambers's new series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Vladan Papić
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789533070360

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Robot Soccer by Vladan Papić Pdf

The idea of using soccer game for promoting science and technology of artificial intelligence and robotics was presented in the early 90s of the last century. Researchers in many different scientific fields all over the world recognized this idea as an inspiring challenge. Robot soccer research is interdisciplinary, complex, demanding but most of all, fun and motivational. Obtained knowledge and results of research can easily be transferred and applied to numerous applications and projects dealing with relating fields such as robotics, electronics, mechanical engineering, artificial intelligence, etc. As a consequence, we are witnesses of rapid advancement in this field with numerous robot soccer competitions and a vast number of teams and team members. The best illustration is numbers from the RoboCup 2009 world championship held in Graz, Austria which gathered around 2300 participants in over 400 teams from 44 nations. Attendance numbers at various robot soccer events show that interest in robot soccer goes beyond the academic and R

Author : Mark H. Lee,Patricia Shaw,Kathy Hirsh-Pasek,Karen E. Adolph,Qiang Shen,Pierre-Yves Oudeyer,Jill Popp
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782889660452

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Modeling Play in Early Infant Development by Mark H. Lee,Patricia Shaw,Kathy Hirsh-Pasek,Karen E. Adolph,Qiang Shen,Pierre-Yves Oudeyer,Jill Popp Pdf

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Author : Werner Schiehlen,Vincenzo Parenti-Castelli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783709102770

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ROMANSY 18 - Robot Design, Dynamics and Control by Werner Schiehlen,Vincenzo Parenti-Castelli Pdf

The papers in this volume provide a vision of the evolution of the robotics disciplines and indicate new directions in which these disciplines are foreseen to develop. Paper topics include, but are not limited to, novel robot design and robot modules/components, service, education, medical, space, welfare and rescue robots, humanoid robots, bio-robotics, multi-robot, embodied multi-agent systems, challenges in control, modeling, kinematical and dynamical analysis of robotic systems, innovations in sensor systems for robots and perception, and recent advances in robotics. In particular, many contributions on humanoid robots from leading Japanese researchers are included.