27 news posts in Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Robotics and AI

22 Jan 2020

Frontiers to sponsor HRI 2020

The theme of this year’s HRI conference is “Real World Human-Robot Interaction”.

Frontiers news

06 Sep 2019

Prof Kostas Kyriakopoulos now leads Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Professor Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos is new Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Researchers in Japan make android child’s face strikingly more expressive

Researchers at Osaka University have made their robot child face more expressive, by measuring and calibrating 3D movement at over 100 facial areas; Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Good news for immersive journalism: look at your audience

A new study in collaboration with the BBC finds that users feel more engaged in a virtual reality news experience when virtual characters acknowledge them – even by simple gaze; Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Virtual reality could help doctors spot child abuse

The VR environment allowed doctors to interact with virtual, avatar patients in the same way as they would in a ‘real’ consultation: Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Robotics and AI

18 Jul 2018

On the road to Damascus – Frontiers in Robotics and AI addresses the ‘uncanny valley’ of human-robot interaction

Robots have been a part of our culture for centuries, but it is only in the last decade or two that robotic technology has really become integrated into daily life.

Robotics and AI

12 Oct 2017

Virtual humans can identify post-traumatic stress in soldiers

Soldiers are more likely to open up to a computer-generated virtual interviewer than by taking a survey, say researchers in Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Robotics and AI

22 Sep 2017

Google Glass app helps autistic children with social interactions

Wearable technology described in Frontiers in Robotics and AI can recognize conversational prompts and provide the user with suitable responses.

Robotics and AI

29 Aug 2017

Why humans find faulty robots more likeable

New study, published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, finds that humans prefer interacting with faulty robots more than with flawless robots.

Robotics and AI

27 Jul 2017

Empowering robots for ethical behavior

Researchers have developed a concept called Empowerment to help robots and humans to work and live side-by-side safely and effectively.

Robotics and AI

25 Oct 2016

Changing the self through immersive Virtual Reality: an interview with Mel Slater

“I still find immersive Virtual Reality as thrilling now as when I first tried it 20 years ago,” writes Professor Mel Slater, Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Robotics and AI, on his personal blog. Slater, recipient of the IEEE VGTC’s 2005 Virtual Reality Career Award, is ICREA Professor and Head of the Event Lab at Barcelona University and part-time Professor of Virtual Environments at UCL. Here, we talk to him about his research, technical advances and challenges in the field, and how virtual reality can help raise awareness about sustainability and global change. VR as a research tool A major focus of research for Slater and his team is to use VR as a tool in psychology and neuroscience. Many interesting questions can’t be studied in real life, because they are dangerous or distressing to the participants. But in VR, you can safely simulate the situation, and gauge people’s response. For example, “We did a study where we look at (…) an important area in social psychology called the bystander problem: if you see two other people who start fighting, (…) do you run away, do you try to intervene? (…) This is very hard to study in physical reality, but in virtual reality you can.” In […]

Robotics and AI

18 Aug 2016

Living with a prosthesis that learns: A case-study in translational medicine

Every year 1,900 new upper-limb amputations occur in Europe, maintaining a population of such disabled persons hovering around 90,000. What can assistive robotics, rehabilitation science and engineering do for these people?