Robotics, Volume 6, Issue 1

Performing tasks with a robot hand often requires a complete knowledge of the manipulated object, including its properties (shape, rigidity, surface texture) and its location in the environment, in order to ensure safe and efficient manipulation. Whi...

This paper puts forward the potential for designing a parrot-inspired robot and an indirect teaching technique, the adapted model-rival method (AMRM), to help improve learning and social interaction abilities of children with autism spectrum disorder...

Binaural systems measure instantaneous time/level differences between acoustic signals received at the ears to determine angles $\mathsf{\lambda }$ between the auditory axis and directions to acoustic sources. An angle $\mathsf{\lambda }$ locates a source on a small circle...

To offer a functionality that could not be found in traditional rigid robots, compliant actuators are in development worldwide for a variety of applications and especially for human–robot interaction. Pneumatic bending actuators are a special kind of...

The editors of Robotics would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for assessing manuscripts in 2016.[...]