Do Robotic Tutors Compromise the Social-Emotional Development of Children? [0.03%]
机器人助教会影响儿童的社会情绪发展吗？
Matthijs H J Smakman,Elly A Konijn,Paul A Vogt
Matthijs H J Smakman
Social robots are reported to hold great potential for education. However, both scholars and key stakeholders worry about children's social-emotional development being compromised. In aiming to provide new insights into the impact that soci...
Gradient Legal Personhood for AI Systems-Painting Continental Legal Shapes Made to Fit Analytical Molds [0.03%]
人工智能系统的渐进式法律人格——绘制大陆法系的分析框架形象
Diana Mădălina Mocanu
Diana Mădălina Mocanu
What I propose in the present article are some theoretical adjustments for a more coherent answer to the legal "status question" of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. I arrive at those by using the new "bundle theory" of legal personhood...
Optical-Waveguide Based Tactile Sensing for Surgical Instruments of Minimally Invasive Surgery [0.03%]
内窥镜手术器械的光学波导型触觉传感器
Yue Li,Jian Hu,Danqian Cao et al.
Yue Li et al.
In recent years, with the rapid development of minimally invasive surgery (MIS), the lack of force sensing associated with the surgical instrument used in MIS has been increasingly a desirable technology amongst clinicians. However, it is s...
Designing Persuasive Food Conversational Recommender Systems With Nudging and Socially-Aware Conversational Strategies [0.03%]
基于社会意识和劝说策略的设计食物对话推荐系统
Florian Pecune,Lucile Callebert,Stacy Marsella
Florian Pecune
Unhealthy eating behavior is a major public health issue with serious repercussions on an individual's health. One potential solution to overcome this problem, and help people change their eating behavior, is to develop conversational syste...
Closed-Loop Torque and Kinematic Control of a Hybrid Lower-Limb Exoskeleton for Treadmill Walking [0.03%]
下肢外骨骼助行时的闭环力矩和运动学控制
Chen-Hao Chang,Jonathan Casas,Steven W Brose et al.
Chen-Hao Chang et al.
Restoring and improving the ability to walk is a top priority for individuals with movement impairments due to neurological injuries. Powered exoskeletons coupled with functional electrical stimulation (FES), called hybrid exoskeletons, exp...
Cardiac Patch Transplantation Instruments for Robotic Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery: Initial Proof-of-concept Designs and Surgery in a Porcine Cadaver [0.03%]
机器人微创心脏手术的补片移植器械：初步的概念设计与猪尸体上的手术研究
Christopher D Roche,Gautam R Iyer,Minh H Nguyen et al.
Christopher D Roche et al.
Background: Damaged cardiac tissues could potentially be regenerated by transplanting bioengineered cardiac patches to the heart surface. To be fully paradigm-shifting, such patches may need to be transplanted using minimally invasive robot...
Pose Generation for Social Robots in Conversational Group Formations [0.03%]
用于对话组队排列的社交机器人的姿态生成方法研究
Marynel Vázquez,Alexander Lew,Eden Gorevoy et al.
Marynel Vázquez et al.
We study two approaches for predicting an appropriate pose for a robot to take part in group formations typical of social human conversations subject to the physical layout of the surrounding environment. One method is model-based and expli...
One Soft Step: Bio-Inspired Artificial Muscle Mechanisms for Space Applications [0.03%]
一步轻如鸿毛——仿生人工肌肉机制在航天领域中的应用
Joseph Ashby,Samuel Rosset,E-F Markus Henke et al.
Joseph Ashby et al.
Soft robots, devices with deformable bodies and powered by soft actuators, may fill a hitherto unexplored niche in outer space. All space-bound payloads are heavily limited in terms of mass and volume, due to the cost of launch and the size...
Evolutionary Inverse Material Identification: Bespoke Characterization of Soft Materials Using a Metaheuristic Algorithm [0.03%]
基于元启发式算法的逆向材料识别法：使用优化算法表征软体材料
Michele Di Lecce,Onaizah Onaizah,Peter Lloyd et al.
Michele Di Lecce et al.
The growing interest in soft robotics has resulted in an increased demand for accurate and reliable material modelling. As soft robots experience high deformations, highly nonlinear behavior is possible. Several analytical models that are a...
Zhongkui Wang,Shinichi Hirai,Sadao Kawamura
Zhongkui Wang
Despite developments in robotics and automation technologies, several challenges need to be addressed to fulfill the high demand for automating various manufacturing processes in the food industry. In our opinion, these challenges can be cl...