Social Robots - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University
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Social Robots
Project Head: Reid Simmons

The goal of the Social Robot Project is to overcome the human-robot social barrier. Towards this end, we are in the process of developing a robot which bears a personality, and which can behave according to social conventions. The idea is that communication and interaction with robots should be easy and enjoyable, both for unfamiliar users and trained professionals. We want robots to behave more like people, so that people do not have to behave like robots when they interact with them.

Displaying 19 Publications

2010
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-10-13, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2010
Rachel Kirby, Jodi Forlizzi, and Reid Simmons
Journal Article, Robotics and Autonomous Systems: Special Issue: Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 2009: Intelligent, Autonomous Robotics in the UK, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 322 - 332, March, 2010
2007
Marek Piotr Michalowski, Selma Sabanovic, Carl Francis DiSalvo, Didac Busquets Font, Laura M. Hiatt, Nicholas Melchior, and Reid Simmons
Journal Article, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 385 - 397, May, 2007
Selma Sabanovic, Marek Piotr Michalowski, and Linnda R. Caporael
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '07 Spring Symposium on Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Socially Assistive Robotics, pp. 71 - 77, March, 2007
Rachel Kirby, Jodi Forlizzi, and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '07), pp. 17 - 24, March, 2007
2006
Rachel Kirby, Reid Simmons, and Jodi Forlizzi
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '06), pp. 558 - 563, September, 2006
Workshop Paper, 9th International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (AMC '06), pp. 762 - 767, March, 2006
Rachel Kirby, Jodi Forlizzi, and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '06), pp. 186 - 193, March, 2006
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '06), pp. 347 - 348, March, 2006
Workshop Paper, 9th International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (AMC '06), pp. 596 - 601, March, 2006

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