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PhyPush: One Push is All You Need for Sensorless Physical Property Estimation with Physics-Guided Transformers
Koyo Fujii, Luis Figueredo, Praminda Caleb-Solly +4
Accurately estimating object mass and friction is fundamental to reliable robotic manipulation. While interactive perception is powerful, most approaches rely on specialized hardwa…
Beyond Detection -- Orchestrating Human-Robot-Robot Assistance via an Internet of Robotic Things Paradigm
Joseph Hunt, Koyo Fujii, Aly Magassouba +1
Hospital patient falls remain a critical and costly challenge worldwide. While conventional fall prevention systems typically rely on post-fall detection or reactive alerts, they a…
Facilitating the Emergence of Assistive Robots to Support Frailty: Psychosocial and Environmental Realities
Angela Higgins, Stephen Potter, Mauro Dragone +4
While assistive robots have much potential to help older people with frailty-related needs, there are few in use. There is a gap between what is developed in laboratories and what…
Tangles: Unpacking Extended Collision Experiences with Soma Trajectories
Steve Benford, Rachael Garrett, Christine Li +10
We reappraise the idea of colliding with robots, moving from a position that tries to avoid or mitigate collisions to one that considers them an important facet of human interactio…
DRAPER: Towards a Robust Robot Deployment and Reliable Evaluation for Quasi-Static Pick-and-Place Cloth-Shaping Neural Controllers
Halid Abdulrahim Kadi, Jose Alex Chandy, Luis Figueredo +2
Comparing robotic cloth-manipulation systems in a real-world setup is challenging. The fidelity gap between simulation-trained cloth neural controllers and real-world operation hin…
Vibrotactile information coding strategies for a body-worn vest to aid robot-human collaboration
Adrian Vecina Tercero, Praminda Caleb-Solly
This paper explores the use of a body-worn vibrotactile vest to convey real-time information from robot to operator. Vibrotactile communication could be useful in providing informa…