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most citedLearning to Control an Android Robot Head for Facial Animation

3 citations · 3 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.RO2026

Not Forgotten: Implementation and Evaluation of a Personalized Episodic Memory for the Humanoid Robot Head Kim

Steve Aschenbrenner, Marcel Heisler, Thomas Sievers +1

Social robots that rely on large language models for conversation are unable to retain information across sessions. This absence of memory violates social expectations, potentially…

cs.RO2026

A Case Study on the Acceptance of a Humanoid Robotic Head Employed in Three Public Spaces

Marcel Heisler, Luca Randecker, Christian Becker-Asano

Previous research has shown that a human-like robot's acceptance heavily depends on the setting in which it operates and its ability to perform relevant tasks. This paper, first, r…

cs.RO2026

Back to the museum: Investigation of the acceptance of Android Andrea with and without emotion simulation in a museum

Marcel Heisler, Christian Becker-Asano

For a second time, the android robot Andrea was set up at a public museum in Germany for six consecutive days to have conversations with visitors, fully autonomously. Building on p…

cs.RO2025

Conversations with Andrea: Visitors' Opinions on Android Robots in a Museum

Marcel Heisler, Christian Becker-Asano

The android robot Andrea was set up at a public museum in Germany for six consecutive days to have conversations with visitors, fully autonomously. No specific context was given, s…

cs.RO2024★ 3 cited

Learning to Control an Android Robot Head for Facial Animation

Marcel Heisler, Christian Becker-Asano

The ability to display rich facial expressions is crucial for human-like robotic heads. While manually defining such expressions is intricate, there already exist approaches to aut…

cs.RO2023

An Android Robot Head as Embodied Conversational Agent

Marcel Heisler, Christian Becker-Asano

This paper describes, how current Machine Learning (ML) techniques combined with simple rule-based animation routines make an android robot head an embodied conversational agent wi…