4 papers
CANINE: Coaching Visually Impaired Users for Interactive Navigation with a Robot Guide Dog
Cunjun Yu, Zishuo Wang, Anxing Xiao +2
Robot guide dogs offer navigation assistance that greatly expands the independent mobility of the visually impaired, but their effective use requires subtle human-robot coordinatio…
Robot Operation of Home Appliances by Reading User Manuals
Jian Zhang, Hanbo Zhang, Anxing Xiao +1
Operating home appliances, among the most common tools in every household, is a critical capability for assistive home robots. This paper presents ApBot, a robot system that operat…
TeachingBot: Robot Teacher for Human Handwriting
Zhimin Hou, Cunjun Yu, David Hsu +1
Teaching and learning physical skills often require one-on-one interaction, making it difficult to scale up, as there are not enough human teachers. Robots offer an attractive alte…
Robi Butler: Multimodal Remote Interaction with a Household Robot Assistant
Anxing Xiao, Nuwan Janaka, Tianrun Hu +4
Imagine a future when we can Zoom-call a robot to manage household chores remotely. This work takes one step in this direction. Robi Butler is a new household robot assistant that…