3 papers
cs.RO2026
Olaf: Bringing an Animated Character to Life in the Physical World
David Müller, Espen Knoop, Dario Mylonopoulos +4
Animated characters often move in non-physical ways and have proportions that are far from a typical walking robot. This provides an ideal platform for innovation in both mechanica…
cs.RO2025
Autonomous Human-Robot Interaction via Operator Imitation
Sammy Christen, David Müller, Agon Serifi +5
Teleoperated robotic characters can perform expressive interactions with humans, relying on the operators' experience and social intuition. In this work, we propose to create auton…
cs.RO2025
Design and Control of a Bipedal Robotic Character
Ruben Grandia, Espen Knoop, Michael A. Hopkins +5
Legged robots have achieved impressive feats in dynamic locomotion in challenging unstructured terrain. However, in entertainment applications, the design and control of these robo…