An affective mobile robot educator with a full-time job

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 114, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 95-124

  Nourbakhsh, Illah R ^a   Bobenage, Judith ^b   Grange, Sebastien ^c   Lutz, Ron ^b   Meyer, Roland ^c   Soto, Alvaro ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^c Mobot Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Mobile robotics; Navigation; Optimization; Robot human interaction; Tour guide robots

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002218522     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0004-3702(99)00027-2     Document Type: Article

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