Humanoid robots: A new kind of tool

IEEE Intelligent Systems and Their Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 25-30

  Adams, Bryan ^a,b   Breazeal, Cynthia ^a   Brooks, Rodney A ^a   Scassellati, Brian ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Rodney Brooks' Humanoid Robotics Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER VISION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOT LEARNING; ROBOTIC ARMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

HUMAN INTELLIGENCE; HUMANOID ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0034225373     PISSN: 10947167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5254.867909     Document Type: Article

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