Robots with humanoid features in public places: a case study

IEEE Intelligent Systems and Their Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 7-11

  Thrun, Sebastian ^a,b,c   Schulte, Jamieson ^a,c   Rosenberg, Charles ^a,c,d  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; HUMANOID ROBOTS; TOUR GUIDE ROBOTS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FINITE AUTOMATA; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION CONTROL; MUSEUMS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOT LEARNING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0034228642     PISSN: 10947167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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