Educational results of the Personal Exploration Rover museum exhibit

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 4278-4283

  Nourbakhsh, Illah ^a   Hamner, Emily ^a   Dunlavey, Brian ^a   Bernstein, Debra ^b   Crowley, Kevin ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational robotics; Human robot interaction; Robot autonomy; Social robots

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MUSEUMS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTIC ARMS;

EDUCATIONAL ROBOTICS; ROBOT AUTONOMY; SOCIAL ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33846137637     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570778     Document Type: Conference Paper

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