Past, present and future of intelligent robots

Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 801-810

  Graefe, Volker ^a   Bischoff, Rainer ^a  

^a BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANOID ROBOT; KEY TECHNOLOGIES; PERSONAL ROBOTICS; PROGRAMMABLE MACHINES;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 53849102188     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIRA.2003.1222283     Document Type: Conference Paper

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