Design and development of Nancy, a social robot

URAI 2011 - 2011 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 568-573

  Ge, S S ^a,b   Cabibihan, J J ^a,b   Zhang, Z ^a,b   Li, Y ^a,b   Meng, C ^a,b   He, H ^a,b   Safizadeh, M R ^a,b   Li, Y B ^a,b   Yang, J ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

human robot interaction; mechanical design; Social robot

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SKIN; CONTROL SUBSYSTEMS; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; DESIGN PHILOSOPHY; MECHANICAL DESIGN; SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL ROBOTS; SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION; WHOLE BODY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84863165521     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/URAI.2011.6145884     Document Type: Conference Paper

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