On the Design of the Huggable Robot Probo

Journal of Physical Agents

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 3-11

  Saldien, Jelle ^a   Goris, Kristof ^a   Yilmazyildiz, Selma ^a   Verhelst, Werner ^a   Lefeber, Dirk ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Human robot interaction; Robot assisted therapy; Robot design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973473658     PISSN: 18880258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14198/JoPha.2008.2.2.02     Document Type: Article

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