Following the need to develop robots capable of interacting naturally and safely with humans without the need of barriers, the Sharework project has developed a flexible software comprised with 14 technology modules to provide robots with the necessary intelligence to work in cooperation with human operators. Sharework collaborative robotics system is capable of understanding the environment and human actions…
Understanding humans to make more intelligent robots Humans are able to satisfy multiple objectives in parallel while performing a particular task. Let us assume a simple task like the one of watering plants. While performing this task, humans are able to satisfy multiple objectives in parallel. Humans should decide how to move the watering can to…
On May 21st 2021, Néstor Garcia, Sharework project Technical Coordinator and Researcher at Eurecat’s Robotics and Automation Unit, has been interviewed by representatives of the SoCoRob project, exploring the social construction of collaborative robots as co-workers of employees and how they can change the relationship between human labour and technology. SoCoRob project, led by the Department of Sociology of Technology and…
Proceedings of the ICAPS 2020 conference Stefan-Octavian Bezrucav, Burkhard Corves (RWTH Aachen University), 2020 Abstract Each human usually plans his or her future activities in advance, trying to select those actions and to sort them in such away that as many goals as possible are accomplished. The real world is dynamic and some elements are…
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Julen Urain and Jan Peters (TU Darmstadt), 2019 Abstract A similarity distance measure between two trajectories is an essential tool to understand patterns in motion, for example, in Human-Robot Interaction or Imitation Learning. The problem has been faced in many fields, from Signal Processing,…
