Essays about: "Humanoid robots"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 essays containing the words Humanoid robots.

  1. 1. Human and Robot Narrator: How Gestures Affect Comprehension and Recollection

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitionsvetenskap

    Author : Johannes Rosenfrost; [2023]
    Keywords : Cognitive Science; Cognition; Embodiment; Humanoid Robots; Social Robots; HRI; Human-Robot-Interaction; Social Interaction; Robotics; Linguistics; Communication; Multimodality; Non-verbal; Gestures; Narration; Comprehension; Recollection; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis investigated if a human or a robot narrator affected listeners’ comprehension and memory recollection similarly in a narrative story. 103 participants (MeanAge = 35) were recruited to an online experiment to investigate if gestures affected the participants’ narrative comprehension and recollection more than a narrator that did not produce gestures. READ MORE

  3. 2. Ambivalent encounters : A feminist exploration of human and feminised AI humanoid relations

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

    Author : Sara Margret Sigurdardottir; [2022]
    Keywords : Artificial intelligence; robot embodiment; Klara and the Sun; artist robot; sex robots; affect; human-machine relations;

    Abstract : Machines encoded with artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly having influence in human social realms. Rapid technological advances have propelled encounters between humans and embodied AI humanoids from a subject of science fiction to a real-world phenomenon. READ MORE

  4. 3. Behind Every Social Robot Finds itself a Community of Developers: A socio-legal exploration on developers of humanoid social robots with a focus on the context of depression diagnosis and its embedded gender norms.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Laetitia Tanqueray; [2021]
    Keywords : Socially Assistive Robots; HRI; Sociology of Law; Depression Diagnosis; Gender norms; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The rise in new digital technology is bringing with it new ethical questions around how we, as a society, can trust them. However, what if the question was before the technology itself? What if the role of the developers was influencing the way those new technologies were being programmed? This thesis situates itself at the point of exploration, where developers of humanoid social robots look for ways to advance the human-robot interaction as a field as well as getting social robots commercial-ised. READ MORE

  5. 4. ZERROR : Provoking ethical discussions of humanoid robots through speculative animation

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Weronika Krzewska; [2021]
    Keywords : human-robot interaction; speculative design; humanoid; robot ethics; animation; HCI;

    Abstract : Robotics engineers' ongoing quest to create human-like robots has raised profound questions on their lack of ethical implications. The rapid progress and growth of humanoid robots is said to have a significant impact on society and human psychology in the near future. READ MORE

  6. 5. A pondering robot : How gestures can indicate loading in robots

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Linette Nilsson; [2020]
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    Abstract : Waiting while computers and websites process and load information is a common occurrence and research shows that loading indicators can be used to elevate the user experience. Research on loading time for humanoid robots has so far mainly focused on the effects of auditory processing indicators or auditory processing indicators in combination with bodily gestures. READ MORE