A survey of socially interactive robots

Robotics and Autonomous Systems - Tập 42 Số 3-4 - Trang 143-166 - 2003
Terrence Fong1,2, Illah Nourbakhsh2, Kerstin Dautenhahn3
1Institut de production et robotique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
2The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
3Department of Computer Science, The University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, UK

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