Category Archives: Touching People

Robots touching people: stroking, hugging, lifting, rubbing, manipulating limbs, washing, etc.

CHRIS movie about robots cooperating with humans

Posted on Tuesday May 29th, 2012 by Jeroen Arendsen

A European Social Robotics project called CHRIS (Cooperative Human Robot Interaction Systems FP7 215805) has received its final review last april. They have also created a very nice video that summarizes their work: As the video shows, the work is … Continue reading →

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Panasonic Presents 3 Care Robots at Tokyo’s HCRE

Posted on Monday October 10th, 2011 by Jeroen Arendsen

Bron: NTDTV Last week the Home Care & Rehabilitation Exhibition was held in Tokyo. On it Panasonic demonstrated three interesting and (rather) new products: A Hair-Washing Robot A Bed-Chair ‘Transformer’ A Telepresence Robot, HOSPI-Rimo The video provides good info, both … Continue reading →

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Science Update: How Do People Respond to Being Touched by a Robot?

Posted on Sunday April 3rd, 2011 by Jeroen Arendsen

A very interesting, ‘social robotics’ study recently gave us all some nice resultats. Apparently people do not always appreciate being touched by a robot. Somewhat surprisingly the results from one of the experiments showed that it matters why the robot … Continue reading →

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