A robust interactive entertainment robot for robot magic performances

Morris, Kyle John; Samonin, Vladyslav; Baltes, Jacky; Anderson, John; Lau, Meng Cheng

doi:10.1007/s10489-019-01565-7

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“…Some competitions found have sports as a theme and often have soccer games, like RoboCup@Soccer, FIRA HuroCup and WRO football category [ 4 , 24 , 81 ]. Besides that, there are competitions that include magic and dance like IEEE Humanoid Application Challenge [ 65 ], in which the robot needs to perform a magic show and RoboCup@Junior Dance Challenge [ 10 , 29 ] which the robot needs to perform a dance and its focus is more on education. There also are competitions totally online for example the CiberMouse@RTSS08 [ 23 ].…”

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“…There are some competitions that assist to push the state of the art in domains that are growing like air, land and sea, providing an opportunity to exchange ideas, create solutions as well as a venue to evaluate and encourage state of art research. Autonomous vehicles and drones are fields that have been attracting a lot of attention, mainly through robotics competitions [ 4 , 53 , 54 , 65 , 66 ].…”

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“…Description It is a multi-event robot athletic competition intended to encourage breath in humanoid performance [24,65].…”

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“…Student Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Challenge-Europe (SAUC-E) [2,39,53,62,67,73] An Outdoor Robotics Challenge for Land, Sea and Air (EURATHLON) [2,33,39,44,53,54,62,67,73] The European Robotics League (ERL)/ERL Emergency [53,54,59,66,67,74] DARPA Robotics Challenge[3,4,8,27,28,32,33,35,36,39,44,53,59,62,65,66] …”

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Systematic Mapping Literature Review of Mobile Robotics Competitions

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Gonçalves

Conde-González

et al. 2022

Sensors

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This paper presents a systematic mapping literature review about the mobile robotics competitions that took place over the last few decades in order to obtain an overview of the main objectives, target public, challenges, technologies used and final application area to show how these competitions have been contributing to education. In the review we found 673 papers from 5 different databases and at the end of the process, 75 papers were classified to extract all the relevant information using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) method. More than 50 mobile robotics competitions were found and it was possible to analyze most of the competitions in detail in order to answer the research questions, finding the main goals, target public, challenges, technologies and application area, mainly in education.

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“…Description It is a multi-event robot athletic competition intended to encourage breath in humanoid performance [24,65].…”

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“…Social robots play a valuable role in communicating with humans and helping them with daily tasks by understanding human intelligence and behavior. Robots can be used for entertainment purposes, as well [1]. To achieve this competence, the integration of various algorithms [2] and sensors [3] is needed.…”

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An Exploration of the Pepper Robot’s Capabilities: Unveiling Its Potential

Mishra,

Romero,

Pande

et al. 2023

Applied Sciences

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The application of social robots is increasing daily due to their various capabilities. In real settings, social robots have been successfully deployed in multiple domains, such as health, education, and the service industry. However, it is crucial to identify the strengths and limitations of a social robot before it can be employed in a real-life scenario. In this study, we explore and examine the capabilities of a humanoid robot, ‘Pepper’, which can be programmed to interact with humans. The present paper investigates five capabilities of Pepper: mapping and navigation, speech, hearing, object detection, and face detection. We attempt to study each of these capabilities in-depth with the help of experiments conducted in the laboratory. It has been identified that Pepper’s sound and speech recognition capabilities yielded satisfactory results, even with various accents. On the other hand, Pepper’s built-in SLAM navigation is unreliable, making it difficult to reach destinations accurately due to generated maps. Moreover, its object and face detection capabilities delivered inconsistent outcomes. This shows that Pepper has potential for improvement in its current capabilities. However, previous studies showed that with the integration of artificial intelligence techniques, a social robot’s capabilities can be enhanced significantly. In the future, we will focus on such integration in the Pepper robot, and the present study’s exploration will help to establish a baseline comprehension of the in-built artificial intelligence of Pepper. The findings of the present paper provide insights to researchers and practitioners planning to use the Pepper robot in their future work.

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