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Conventional robots consist of rigid parts and materials, limiting the deformation and adaptation of their body to the external environment. It is difficult for typical robots composed of stiff materials to ...

Since its inception in 2004, Ubiquitous Robots (UR) has now established itself as a leading mid-size robotics conference, bringing together robotics researchers from around the world who share the vision tha...

The purpose of this special issue is to explore how social robots can interact with humans socially and facilitate the integration of service robots. This special issue focuses on three social aspects of hum...

A practical service in a human centered environment requires well planned tasks which are often represented in abstract manners. For a care-providing robot to execute the tasks, it requires precise and adequ...