Two years ago, in an economically underprivileged neighbourhood, designers and researchers collaborated with residents to investigate how local community challenges could be supported by initially hypothetical autonomous urban robots that later became known as “hoodbots” (Jaskiewicz & Smit, 2024). The …

This study investigates how human resemblance in avatars shapes mind perception. Virtual worlds are often praised for their potential to transform how people collaborate, learn, and play. Yet this promise relies on our willingness to treat others in a genuinely human way. Mind perception theory defines …

Privacy concerns can potentially make camera-based object classification unsuitable for robot navigation. To address this problem, we propose a novel object classification system using only a 2D-LiDAR sensor on mobile robots. The proposed system enables semantic understanding of the environment by applying …

Dit onderzoek richt zich op de implementatie van sociale robotica in de zorg, met als doel inzicht te verkrijgen in de acceptatie, voordelen en uitdagingen van het gebruik van sociale robots binnen het ziekenhuis. De focus ligt op de manier waarop verpleegkundigen van de afdelingen cardiologie en traumachirurgie …

Demonstration project with the Robot Lab wall panel, made from residual wood It is the true eye-catcher of the restaurant at Bowling Leeuwarden: the wall with the wooden panels. The panels were designed at the Robot Lab of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) and are entirely made from …

Construction industry and interior architecture are increasingly using wood, driving up demand and depleting wood resources. Yet large quantities of uncontaminated, high-quality material end up burned or downcycled into chipboard, because it is too costly to manually sort and process large volumes of …

De scriptie beschrijft de ontwikkeling van een autonome onkruid­robot voor particuliere, verharde buitenruimten. Op basis van een eisen- en functiespecificatie werden verschillende bestrijdings­technieken afgewogen; een mechanisch borstel­principe werd gekozen vanwege effectiviteit en milieuvriendelijkheid. …

Collaborative robot arms (cobots) are gaining a strong foothold in contemporary manufacturing workplaces. While more information about the cobot’s impact becomes available, crucial design, work perception, performance, and strategic implications are systematically overlooked. Following a modern sociotechnical systems …

In this thesis, we focus on developing behaviours for socially interactive agents (SIAs). The context in which the agent is used is a self-regulated learning system for children. We focus on personalising learning objectives and interaction content within an intelligent tutoring system (ITS). We envision …

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