The Future of Humanoid Robots

This book provides state of the art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the field of humanoid robotics and its applications. It is expected that humanoids will change the way we interact with machines, and will have the ability to blend perfectly into an environment already designed for humans. The book contains chapters that aim to discover the future abilities of humanoid robots by presenting a variety of integrated research in various scientific and engineering fields, such as locomotion, perception, adaptive behavior, human-robot interaction, neuroscience and machine learning. The book is designed to be accessible and practical, with an emphasis on useful information to those working in the fields of robotics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, computational methods and other fields of science directly or indirectly related to the development and usage of future humanoid robots. The editor of the book has extensive R&D experience, patents, and publications in the area of humanoid robotics, and his experience is reflected in editing the content of the book

The healthcare and motivation seat : a survey with the GewoS chair

The demographic change in the world’s population raises new problems for healthcare, such as rising costs for caretaking on elderly people. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) aims at assisting elderly people through technical equipment to manage their daily tasks in their own homes. One of the important approaches is to monitoring vital parameters without actually sending nursing staff to the person in need of care. Additionally, by including motivational factors (e.g. sports and fitness programs), the person’s health state can be influenced. In this paper, we present a survey within a group of elderly people aged between 40 and 70 years, which is representative for the end-user group the GewoS Chair is designed for. Furthermore, we will discuss the elderly people’s behavior when dealing with new technologies and systems improving further attempts on this target group.Godkänd; 2012; 20121012 (matkra