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Abstract

This paper describes a long-term project to install socially interactive, autonomous mobile robots in public spaces. We have deployed four robots over the last three years, accumulating a total operational time of about six years. We introduce the robots, then focus on the lessons learned from one deployment to the next. The evolution of the robot-human interface is of particular interest, although other aspects of the robots' operations are briefly described.

Notes

Associated Center(s) / Consortia: Vision and Autonomous Systems Center

Associated Lab(s) / Group(s): CREATE: Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment

Text Reference

Thomas Willeke, Clay Kunz, and Illah Nourbakhsh, "The history of the Mobot museum robot series: An Evolutionary Study," Proceedings of FLAIRS 2001, May, 2001.

BibTeX Reference

@inproceedings{Nourbakhsh_2001_3914,
   author = "Thomas Willeke and Clay Kunz and Illah Nourbakhsh",
   title = "The history of the Mobot museum robot series: An Evolutionary Study",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of FLAIRS 2001",
   month = "May",
   year = "2001",
}

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