...Sheshadri Chatterjee Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors influencing the citizens to use robots that would improve the quality of life of the citizens. Design/methodology/approach With the help of different adoption theories and models and with the support...

... the approach. Furthermore, adaptive dynamics joint controller is extended to all the joints for complementing the biggish friction. Originality/value With the proposed adaptive Cartesian impedance control and the online path planner, the robot will be manipulation‐friendly in an unstructured environment...

...Myagmarbayar Nergui; Yuki Yoshida; Nevrez Imamoglu; Jose Gonzalez; Masashi Sekine; Wenwei Yu Purpose The aim of this paper is to develop autonomous mobile home healthcare robots, which are capable of observing patients’ motions, recognizing the patients’ behaviours based on observation data...