Robotic services, which have started to appear in urban environments, are going to transform our society. Designers of these robots are not only required to meet technical and legal challenges, but also address the potential social, political, and ethical consequences of their design choices. In this …

De EU investeert fors in de ontwikkeling van robotica. Europa heeft drie sectoren aangeduid waarin zij een groot potentieel voorzien als belangrijke toepassingsmarkten voor robotica, namelijk de maakindustrie, de gezondheidszorg en de agrarische sector (euRobotics aisbl, 2013). Ook binnen Nederland leeft …

Robot tutors provide new opportunities for education. However, they also introduce moral challenges. This study reports a systematic literature re-view (N = 256) aimed at identifying the moral considerations related to ro-bots in education. While our findings suggest that robot tutors hold great potential …

This study aimed (1) to examine the contribution of robot ZORA in achieving therapeutic and educational goals in rehabilitation and special education for children with severe physical disabilities, and (2) to discover the roles professionals attribute to robot ZORA when it is used in robot-based play …

De Nederlandse maakindustrie heeft momenteel te maken met een aantal belangrijke ontwikkelingen. De Nederlandse economie zit in hoogconjunctuur wat een toename van het aantal orders met zich meebrengt (CBS, 2017a). Bedrijven hebben echter moeite om deze orders bij te kunnen houden, mede door onvoldoende …

Abstract Long-haul travel does not constitute an obstacle for tourists to travel and is fast gaining the attention of tourists in new and unique experiences. This study was conducted to identify the long-haul travel motivation by international tourists to Penang. A total of 400 respondents participated …

Project Mario Lectoraat Mechatronica

Paper presented at Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap

From the pubisher's website: This paper aims to chart the (moral) values from a robotic industry's perspective regarding the introduction of robots in education. To our knowledge, no studies thus far have addressed this perspective in considering the moral values within this robotic domain. However, …

The author illustrates how partial and soft decisions are aggregated via non-linear schemes. Fuzzy logic is used to formally describe sensor fusion. Although intuitively appealing, one may conclude that data fusion has not yet brought about the expected breakthrough. Several explanations for this can …