Towards an Interactive Humanoid Companion with Visual Tracking Modalities
Paulo J. Menezes, Frédéric Lerasle, Jorge M.M. Dias, Thierry Germ · 2007
The idea of robots acting as human companions is not a particularly new or original one. Since the notion of “robot ” was created, the idea of robots replacing humans in dangerous, dirty and dull activities has been inseparably tied with the fantasy of human-like robots being friends and existing side by side with humans. In 1989, Engelberger (Engelberger,