Issue 3/2025 Special Issue on Robot Avatars for Telepresence and Social Interaction
Content (11 Articles)
Editorial Note from the Publisher
- Editorial Note
NimbRo Wins ANA Avatar XPRIZE Immersive Telepresence Competition: Human-Centric Evaluation and Lessons Learned
- Open Access
Christian Lenz, Max Schwarz, Andre Rochow, Bastian Pätzold, Raphael Memmesheimer, Michael Schreiber, Sven Behnke
Is the Robot Spying on me? A Study on Perceived Privacy in Telepresence Scenarios in a Care Setting with Mobile and Humanoid Robots
- Open Access
Celia Nieto Agraz, Pascal Hinrichs, Marco Eichelberg, Andreas Hein
Intuitive and Interactive Robotic Avatar System for Tele-Existence: TEAM SNU in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals
- Open Access
Beomyeong Park, Donghyeon Kim, Daegyu Lim, Suhan Park, Junewhee Ahn, Seungyeon Kim, Jaeyong Shin, Eunho Sung, Jaehoon Sim, Junhyung Kim, Myeong-Ju Kim, Junhyeok Cha, Gyeongjae Park, Hokyun Lee, Seungbin You, Keunwoo Jang, Seung-Hun Kim, Mathew Schwartz, Jaeheung Park
Practical Approaches Towards Transparent and Stable Bilateral Teleoperation Under Time-Varying Network Delay
- Open Access
Chunpeng Wang, Rui Luo, John Peter Whitney, Taskin Padir
Immersive Commodity Telepresence with the AVATRINA Robot Avatar
Joao Marcos Correia Marques, Patrick Naughton, Jing-Chen Peng, Yifan Zhu, James Seungbum Nam, Qianxi Kong, Xuanpu Zhang, Aman Penmetcha, Ruifan Ji, Nairen Fu, Vignesh Ravibaskar, Ryan Yan, Neil Malhotra, Kris Hauser
Extrovert or Introvert? GAN-Based Humanoid Upper-Body Gesture Generation for Different Impressions
- Open Access
Bowen Wu, Chaoran Liu, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Jiaqi Shi, Hiroshi Ishiguro
Analysis and Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition
Kris Hauser, Eleanor ‘Nell’ Watson, Joonbum Bae, Josh Bankston, Sven Behnke, Bill Borgia, Manuel G. Catalano, Stefano Dafarra, Jan B. F. van Erp, Thomas Ferris, Jeremy Fishel, Guy Hoffman, Serena Ivaldi, Fumio Kanehiro, Abderrahmane Kheddar, Gaëlle Lannuzel, Jacquelyn Ford Morie, Patrick Naughton, Steve NGuyen, Paul Oh, Taskin Padir, Jim Pippine, Jaeheung Park, Jean Vaz, Daniele Pucci, Peter Whitney, Peggy Wu, David Locke
Usability of a Robot Avatar Designed for the Real World: The Alter-Ego X Case Study
- Open Access
Grazia Zambella, Giorgio Grioli, Andrea Cavaliere, Giovanni Rosato, Cristiano Petrocelli, Mattia Poggiani, Manuel Barbarossa, Gianluca Lentini, Emanuele Sessa, Vinicio Tincani, Antonio Bicchi, Manuel G. Catalano
Try to See it My Way: Humans Take the Level-1 Visual Perspective of Humanoid Robot Avatars
- Open Access
- Original research
Basil Wahn, Leda Berio, Matthias Weiss, Albert Newen
A Cybernetic Avatar System to Embody Human Telepresence for Connectivity, Exploration, and Skill Transfer
Rafael Cisneros-Limón, Antonin Dallard, Mehdi Benallegue, Kenji Kaneko, Hiroshi Kaminaga, Pierre Gergondet, Arnaud Tanguy, Rohan Pratap Singh, Leyuan Sun, Yang Chen, Carole Fournier, Guillaume Lorthioir, Masato Tsuru, Sélim Chefchaouni-Moussaoui, Yukiko Osawa, Guillaume Caron, Kevin Chappellet, Mitsuharu Morisawa, Adrien Escande, Ko Ayusawa, Younes Houhou, Iori Kumagai, Michio Ono, Koji Shirasaka, Shiryu Wada, Hiroshi Wada, Fumio Kanehiro, Abderrahmane Kheddar
