Design, Development and Control of Robotic Hands with special characteristics.<BR>One of the most intense ambitions in robotic researches is to imitate a human hand, due to its several possible uses and its ability to interact with the enviroment.
Robot-assisted therapy is a from of physical therapy that uses a robotic device to help a person with physical impairment learn how to recover a lost function.
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Although advances in robotics have been undisputed for the past 50 years, robots made of rigid materials still have many limitations. Nowadays, there exists a new trend on biologically inspired robots with "soft" elements that are able to perform tasks which are not available to robots with rigid limbs. This new paradigm is known as Soft Robotics and is presented as an innovation beyond already existing flexible robots or other robots that include variable stiffness actuators (VSA).
Design and development of the software needed to control a humanoid robot; from a friendly and easy-to-use HMI to the embedded components to command all joints movement.
The new bio-inspired Automatic-Deliberative (AD) architecture is endowed with a decision making system based on biologically inspired concepts such as drives, motivation, emotions, and self-learning, improving the autonomy and the livingbeing behaviours.
Nowadays topological and semantic navigation is considered as the most human-close way of navigation for a mobile robot, which combines information and relation of the environment elements.
The robot needsto develop the humans communication skills in order to allow itsinteraction with them. One of these human skills is the human visionsystem,here we present our system called <em>Cognitive </em><em>Emotive</em><em>Visual System</em>.
The effort that we want to improve is focuses in the development of algorithms and techniques that allows an automatic adaptation of visual systems to changing environments