Maggie

Maggie is a personal social robot built by the Robotics Lab (University Carlos III of Madrid). It is a research platform to study human robot interaction and robot intelligence and autonomy.

Hello! my name is Maggie and everybody says that I am a very funny and clever robot. I was born in spring 2005. My fathers and mothers (oh yes, I have many of them!) say that my creation was a very hard process. It took almost two years. Here are some photos.

I am 1.4 m high. I can move my body, arms, head and eyes; and I can talk and recognise voice. I have many sensors: IR, US and laser range finders; TV cameras and tactile sensors on my body.

People can communicate with me by talking, using gestures and also touching me. I also have a touching screen on my chest.

I am very young and my skills are still very limited, but my parents are working hard to give me new capacities.

I am a personal robot. That means that I am a robot created to be close to people, to entertain and help them.

I love playing. My first public presentation took place in Campus Party 2005 and was broadcasted by many TV channels (see movies).

Pictures and movies

Books
- R.Barber; V.Egido; M.Malfaz; M.A.Salichs. Design and Control of Intelligent Robotic Systems. Chapter: Path planning inspired on emotional intelligence. pp.0-0. ISBN: 354026549X. Springer-Verlag. 2009.
- M.A.Salichs; R.Barber; M.Malfaz. The Industrial Electronics Handbook. Chapter: Mobile Robots. pp.0-0. ISBN: 0-8493-8343-9. IEEE Press. 2009.
- J.Salichs; A.Castro; M.A.Salichs. Progress in Robotics. Communications in Computer and Information Science 44. Chapter: Infrared Remote Control with a Social Robot. pp.86-95. ISBN: 978-3-642-03985. Springer. 2009.
- R.Pacheco; R.Barber; M.A.Salichs. Robots Personales y Asistenciales. Chapter: Desarrollo de un sistema de detecci¶on de caras y gestos para el robot personal Maggie. pp.77-96. ISBN: 978-84-691-3824. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. 2008.
- R.Rivas; R.Barber; A.Corrales; M.A.Salichs. Arquitecturas de Control para Robots.. Chapter: Arquitectura software de un robot personal. pp.101-115. ISBN: 978-84-7484-196. Universidad Polit¶ecnica de Madrid. 2007.
Journal publications
- M.Malfaz; M.A.Salichs. Using MUDs as an experimental platform for testing a decision making system for self-motivated autonomous agents.. Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour Journal. In press.. Vol. 0. No. . pp.0-0. 2008.
- A.M.Khamis; M.S.Kamel; M.A.Salichs. Human-Robot Interfaces for Social Interaction. International Journal of Robotics and Automation. Vol. 22. No. 3. pp.215-221. 2007.
Conference publications
- M.Malfaz; M.A.Salichs. The Use of Emotions in an Autonomous Agent’s Decision Making Process. Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems (EpiRob09). Venice. Italy. Nov, 2009.
- J.F.Gorostiza; M.A.Salichs. Teaching Sequences to a Social Robot by Voice Interaction. RO-MAN 09 : 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication . Toyama. Japan. Sep, 2009.
- J.Sánchez; A.Castro; M.A.Salichs. Infrared Remote Control with a Social Robot. FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2009. International Conference on Social Robotics. Incheon. Korea. Aug, 2009. Progress in Robotics. Communications in Computer and Information Science 44. ISBN: 978-3-642-03985. Springer. pp.86-95. 2009.
- M.Malfaz; M.A.Salichs. Learning to deal with objects. ICDL09: The 8th International Conference on Development and Learning . Shanghai. China. Jun, 2009.
- A.Castro; M.A.Salichs. Gestión de estados básicos para el robot Maggie. 4º Workshop RoboCity2030. Robots personales y asistenciales.. Leganés. Spain. Apr, 2008. Robots personales y asistenciales. ISBN: 978-84-691-3824. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. pp.41-58. 2008.
- A.Castro; E.Delgado; L.Cobos; M.A.Salichs. Habilidad de carga de batería Automática para un robot personal. Jornadas Nacionales de Automática. Huelva. Spain. Sep, 2007.
- A.Corrales; R.Rivas; M.A.Salichs. Sistema de identificación de objetos mediante RFID para un robot personal. Jornadas de Automática. Huelva. España. Sep, 2007. . ISBN: 978-84-690-7497. Comité Español de Automática. pp.0-0. 2007.
- R.Rivas; A.Corrales; R.Barber; M.A.Salichs. Robot Skill Abstraction for AD Architecture . 6th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles IAV 2007. Toulouse. 2007. Sep, 2007.
- R.Rivas; A.Corrales; R.Barber; M.A.Salichs. Arquitectura software de un robot personal. Robocity2030. Madrid. España. Feb, 2007. Arquitecturas de control para robots. ISBN: 978-84-7484-196. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. pp.101-115. 2007.
- J.F.Gorostiza; R.Barber; A.M.Khamis; M.Malfaz; R.Pacheco; R.Rivas; A.Corrales; E.Delgado; M.A.Salichs. Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction Framework for a Personal Robot. RO-MAN 06: The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. Hatfield. United Kingdom. Sep, 2006.
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Updated on 2006-04-17 by Miguel A. Salichs

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