Assistive robots

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Are Social Robots Effective in Robot-Assisted Interventions for Social Anxiety?

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Are Social Robots Effective in Robot-Assisted Interventions for Social Anxiety?

Last month, the University of Waterloo (Samira Rasouli, Garima Gupta, Elizabeth Nilsen & Kerstin Dautenhahn) published a paper on the effectiveness of social robots for clinicians and patients in Robot-Assisted Interventions for Social Anxiety. They used MiRo and a range of social robots in their study.

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Can Robots Care?

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Can Robots Care?

Looking for a fun exhibition for the New Year? Come and visit MiRo at the prestigious Thackray Museum of Medicine! The playful ‘Can Robots care?’ exhibition offers visitors the chance to explore a range of robots designed to care for humans.

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Meet the coders that are helping MiRo to become a better robot

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Meet the coders that are helping MiRo to become a better robot

We all have an innate desire to help others, be it helping someone cross the road, giving directions or being a shoulder to cry on. How do you like to personally help others? How about throwing a social robot into the mix and training MiRo to help people?

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Train MiRo To Help People and WIN a MiRo-E!

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Train MiRo To Help People and WIN a MiRo-E!

In partnership with Discovery STEM and Innovation World, we’re excited to be bring you the GIFT Challenge for your chance to WIN a MiRo-E and more!

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MiRo for Research: Small Robots with Big Tasks

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MiRo for Research: Small Robots with Big Tasks

Professor of Computer Science Lynne Baille and her team at Heriot-Watt University have been investigating the use of MiRo for a fall alert. Read on to learn about their approach for human-centered robot interaction (HRI) research.