Natural Interaction with an Assistive Humanoid Robot

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This paper addresses the concept of “natural interaction”, defined as a way to interact in a simple, human-like and intuitive manner with personal assistive robots. A human-robot interaction system was developed for this purpose in order to provide means for expert and non-expert users to cooperate and interact with an assistant humanoid robot (Nao) operating in a domestic environment, allowing them to express their instructions as combinations of gestures and speech inputs.

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