Emanuele Concas's research while affiliated with Università degli studi di Cagliari and other places

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A lot of people have neuromuscular problems that affect their lives leading them to lose an important degree of autonomy in their daily activities. When their disabilities do not involve speech disorders, robotic wheelchairs with voice assistant technologies may provide appropriate human–robot interaction for them. Given the wide improvement and di...
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Recent developments and advancements in several areas of Computer Science such as Semantic Web, Natural Language Understanding, Knowledge Representation, and more in general Artificial Intelligence have enabled to develop automatic and smart systems able to address various challenges and tasks. In this paper, we present a scalable and flexible huma...

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... One advantage they have is their flexibility to be integrated with social media, messaging apps, and so on. Conversely, voice-based chatbots [30], [31] are able to recognize human speech and respond with synthetized speech. Some examples are personal assistants, such as Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri from Apple, and Cortana from Microsoft. ...
... Besides the classical elementary robots (such as wheeled robots 2 ), the robotics field has seen the emergence of sophisticated humanoid robots that, thanks to their human-like morphology, are well-suited to operate in shared environments with humans for different jobs [4,16,17,22,36,37]. Well known examples of such robotic humanoid platforms are NAO 3 , Asimo 4 , Atlas 5 , iCub 6 , Valkyrie 7 . ...