IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine - March 2018 - 1

Vol. 25, No. 1 MARCH 2018
ISSN 1070-9932
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Themes
Ethics for Robots as Experimental Technologies

Pairing Anticipation with Exploration to Evaluate
the Social Impact of Robotics

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By Francesco Amigoni and Viola Schiaffonati

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MATE Robots Simplifying My Work

The Benefits and Socioethical Implications

By Valeria Villani, Lorenzo Sabattini, Julia N. Czerniak,
Alexander Mertens, and Cesare Fantuzzi

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Overtrust of Pediatric health-Care robots

A Preliminary Survey of Parent Perspectives

By Jason Borenstein, Alan R. Wagner, and Ayanna Howard

FeaTures
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The PAN-Robots Project

Advanced Automated Guided Vehicle Systems for Industrial Logistics

By Lorenzo Sabattini, Mika Aikio, Patric Beinschob, Markus Boehning, Elena Cardarelli,
Valerio Digani, Annette Krengel, Massimiliano Magnani, Szilard Mandici, Fabio Oleari,
Christoph Reinke, Davide Ronzoni, Christian Stimming, Robert Varga, Andrei Vatavu,
Sergi Castells Lopez, Cesare Fantuzzi, Aki Mäyrä, Sergiu Nedevschi, Cristian Secchi,
and Kay Fuerstenberg

AbouT ThESE covERS
This issue of IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM)
focuses on the use of socioethical approaches to robotics development. It is published in cooperation with IEEE
Technology and Society Magazine (T&S), which is publishing
a special issue this month on social implications with robots.
Members of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of
Technology will receive complimentary electronic access to
RAM for this issue only, and members of the IEEE Robotics
and Automation Society will receive complimentary electronic
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A Standard for Map Data Representation

IEEE 1873-2015 Facilitates Interoperability Between Robots
By Francesco Amigoni, Wonpil Yu, Torsten Andre, Dirk Holz,
Martin Magnusson, Matteo Matteucci, Hyungpil Moon,
Masashi Yokotsuka, Geoffrey Biggs, and Raj Madhavan

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Simplifying Telerobotics

Wearability and Teleimpedance Improve Human-Robot
Interactions in Teleoperation

By Simone Fani, Simone Ciotti, Manuel G. Catalano, Giorgio Grioli,
Alessandro Tognetti, Gaetano Valenza, Arash Ajoudani, and Matteo Bianchi

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build Your own visual-Inertial Drone

A Cost-Effective and Open-Source Autonomous Drone

By Inkyu Sa, Mina Kamel, Michael Burri, Michael Bloesch,
Raghav Khanna, Marija Popovi´c, Juan Nieto, and Roland Siegwart

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