Robot Intelligence for Real World Applications

This paper presents a brief review on recent work on machine intelligence for real-world applications of robots. To act in a real world environment, a robot should possess a broad sense of intelligence including speech, perception, reasoning, action, etc. In this paper, we particularly deal with the intelligence involving action or body motion. The intelligence related to robot action/motion can be classified into two categories: manipulation intelligence and mobility intelligence. The manipulation intelligence means the skill/intelligence of reliably manipulating objects according to tasks and the mobility intelligence corresponds to the ability of autonomously moving, or flying, and or jumping in a natural environment. Human-robot interaction is another important topic for real-world applications. In addition to reviewing the major approaches, this paper also gives an overview on our efforts in these important topics.