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.