📄️ Chapter 27: Voice-to-Action Systems
This chapter introduces voice-to-action systems, covering voice interfaces in robotics, speech recognition using OpenAI Whisper, audio processing and preprocessing, multi-language support, handling background noise, and real-time speech-to-text implementation on robots.
📄️ Chapter 28: Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Robotics
This chapter focuses on natural language processing (NLP) for robotics, including fundamental NLP concepts, intent recognition, semantic parsing, entity extraction, object identification, handling ambiguous instructions, multi-turn conversation memory, and strategies for error recovery and clarification.
📄️ Chapter 29: Cognitive Planning with Large Language Models (LLMs)
This chapter addresses cognitive planning with Large Language Models (LLMs), demonstrating how natural language can be translated into action sequences, task decomposition, sub-goal generation, chain-of-thought reasoning, prompt engineering for robotic tasks, planning under constraints, and executing multi-step actions.
📄️ Chapter 30: Multi-Modal Interaction Design
This chapter explores multi-modal interaction design, combining voice, vision, and gesture for more natural human-robot communication, gesture recognition and interpretation, facial expression and emotion detection, building contextual understanding from multiple modalities, user intent inference, and designing intuitive human-robot conversations.
📄️ Chapter 31: Personality and Emotional Intelligence in Robots
This chapter covers personality and emotional intelligence in robots, including designing robot personalities, emotion state machines, context-aware responses, building emotional models, predicting human behavior, and creating robots that are likeable, trustworthy, and engaging.
📄️ Quickstart: Getting Started with Conversational Robotics
This quickstart guide provides a brief introduction to understanding and conceptually experimenting with Conversational Robotics systems. Due to the diverse nature of implementing human-robot interaction, specific installation and execution steps can vary greatly depending on the chosen robotic platform and software frameworks. This guide focuses on the general approach and directs you to where to find detailed, up-to-date instructions.