Purpose – The aim of this paper is to provide a review of recent developments in the application of swarm intelligence to robotics. Design/methodology/approach – This paper initially considers swarm intelligence and then discusses its application to robotics through reference to a number of...

Purpose – This paper's aim is to assess the practical advances resulting from progress in artificial intelligence affecting vision‐equipped robots. Design/methodology/approach – A short history of artificial intelligence applied to robotic hand‐eye coordination is followed by a...

Purpose – This paper aims to give an overview of a dialogue manager and recent experiments with multimodal human‐robot dialogues. Design/methodology/approach – The paper identifies requirements and solutions in the design of a human‐robot interface. The paper presents essential...