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Emcar: Embodied Controller for Animating Robots

2026-06-24 · 16:29 UTC ·Carlos Gomez Cubero, Elizabeth Jochum ·0 min read
Authors
Carlos Gomez Cubero, Elizabeth Jochum
Categories
cs.RO
arXiv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26008v1
PDF
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.26008v1

Brief

EMCAR is a no-code environment that uses puppetry and drawing metaphors to let artists and nontechnical users conceive, design, and program collaborative-robot motion. The approach reframes robot programming through embodied, artistic practices to expand creative HRI use cases and inclusivity, enabling broader participation in robotics research; summary based on the paper abstract and LNCS chapter listing.

Why it matters

EMCAR is a no-code software tool that programs collaborative-robot motion by leveraging artistic practices—specifically puppetry and drawing—to let artists design and animate robot interactions.

Key details

  • The platform aims to expand creative applications and inclusivity (enabling people with little or no technical background to engage in HRI); the work appears as an LNCS chapter (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-15501-6_11) and was posted to arXiv (2606.26008v1) on 2026-06-24.
Source evidence

Abstract

This chapter describes EMCAR, a novel software tool for programming robot motion that leverages the unique affordances of artistic practices such as puppetry and drawing to conceive, design, and program novel interactions and realize new use cases for HRI. The advantage of this no-code platform is that it expands creative applications for collaborative robots - putting robots directly in the hands of artists - and provides an inclusive environment that enables individuals with little or no technical backgrounds to engage meaningfully in collaborations and robotics research.

Comment: Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-15501-6_11