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Research article compendium : peace and conflict research ; The University of Barcelona, in collaboration with different Spanish and foreign institutions and universities, hosted an international workshop on the 'Sense and Scope of Autonomy in Emerging Military and Security Technologies', which took place in February 2017. This academic event paved the way to the elaboration of the present report, which contains a compendium of innovative articles written by experts on scientific, legal, diplomatic and military matters. All papers reflect a broad spectrum of views on how 'autonomy' can be understood in emerging military and security technologies and what their legal, technical, political and societal impacts are by building on discussions unfolded along a variety of reflective approaches. ; Peer Reviewed ; Postprint (published version)

Research article compendium : peace and conflict research ; The University of Barcelona, in collaboration with different Spanish and foreign institutions and universities, hosted an international workshop on the 'Sense and Scope of Autonomy in Emerging Military and Security Technologies', which took place in February 2017. This academic event paved the way to the elaboration of the present report, which contains a compendium of innovative articles written by experts on scientific, legal, diplomatic and military matters. All papers reflect a broad spectrum of views on how 'autonomy' can be understood in emerging military and security technologies and what their legal, technical, political and societal impacts are by building on discussions unfolded along a variety of reflective approaches. ; Peer Reviewed ; Postprint (published version)

The final publication is available at link.springer.com ; Assistive robots need to be able to perform a large number of tasks that imply some type of cloth manipulation. These tasks include domestic chores such as laundry handling or bed-making, among others, as well as dressing assistance to disabled users. Due to the deformable nature of fabrics, this manipulation requires a strong perceptual feedback. Common perceptual skills that enable robots to complete their cloth manipulation tasks are reviewed here, mainly relying on vision, but also resorting to touch and force. The use of such basic skills is then examined in the context of the different cloth manipulation tasks, be them garment-only applications in the line of performing domestic chores, or involving physical contact with a human as in dressing assistance. ; This work was developed in the context of the project CLOTHILDE ("CLOTH manIpulation Learning from DEmonstra-tions"), which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon2020research and innovation programme (Advanced Grant agreement No 741930). This work is supported by the Spanish StateResearch Agency through the Mar ́ıa de Maeztu Seal of Excellence to IRI (MDM-2016-065 ; Peer Reviewed ; Postprint (author's final draft)