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Can a humanoid social robot stimulate the interactivity of cognitively impaired elderly? A thorough study based on computer vision methods
Social Assistive Robotics is increasingly being used in care settings to provide psychosocial support and interventions for the elderly with...
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Exploring Changes in Social Distance and Participant Discomfort with Virtual Robot Head and Visual Familiarity
This paper investigates whether there exist social distances when interacting with human-like or animal-like 3D models displayed stereoscopically... -
The Social Robot Expectation Gap Evaluation Framework
Social robots are designed in manners that encourage users to interact and communicate with them in socially appropriate ways, which implies that... -
Robot knowledge analysis based on cognitive computing and modular neural network feature combination
With the ongoing integration of information technology and industrialization, strategic emerging industries are becoming an increasingly important...
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Gaze-Aware Social Interaction Techniques for Human-Robot Collaborative Shop**
Robots that provide customer service in physical stores are being researched as a means of coexisting with people in everyday situations. One issue... -
Composite Emotion Recognition and Feedback of Social Assistive Robot for Elderly People
As the world’s population ages, the issue of medical care and daily care for the elderly population is becoming more and more critical. While there... -
Constraint trajectory planning for redundant space robot
In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid heuristic algorithm, particle swarm optimization, and whale optimization algorithm (PSO–WOA), to solve a...
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Is a Humorous Robot More Trustworthy?
As more and more social robots are being used for collaborative activities with humans, it is crucial to investigate mechanisms to facilitate trust... -
Exploiting virtual reality and the robot operating system to remote-control a humanoid robot
The availability of frameworks and applications in the robotic domain fostered in the last years a spread in the adoption of robots in daily life...
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Robot Autonomy vs. Human Autonomy: Social Robots, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Nature of Autonomy
Social robots are robots that can interact socially with humans. As social robots and the artificial intelligence (AI) that powers them becomes more...
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RoboRecycle Buddy: Enhancing Early Childhood Green Education and Recycling Habits Through Playful Interaction with a Social Robot
The escalating environmental challenges faced by our world today make it imperative to instill eco-friendly habits and environmental awareness in... -
Exploring the interaction strategy and release timing for robot-to-human handovers with manually guided motion
Object handover is one of the fundamental tasks of service robots. This paper focuses on a robot-to-human object handover controller applied to a...
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Adaptive Terrain Spider UWB Following Delivery Robot Based on Spring Suspension and Edge Computing
This paper presents a spider-type transport robot that can adapt to the complex environment of construction sites. The robot consists of a...
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Using Augmented Reality and a Social Robot to Teach Geography in Primary School
In recent years new and innovative technologies have been introduced in many sectors, including the field of Education. Augmented Reality (AR) can be... -
Active Participatory Social Robot Design Using Mind Perception Attributes
The Build-A-Bot online platform has been developed with the goal to enable active participatory design and broaden the participation in social robot... -
Collective gradient perception with a flying robot swarm
In this paper, we study the problem of collective and emergent sensing with a flying robot swarm in which social interactions among individuals lead...
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Reflex or Reflection? The Oculomotor Behavior of the Companion Robot, Creating the Impression of Communicating with an Emotional Being
AbstractThe control system of the F-2 companion robot implements a competitive system of rules (scenarios) to model the robot’s reactions to a wide...
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An adaptive decision-making system supported on user preference predictions for human–robot interactive communication
Adapting to dynamic environments is essential for artificial agents, especially those aiming to communicate with people interactively. In this...
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Data-Driven Generation of Eyes and Head Movements of a Social Robot in Multiparty Conversation
Given the importance of gaze in Human-Robot Interactions (HRI), many gaze control models have been developed. However, these models are mostly built... -
Implementing Pro-social Rule Bending in an Elder-Care Robot Environment
Many ethical issues arise when robots are introduced into elder-care settings. When ethically charged situations occur, robots ought to be able to...