Over the last few decades, semi-autonomous machine's technology started to promote
awareness towards the importance of human–robot interaction (HRI) for improving daily …

Research in robotics and human-robot interaction is becoming more and more mature.
Additionally, more affordable social robots are being released commercially. Thus, industry …

Socially interactive robots are expected to have an increasing importance in human society.
For social robots to provide long-term added value to people's lives, it is of major importance …

Social robotics is an emerging field with a high level of innovation. For many years, it was a
concept framed in the literature and theoretical approaches. Scientific and technological …

Industry 4.0 has ushered in a new era of process automation, thus redefining the role of
people and altering existing workplaces into unknown formats. The number of robots in the …

To promote the acceptance of robots in society, it is crucial to design systems exhibiting
adaptive behavior. This is particularly needed in various social domains (eg, cultural …

For social robots, like in all other digitally interactive systems, products, services, and
devices, positive user experience (UX) is necessary in order to achieve the intended …

In the age of the Internet of Things (IoT), the combination of robotics and artificial intelligence
has paved the way for the development of social robots able to undertake realistic …

The development of socially interactive robots is expected to have an increasing importance
in everyday life for a growing number of people. For social robots to provide long-term …

This study aimed to develop and evaluate an application scenario for the use of a social
robot, following a human-centered design approach. The social robot, which assisted the …