We present the design of the Snackbot, a robot that will deliver snacks in our university
buildings. The robot is intended to provide a useful, continuing service and to serve as a …

Creating and sustaining rapport between robots and people is critical for successful robotic
services. As a first step towards this goal, we explored a personalization strategy with a …

Human–Robot Interaction in Social Robotics explores important issues in designing a robot
system that works with people in everyday environments. Edited by leading figures in the …

Blossom is an open-source social robotics platform responding to three challenges in
human-robot interaction (HRI) research:(1) Designing, manufacturing, and programming …

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

Recent developments in robotics are potentially changing the nature of service, and
research in human-robot interaction has previously shown that humanoid robots could …

Researchers studying ways in which humans and robots interact in social settings have a
problem: they don't have a robot to use. There is a need for a socially expressive robot that …

This report reviews “socially interactive robots”: robots for which social human-robot
interaction is important. We begin by discussing the context for socially interactive robots …

The emerging market of personal service robots requires robots to play a beneficial role in
the daily lives of ordinary people. This application area, in particular, is driving research to …

This paper discusses the use of observational studies of human-robot social interaction in
open human-inhabited environments as a method for improving on the design and …