Humanoid robots consist of biologically inspired features, human-like appearance, and
intelligent behavior that naturally elicit social responses. Complex interactions are now …

Robots increasingly have the potential to interact with people in daily life. It is believed that,
based on this ability, they will play an essential role in human society in the not-so-distant …

Therapeutic and educational applications of robots have created a demand for robots
showing a number of social skills. These skills include the capacity to imitate, to learn from …

Several studies have indicated that interacting with social robots in educational contexts
may lead to a greater learning than interactions with computers or virtual agents. As such, an …

Interactive robots participating in our daily lives should have the fundamental ability to
socially communicate with humans. In this paper, we propose a mechanism for two social …

This study examined the affordances of an embodied humanoid robot to engage children in
play and learning from the perspective of embodied cognition in two studies as part of …

Social robots are innovative new technologies that have considerable potential to support
children's education as tutors and learning companions. Given this potential, it behooves us …

This work investigates young children's perceptions of social robots in a learning context.
Because social robots are a relatively new technology, direct comparison to more familiar …

An approach to the design of learning environments where a social robot plays a role of a
teacher is discussed in this study. Built-in robot functionalities provide a degree of situational …

While Reinforcement Learning (RL) is not traditionally designed for interactive supervisory
input from a human teacher, several works in both robot and software agents have adapted …