The lack of shared community social robot platform has been one of the main reasons that
made scalable and replicable research activities in human-robot interaction (HRI) and …

The advances in Robotics offer exciting opportunities for robots to become socially
collaborative technologies. But are we ready for and are the robots capable of enabling a …

Today, off-the-shelf social robots are used increasingly in the HRI community to research
social interactions with different target user groups across a range of domains (eg …

The goal of this bachelor's thesis was to explore practical applications of the KUKA iDo
service robots by improving their accessibility in human-robot interaction research. The …

Ono is a low cost DIY reproducible social robot designed to make large scale human-robot
interaction (HRI) studies more feasible financially, as well as to make social robotics …

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

One of the major obstacles in the study of HRI (human-robot interaction) with social robots is
the lack of multiple identical robots that allow testing with large user groups. Often, the price …

Many robots capable of performing social behaviors have recently been developed for
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) studies. These social robots are applied in various domains …

Social robotics is increasingly used in healthcare and well-being scenarios, addressing
various care needs. Evaluating these robots on a large scale involves challenges, such as …

The fields of Social Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction are undergoing rapid growth,
motivated by important societal challenges facing the general public such as aging in place …