A big challenge in human–robot interaction (HRI) is the design of autonomous robots that
collaborate effectively with humans, exposing behaviors similar to those exhibited by …

Cooperation between autonomous robots and humans is becoming more and more
demanding. Robots have to be able to capable of possessing and expose a wide range of …

Autonomy is crucial in cooperation. The complexity of HRI scenarios requires autonomous
robots able to exploit their superhuman computations (based on DNN, Machine Learning …

One of the main challenges of social robots concerns the ability to guarantee robust,
contextualized and intelligent behavior capable of supporting continuous and personalized …

Robots are no longer going to be isolated machines working in factory or merely research
platforms used in controlled lab environment. Very soon, robots will be the part of our day-to …

Developments in autonomous agents for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), particularly social,
are gathering pace. The typical approach to such efforts is to start with an application to a …

Enabling autonomous mobile manipulators to collaborate with people is a challenging
research field with a wide range of applications. Collaboration means working with a partner …

To interact and cooperate with humans in their daily-life activities, robots should exhibit
human-like “intelligence”. This skill will substantially emerge from the interconnection of all …

In recent years there has been an increasing interest in deploying robotic systems in public
environments able to effectively interact with people. To properly work in the wild, such …

The topic of joint actions has been deeply studied in the context of Human-Human
interaction in order to understand how humans cooperate. Creating autonomous robots that …