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 …

1 IntroductionSocial robots have great potential to provide social, behavioral, emotional, and
cognitive support to people with diverse characteristics and needs. Although still in its …

Socially-enabled digital technologies have attracted academic interest for decades, with
recent commercial examples of Siri and Alexa, capturing public attention. However, despite …

Socially assistive robotics (SAR) is a new subfield of robotics that bridges HRI, rehabilitation
robotics, social robotics, and service robotics. SAR focuses on developing machines …

Despite promises about the near-term potential of social robots to share our daily lives, they
remain unable to form autonomous, lasting, and engaging relationships with humans. Many …

Service robots with social intelligence are starting to be integrated into our everyday lives.
The robots are intended to help improve aspects of quality of life as well as improve …

As socially interactive robots move out of the lab and “into the wild,” the systems being
developed are shifting from being generaluse, research-focused platforms to application …

While research and development related to robotics has been going on for decades, the
past decade in particular has seen a marked increase in related efforts, in part due to …

The social robotics market is appealing yet challenging. Though social robots are built few
remain on the market for long. Many reasons account for their short lifespan with costs and …

The recent years witnessed a significant increase of interest in social robots whose main aim
is to assist human users in their social and home environment. In academia, numerous …