Remote big data management tools, sensing and computing technologies, and visual perception and environment mapping algorithms in the Internet of Robotic …

M Andronie, G Lăzăroiu, OL Karabolevski… - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The purpose of our systematic review was to inspect the recently published research on
Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) and harmonize the assimilations it articulates on remote …

[HTML][HTML] A survey on the design and evolution of social robots—Past, present and future

H Mahdi, SA Akgun, S Saleh, K Dautenhahn - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite the relatively young age of Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) as a field, there is a
large volume of research on advances in robot hardware, software and behavior. The goal …

The CARESSES randomised controlled trial: exploring the health-related impact of culturally competent artificial intelligence embedded into socially assistive robots …

C Papadopoulos, N Castro, A Nigath… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
This trial represents the final stage of the CARESSES project which aimed to develop and
evaluate a culturally competent artificial intelligent system embedded into social robots to …

Gendered human–robot interactions in services

S Forgas-Coll, R Huertas-Garcia, A Andriella… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
The outbreak of Covid-19 precipitated the use of service robots in customer-facing services
as a replacement for employees to avoid human-to-human contact. However, this …

Conversational affective social robots for ageing and dementia support

MR Lima, M Wairagkar, M Gupta… - … on Cognitive and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Socially assistive robots (SAR) hold significant potential to assist older adults and people
with dementia in human engagement and clinical contexts by supporting mental health and …

Knowledge-grounded dialogue flow management for social robots and conversational agents

L Grassi, CT Recchiuto, A Sgorbissa - International Journal of Social …, 2022 - Springer
The article proposes a system for knowledge-based conversation designed for Social
Robots and other conversational agents. The proposed system relies on an Ontology for the …

Cloud Learning-based Meets Edge Model-based: Robots Don't Need to Build All the Submaps dItself

W Chen, D Huang, Y Pan, G Chen… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, significant progress has been made in learning-based VSLAM (Visual
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping). Cloud-based VSLAM is a promising solution for …

Sustainable cloud services for verbal interaction with embodied agents

L Grassi, CT Recchiuto, A Sgorbissa - Intelligent Service Robotics, 2023 - Springer
This article presents the design and the implementation of a cloud system for knowledge-
based autonomous interaction devised for Social Robots and other conversational agents …

Towards culture-aware co-speech gestures for social robots

A Gjaci, CT Recchiuto, A Sgorbissa - International Journal of Social …, 2022 - Springer
Embedding social robots with the capability of accompanying their sentences with natural
gestures may be the key to increasing their acceptability and their usage in real contexts …

Assessing emotions in human-robot interaction based on the appraisal theory

M Demutti, V D'Amato, C Recchiuto… - 2022 31st IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emotions have always played a crucial role in human evolution, improving not only social
contact but also their ability to adapt and react to a changing environment. In the field of …