A system aimed at facilitating the interaction between a human user and an humanoid robot
is presented. The system is suited to answer questions about laboratories activities, people …

The demand for socially interactive robots has increased annually. In particular, service
robots have invaded homes and worked directly with humans who, in general, are not …

The paper presents a framework allowing a robot to socially interact with human beings,
sharing with them some basilar cognitive mechanisms. Robust sensing of the environment …

Is it possible to integrate a humanoid social robot into the work processes or customer care
in an official environment, eg in municipal offices? If so, what could such an application …

In this paper, we present a robotic shopping assistant, designed with a cognitive
architecture, grounded in machine learning systems, in order to study how the human-robot …

In this paper we will propose the use of social robots as interface between users and
services in a Smart Environment. We will focus on the need for a robot to recognize the …

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

A basic goal in human–robot interaction is to establish such a communication mode
between the two parties that the humans perceive it as effective and natural; effective in the …

This work contributes to the social robotics area by defining an architecture, called Cognitive
Model Development Environment (CMDE) that models the interaction between cognitive …

An agent's ability to perceive the world and its physical capabilities impact its communicative
modalities. Moreover, the sensing and processing (ie, interpretation) abilities of the user …