In many future joint-action scenarios, humans and robots will have to interact physically in
order to successfully cooperate. Ideally, seamless human-robot interaction should not …

It is envisioned that in the near future personal mobile robots will be assisting people in their
daily lives. An essential characteristic shaping the design of personal robots is the fact that …

Autonomous mobile robots that operate in environments with people are expected to be
able to deal with human proxemics and social distances. Previous research investigated …

Abstract Current guidelines for Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) allow a person to be
within the working area of an industrial robot arm whilst maintaining their physical safety …

ABSTRACT A safe and flexible co-operation between robot and operator may be a
promising way to achieve better productivity at the manual workplace. Thus, robot assistants …

For realizing a robot working in human society, interaction with humans is the key issue. We
have developed a robot that interacts with humans based on visual recognition. This robot …

As high-speed, agile robots become more commonplace, these robots will have the
potential to better aid and collaborate with humans. However, due to the increased agility …

Growing interest in industrial human-robot interaction (HRI) applications makes it necessary
to look deeper into the design of systems, where humans collaborate, interact, or at least …

The authors claim that a careful examination of robotics science and technology from its
origins in the 1950s to its current status reveals that such progress, albeit very important …

The design of robot motion is one of the most important questions in social robotics as it
underpins successful human–robot interaction. Human-inspired motion design based on …