Robots are increasingly envisaged as our future cohabitants. However, while considerable
progress has been made in recent years in terms of their technological realization, the ability …

Highlights•We review the cognitive processes supporting mind attribution to animals.•Mind
attributions result from a set of automatic and reflective processes.•Autonomously moving …

Automatic imitation is the finding that movement execution is facilitated by compatible and
impeded by incompatible observed movements. In the past 15 years, automatic imitation has …

Understanding the mechanisms and consequences of attributing socialness to artificial
agents has important implications for how we can use technology to lead more productive …

Given recent technological developments in robotics, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality,
it is perhaps unsurprising that the arrival of emotionally expressive and reactive artificial …

In the last decade, the objectives outlined by the needs of personal robotics have led to the
rise of new biologically-inspired techniques for arm motion planning. This paper presents a …

As the field of social robotics has been dynamically growing and expanding over various
areas of research and application, in which robots can be of assistance and companionship …

As robots are starting to become part of our daily lives, they must be able to cooperate in a
natural and efficient manner with humans to be socially accepted. Human-like morphology …

In social interactions, we rely on nonverbal cues like gaze direction to understand the
behavior of others. How we react to these cues is affected by whether they are believed to …

Highlights•People tend to ascribe agency to embodied AI.•Only humans trigger the
attribution of both agency and experience.•People are most likely to attribute mind to AI that …