Recent studies have shown that children with autism may be interested in playing with an
interactive robot. Moreover, the robot can engage these children in ways that demonstrate …

Given the tremendous potential and influence of artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic
decision‐making (DM), these systems have found wide‐ranging applications across diverse …

Global demographics trend toward an aging population. Hence, there will be an increased
social demand for elderly care. Recently, assistive technologies such as service robots have …

There is a confidence crisis in many scientific disciplines, in particular disciplines
researching human behavior, as many effects of original experiments have not been …

Difficulties with social interaction characterise children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and
have a negative impact in their everyday life. Integrating a social-humanoid robot within the …

Many robot-delivered health interventions aim to support people longitudinally at home to
complement or replace in-clinic treatments. However, there is little guidance on how robots …

Socially assistive robotics (SAR) aims at designing robots capable of guaranteeing social
interaction to human users in a variety of assistance scenarios that range, eg, from giving …

Physical and cognitive training can maintain and improve older adults' independence and
quality of life. Given the demographic growth of the older adult population and the shortage …

The communication channels between physiotherapists and patients are many and varied.
Rehabilitation robots are able to deliver intensive treatments and improve the patient's …

In this work, an online survey was used to understand the acceptability of humanoid robots
and users' needs in using these robots to assist with care among people with Alzheimer's …