Social cognition for human-robot symbiosis—challenges and building blocks

G Sandini, V Mohan, A Sciutti, P Morasso - Frontiers in neurorobotics, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The next generation of robot companions or robot working partners will need to satisfy social
requirements somehow similar to the famous laws of robotics envisaged by Isaac Asimov …

Humanizing human-robot interaction: On the importance of mutual understanding

A Sciutti, M Mara, V Tagliasco… - IEEE Technology and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In conjunction with what is often called the industry 4.0, the new machine age, or the rise of
the robots, the authors of this paper have each experienced the following phenomenon. At …

Foundation for a classification of collaboration levels for human-robot cooperation in manufacturing

A Kolbeinsson, E Lagerstedt… - … & Manufacturing Research, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Industry 4.0 aims to support the factory of the future, involving increased use of information
systems and new ways of using automation, such as collaboration where a robot and a …

Temporal action localization in the deep learning era: A survey

B Wang, Y Zhao, L Yang, T Long… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The temporal action localization research aims to discover action instances from untrimmed
videos, representing a fundamental step in the field of intelligent video understanding. With …

Interacting with robots to investigate the bases of social interaction

A Sciutti, G Sandini - IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Humans show a great natural ability at interacting with each other. Such efficiency in joint
actions depends on a synergy between planned collaboration and emergent coordination, a …

The ANEMONE: theoretical foundations for UX evaluation of action and intention recognition in human-robot interaction

J Lindblom, B Alenljung - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The coexistence of robots and humans in shared physical and social spaces is expected to
increase. A key enabler of high-quality interaction is a mutual understanding of each other's …

The effects of selected object features on a pick-and-place task: A human multimodal dataset

L Lastrico, V Belcamino, A Carfì… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
We propose a dataset to study the influence of object-specific characteristics on human pick-
and-place movements and compare the quality of the motion kinematics extracted by …

Human motion understanding for selecting action timing in collaborative human-robot interaction

F Rea, A Vignolo, A Sciutti, N Noceti - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In the industry of the future, so as in healthcare and at home, robots will be a familiar
presence. Since they will be working closely with human operators not always properly …

Humane robots—from robots with a humanoid body to robots with an anthropomorphic mind

G Sandini, A Sciutti - ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Since long ago, humans have always dreamt (or had nightmares) and speculated about
having robots able to behave and relate to them as if they were humans (Asimov 1950; …

Emerging roles for social robots in rehabilitation: current directions

A Langer, S Levy-Tzedek - ACM Transactions on Human-Robot …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Emerging Roles for Social Robots in Rehabilitation: Current Directions Page 1 30 Emerging
Roles for Social Robots in Rehabilitation: Current Directions ALLISON LANGER, Perelman …