Studies show dramatic increase in elderly population of Western Europe over the next few
decades, which will put pressure on healthcare systems. Measures must be taken to meet …

Recently there has been more attention to the cultural aspects of social robots. This paper
contributes to this effort by offering a philosophical, in particular Wittgensteinian framework …

Studies foresee a dramatic increase in the elderly population of Western Europe over the
next decades, putting pressure on healthcare systems. Healthcare robots are developed to …

Social robots are a new technology designed to help and support people in a variety of
domains, including healthcare, workplaces, transportation, education, and entertainment …

In the present study, infants between 4 and 6 months of age were observed in daycare
centers, either on their own or in the presence of another infant. Our goal was to explore the …

This report documents the history of research on AI rights and other moral consideration of
artificial entities. It highlights key intellectual influences on this literature as well as research …

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics are trending domains these days. Week after week, there
are new impressive videos of robots who are walking, running or flipping, and AI agents …

After decades of studies in robotics and artificial intelligence, we can start glimpsing how the
use of robotic agents will be pervasive in all contexts of public and private interactions …

This contribution explores the possibility of trans-organic gender opened up by the
proliferation of technological species into the human context (robots, bots, digients, sims …

This essay takes 20th and 21st century Japan as a site for investigating the relationship
between claims of culture and the interplay between social robots and social institutions. By …