Some applications of service robots within domestic and working environments are
envisaged to be a significant part of our lives in the not too distant future. They are …

We present NormBank, a knowledge bank of 155k situational norms. This resource is
designed to ground flexible normative reasoning for interactive, assistive, and collaborative …

Social robots are becoming increasingly diverse in their design, behavior, and usage. In this
chapter, we provide a broad-ranging overview of the main characteristics that arise when …

Human-robot trust research often measures people's trust in robots in individual scenarios.
However, humans may update their trust dynamically as they continuously interact with a …

Society is starting to come up with exciting applications for social robots like butlers,
coaches, and waiters. However, these robots face a challenging task: to meet people during …

The variety and complexity of tasks autonomous robots can tackle is constantly increasing,
yet we seldom see robots collaborating with humans. Indeed, humans are either requested …

Recent advances in robotics and artificial intelligence have made it necessary or desired for
humans to get involved in interactions with social robots. A key factor for the human …

Humans subconsciously judge others as being either similar or dissimilar to themselves,
manifesting as an unconscious preference, or affinity bias, for those who are perceived to be …

Social and moral norms are a fabric for holding human societies together and helping them
to function. As such they will also become a means of evaluating the performance of future …

Many researchers from robotics, machine ethics, and adjacent fields seem to assume that
norms represent good behavior that social robots should learn to benefit their users and …