Individuality is one of the most important qualities of humans. Social robots should be able to
model the individuality of the human partners and to modify their behaviours accordingly …

In the last twenty years, robotics have been applied in many heterogeneous contexts.
Among them, the use of humanoid robots during musical concerts have been proposed and …

In this paper will be presented an heterogeneous colony of robots capable to cooperate with
people as effective partners to provide different kind of support among various working …

An increasing number of applications require the integration of heterogeneous hardware
and software components. Due to the high levels of complexity that such integrations …

In this paper is illustrated the cognitive architecture of a humanoid robot based on the
proposed paradigm of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). This paradigm is a step towards the …

In this paper we illustrate the cognitive architecture of a humanoid robot based on the
proposed paradigm of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). The LSA approach allows the …

This paper presents a model of trust for biological and artificial humanoid robots and agents
as antecedent condition of interaction. We discuss the cognitive engines of social perception …

One of the main features of social robots is the ability to communicate and interact with
people as partners in a natural way. However, achieving a good verbal interaction is a hard …

We present a universal building block for cognitive machines, called NeuroNavigator,
inspired by theories of the hippocampus. The module is designed to fit both biological …

Abstract The Human Robot Interaction (HRI) is a new discipline that has attracted more
attention in the last years due to the increasing presence of robots in people's everyday life …