Human-Machine collaboration is a vastly developing field in the area of Robotics. This paper
introduces the concept of such collaboration and describes its use in various facets of our …

Android robots capable of emotional interactions with humans have considerable potential
for application to research. While several studies developed androids that can exhibit …

This retrospective study presents and summarizes our long-term efforts in the popularization
of robotics, engineering, and artificial intelligence (STEM) using the NAO humanoid robot …

This paper describes an innovative approach for studying interaction between humans and
care robots. Using live theatrical performance, we developed a play that depicts a plausible …

We present Stanley, a digital sculpture designed to engage audiences with the spontaneous
and captivating emotional expressions of an artificial human. A 3D-printed face is brought to …

This paper describes innovative approaches to the design and control of entertainment
robots. Live performance is a useful testbed for developing and evaluating what makes …

This paper suggests to turn to the performative arts for insights that may help the fluent
coordination and jointaction timing of human-robot interaction (HRI). We argue that theater …

This work was developed to implement and apply a theatre playwriting technique for an art-
based research in the domain of social sustainability of artificial intelligence and …

For a number of years robots have been widely used in industry mainly for assembly tasks
and other automated processes. Advances in robot hardware and software have …

Recent advances in humanoid robotics have opened up many new directions for humanoid
robotics research. Multimedia and arts are applications with significant growth opportunities …