Over the past decades, many robots for the elderly have been developed, supporting
different activities of elderly people. A systematic review in four scientific literature databases …

While research and development related to robotics has been going on for decades, the
past decade in particular has seen a marked increase in related efforts, in part due to …

Research demonstrated that humans are able to interpret humanlike (affective) nonverbal
behavior (HNB) in artificial entities (eg Beck et al., in: Proceedings of the 19th IEEE …

Personal robots and robot technology (RT)-based assistive devices are expected to play a
major role in our elderly-dominated society, with an active participation to joint works and …

We present the mechatronic design of the next generation of our humanoid robots, the
humanoid robot ARMAR-4, a full body torque controlled humanoid robot with 63 active …

This paper presents the development of emotional postures for the humanoid robot Nao.
The approach is based on adaptation of the postures that are developed for a virtual human …

We investigated how a presenter's touching behaviors of an object during its explanation
affect the observer's perceived feelings of kawaii, a Japanese word that means “cute,” …

This book reports on the developments of the bipedal walking robot Lucy. Special about it is
that the biped is not actuated with the classical electrical drives but with pleated pneumatic …

This paper reports on the mechanical design of the huggable robot Probo. Its intentions
include human–robot interaction (HRI), both physical and cognitive, with a special focus on …

This paper presents a review of available research concerning social emotions in robotics.
In robotics, the study of emotions has been pursued since a long time. The popular research …