There are significant research efforts underway in the area of automatic robotic-prosthesis
control based on brain–computer interface aiming at understanding how neural signals can …

To interact with humans, robots will possess a software architecture much more complete
than current robots and be equipped with new functionalities. The purpose of this chapter is …

The use of robots for the automation of the supply of food and beverages is a commercially
attractive and modern application of robotic technologies. Such innovative technologies are …

The spread adoption of humanoid social robots in different application fields is growing the
interest of hackers who could violate the privacy of people, or—even worse—threaten …

Several studies focused on single human activity recognition, while the classification of
group activities is still under-investigated. In this paper, we present an approach for …

Human robot collaborative work requires interactive manipulation and object handover.
During the execution of such tasks, the robot should monitor manipulation cues to assess …

In this paper, we propose a human-robot interaction system that exploits emotion and
attention to regulate and adapt the robotic interactive behavior. In particular, we will focus on …

In recent years, humanoid robots have become quite ubiquitous finding wide applicability in
many different fields, spanning from education to entertainment and assistance. They can be …

Single-human supervision of collaborative semi-autonomous multirobot teams is recently
getting the attention of the robotic community. In this context, the adoption of a growing …

When interacting with a group of people, a robot requires the ability to compute people's
visual focus of attention in order to regulate the turn-taking, to determine attended objects, as …