Robots are increasingly envisaged as our future cohabitants. However, while considerable
progress has been made in recent years in terms of their technological realization, the ability …

In this paper, we propose that experimental protocols involving artificial agents, in particular
the embodied humanoid robots, provide insightful information regarding social cognitive …

Understanding the mechanisms and consequences of attributing socialness to artificial
agents has important implications for how we can use technology to lead more productive …

Smart environments offer valuable technologies for activity monitoring and health
assessment. Here, we describe an integration of robots into smart environments to provide …

In the last decade, the objectives outlined by the needs of personal robotics have led to the
rise of new biologically-inspired techniques for arm motion planning. This paper presents a …

As the field of social robotics has been dynamically growing and expanding over various
areas of research and application, in which robots can be of assistance and companionship …

Robots are becoming an integral part of society, yet our moral stance toward these non-
living objects is unclear. In two experiments, we investigated whether anthropomorphic …

The nervous system is sensitive to statistical regularities of the external world and forms
internal models of these regularities to predict environmental dynamics. Given the inherently …

For social robots, like in all other digitally interactive systems, products, services, and
devices, positive user experience (UX) is necessary in order to achieve the intended …

The vast expansion of research in human-robot interactions (HRI) these last decades has
been accompanied by the design of increasingly skilled robots for engaging in joint actions …