This article surveys the literature on human–robot object handovers. A handover is a
collaborative joint action, where an agent, the giver, gives an object to another agent, the …

In this paper, an overview of human–robot interactive communication is presented, covering
verbal as well as non-verbal aspects. Following a historical introduction, and motivation …

While seemingly simple, handover requires joint coordinate efforts from both partners,
commonly in dynamic collaborative scenarios. Practically, humans are able to adapt and …

A key research challenge in robotics is to design robotic systems with the cognitive
capabilities necessary to support human–robot interaction. These systems will need to have …

Natural-language-facilitated human–robot cooperation refers to using natural language to
facilitate interactive information sharing and task executions with a common goal constraint …

As social robots become increasingly prevalent in day-to-day environments, they will
participate in conversations and appropriately manage the information shared with them …

Human-robot interaction (HRI) may play a key role in enhancing a robot's capability in
practical service tasks, allowing productive human-robot collaboration. To obtain …

Generating referring expressions is a task that has received a great deal of attention in the
natural-language generation community, with an increasing amount of recent effort targeted …

It is natural and efficient to use human natural language (NL) directly to instruct robot task
executions without prior user knowledge of instruction patterns. Currently, NL-instructed …

Why do we perceive virtual assistants as something radically new? Our hypothesis is that
today virtual assistants are raising an expectation for natural interaction with the human …