This paper scrutinises how AI and robotic technologies are transforming the relationships
between people and machines in new affective, embodied and relational ways. Through …

Articulated legs enable the selection of robot gaits, including walking in different directions
such as forward or sideways. For longer distances, the best gaits might maximize velocity or …

In this paper I propose a Fictional Dualism model of social robots. The model helps us to
understand the human emotional reaction to social robots and also acts as a guide for us in …

The application of predictive algorithms and deep learningartificial intelligence (AI) will
transform the medical field. In recent years, medical AI has focused on the diagnosis and …

Human motion understanding has been studied for decades but yet it remains a challenging
research field which attracts the interest from different disciplines. This book wants to provide …