Abstract Purpose of Review We provide an outlook on the definitions, laboratory research,
and applications of social robots, with an aim to understand what makes a robot social—in …

The topic of mental state attribution to robots has been approached by researchers from a
variety of disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and …

Purpose Service robots are now an integral part of people's living and working environment,
making service robots one of the hot topics for service researchers today. Against that …

In the near future, it is expected that we humans will receive an increasing part of various
services from robots. Many observers, and several existing studies, indicate that we react …

Clifford Nass and his colleagues proposed the Computers Are Social Actors (CASA)
paradigm in the 1990s and demonstrated that we treat computers in some of the ways we …

With robots increasingly assuming social roles (eg, assistants, companions),
anthropomorphism (ie, the cognition that an entity possesses human characteristics) plays a …

Due to recent technological advancements, social robots are becoming increasingly
prevalent in the consumer space. ChatGPT, a virtual social robot, has captured significant …

Anthropomorphism describes the tendency to ascribe human characteristics to nonhuman
agents. Due to the increased interest in social robotics, anthropomorphism has become a …

Both robots and humans can behave in ways that engender positive and negative
evaluations of their behaviors and associated responsibility. However, extant scholarship on …

Beyond conscious beliefs and goals, automatic cog-nitive processes shape our social
encounters, and interactions with complex machines like social robots are no exception …