Social Robotics: Theory, Methods and Applications
This special issue belongs to the section "Robotics and Automation".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Social robotics aims to provide robots with artificial social intelligence to improve human–machine interaction and to introduce them in complex human contexts.
Over the most recent decades, research in the field of social robotics has considerably grown. There are a growing number of different types of robots, and their roles within society are expanding little by little. Robots endowed with social abilities aim to be used for assisting people in a wide range of activities, from domestic to service tasks up to educational and medical assistance. In the future, if it were possible to interact with robots in a natural way, they could be used to enhance the quality of our daily life and, indeed, become the next generation of interfaces for enabling humans to interact with smart environments via the Internet of Things (IoT), a currently fashionable topic that aims to connect different devices via network enabling them to exchange data.
This Special Issue (SI) aims to encourage researchers to address recent advances in the latest technologies, new research results, and developments in the area of social robotics.
Keywords
- social robot
- socially assistive robotics
- autonomous robot
- social behaviors
- adaptive robot behavior
- robot body expression
- robot behavior coordination
- human–robot interaction and robot–robot interaction
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Published Papers
Appl. Sci. - ISSN 2076-3417