Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, robotics is developing at a much faster pace than ever in the past, both inside and outside industrial environments. Service robotics, surgical and rehabilitation robotics, assistive robotics, and other novel application fields are becoming more and more significant, not only from technological and economical viewpoints, but also in terms of their daily life and social implications. Even the implementation and role of robots in production lines and other traditional frames is being widely revised, since robots are rapidly changing from slave devices working inside cages and doing repetitive tasks under the assumption of a deterministic workspace to cyber-physical systems in the industry 4.0 framework where they work alongside human workers and collaborate with them in an uncertain dynamic workspace.

In this context, research on robot artificial perception, probabilistic modeling and reasoning, artificial intelligence, learning, human-robot interaction and collaboration, affective computing, natural language interaction, multi-robot cooperation, compliance control, and dexterous manipulation is going to play an increasingly central role.

This Special Issue aims at disseminating the latest research achievements, findings, and ideas in the robotics field, with particular attention to the Europe scenario. However, manuscripts that present results of national and international projects will be also welcome to this special issue.

We welcome you to send short abstract for feature paper submissions to the Editorial Office ([email protected]) before the formal submission of your manuscript. Selected planned papers can be published in full open access form, Free-of-Charge, if they are accepted after peer-review.

Prof. Dr. Rui P. Rocha
Prof. Dr. Oscar Reinoso García
Dr. Thierry Chaminade
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Thurow
Guest Editors

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