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Artificial Hormone Network for Adaptable Robots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
With current robotic technologies, it generally remains unreliable to use fully autonomous robots in high-risk robotic applications such as search and rescue, surveillance or exploration in disaster scenarios.
Teerakittikul, Pitiwut
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Social Robots for Social Institutions Scaling Up and Cutting Back on Cognition

open access: yes, 2023
Current technological change is rapid and far-reaching, more so than ever before in human history. It is transforming all dimensions of human life, leading to large-scale adaptation.
Lund University., Brinck, Ingar,
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Role of Speaker Cues in Attention Inference

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2017
Current state-of-the-art approaches to emotion recognition primarily focus on modeling the nonverbal expressions of the sole individual without reference to contextual elements such as the co-presence of the partner.
Jin Joo Lee   +2 more
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Industrial Social Robots (SOBOTS) to Enhance Smart Production Systems

open access: yesRobotica & Management, 2023
This paper explores the potential use of social robots in smart manufacturing industries, presenting several use cases where such robots could bring benefits.
Stelian Brad
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Company from the Uncanny Valley: A Psychological Perspective on Social Robots, Anthropomorphism and the Introduction of Robots to Society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
There are many issues surrounding the introduction of social robots into society, including concerns about how they may be used to replace true social interaction in personal life, dehumanise formerly social occupations such as elderly care, and be ...
Samuel, Janina Luise
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The New Frontier in Communication Research: Why We Should Study Social Robots

open access: yesMedia and Communication, 2018
Social robots—robots that are made for interaction with humans—are becoming increasingly popular. In contrast to other disciplines, however, communication research has been slow in studying them.
Jochen Peter, Rinaldo Kühne
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When rats rescue robots [PDF]

open access: yesAnimal Behavior and Cognition, 2018
Robots are increasingly being used to monitor and even participate in social interactions with animals in their own environments. Robotic animals enable social behaviors to be observed in natural environments, or specifically elicited under the control ...
Laleh K Quinn   +10 more
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Germ-Free Robotic Friends: Loneliness during the COVID-19 Pandemic Enhanced the Willingness to Self-Disclose towards Robots

open access: yesRobotics, 2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people felt lonely. Social robots may serve to alleviate such feelings of social disconnection. Prior research pointed out that lonely or socially excluded individuals were particularly willing to interact with social ...
Angelika Penner, Friederike Eyssel
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Types of city dwellers’attitudes towards service robots in the city of Perm

open access: yesСоциологическая наука и социальная практика, 2023
The effectiveness of robot implementation in various societal sectors depends not only on the robot’s technical characteristics but also on how different social groups perceive and interact with them.
Gyuzel I. Seletkova   +3 more
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Formation control of nonholonomic mobile robots: the virtual structure approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
PhDIn recent years, there has been a considerable growth in applications of multi-robot systems as opposed to single-robot systems. This thesis presents our proposed solutions to a formation control problem in which mobile robots are required to ...
Sadowska, Anna Danuta
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