Artificial intelligence advances have led to robots endowed with increasingly sophisticated
social abilities. These machines speak to our innate desire to perceive social cues in the …

Automatic imitation is the finding that movement execution is facilitated by compatible and
impeded by incompatible observed movements. In the past 15 years, automatic imitation has …

A large and increasing number of people around the world experience cognitive disability.
Rehabilitation robotics has provided promising training and assistance approaches to …

Entropy is a powerful tool for quantification of the brain function and its information
processing capacity. This is evident in its broad domain of applications that range from …

As robots advance from the pages and screens of science fiction into our homes, hospitals,
and schools, they are poised to take on increasingly social roles. Consequently, the need to …

Understanding the mechanisms and consequences of attributing socialness to artificial
agents has important implications for how we can use technology to lead more productive …

Given recent technological developments in robotics, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality,
it is perhaps unsurprising that the arrival of emotionally expressive and reactive artificial …

Existing methodologies to describe anthropomorphism in human-robot interaction often rely
either on specific one-time responses to robot behavior, such as kee** the robot's secret …

As social robots are increasingly introduced into health interventions, one potential area
where they might prove valuable is in supporting people's psychological health through …

An appropriate level of human-robot trust is considered a necessary precondition for
successful human-robot interaction (HRI). With collaborative robots (cobots) entering …