Service robots: Trends and technology

JA Gonzalez-Aguirre, R Osorio-Oliveros… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The 2021 sales volume in the market of service robots is attractive. Expert reports from the
International Federation of Robotics confirm 27 billion USD in total market share. Moreover …

Social robots in hospitals: a systematic review

CS González-González, V Violant-Holz… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Hospital environments are facing new challenges this century. One of the most important is
the quality of services to patients. Social robots are gaining prominence due to the …

Artificial emotions and love and sex doll service workers

R Belk - Journal of Service Research, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Realistic looking humanoid love and sex dolls have been available on a somewhat
secretive basis for at least three decades. But today the industry has gone mainstream with …

User experience in social robots

ES Shourmasti, R Colomo-Palacios, H Holone, S Demi - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Social robots are increasingly penetrating our daily lives. They are used in various domains,
such as healthcare, education, business, industry, and culture. However, introducing this …

Sexual interaction in digital contexts and its implications for sexual health: a conceptual analysis

N Döring, N Krämer, V Mikhailova, M Brand… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Based on its prevalence, there is an urgent need to better understand the mechanisms,
opportunities and risks of sexual interaction in digital contexts (SIDC) that are related with …

Microfluidic-based technologies for diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of COVID-19: recent advances and future directions

EA Tarim, M Anil Inevi, I Ozkan, S Kecili, E Bilgi… - Biomedical …, 2023 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed significant challenges to existing healthcare systems
around the world. The urgent need for the development of diagnostic and therapeutic …

Beyond ownership: Human–robot relationships between property and personhood

M Dehnert, DJ Gunkel - New Media & Society, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
As artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled social robots continue to enter our lifeworlds, we will
need to grapple with challenges to assumptions about our relationship to and even with …

Psychological insights into the research and practice of embodied conversational agents, chatbots and social assistive robots: a systematic meta-review

K Kiuchi, K Otsu, Y Hayashi - Behaviour & Information Technology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study presents a systematic literature search and narrative meta-review of the current
state of research on conversational agents (CAs), including embodied CAs, chatbots, and …

Sex robots and personality: It is more about sex than robots

S Dubé, M Santaguida, CY Zhu, S Di Tomasso… - Computers in Human …, 2022 - Elsevier
Examining the links between personality traits and attitudes toward sex robots can provide
insights into who may desire such machines, and why. This online study thus examined the …

From sex dolls to sex robots and beyond: A narrative review of theoretical and empirical research on human-like and personified sex tech

KR Hanson, CC Locatelli - Current Sexual Health Reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Developments in human-like and personified sex tech require
familiarity with a range of technologically sophisticated sex toys. Most sex toys …