Living organisms are far superior to state-of-the-art robots as they have evolved a wide
number of capabilities that far encompass our most advanced technologies. The merging of …

This paper discusses the nuances of a social robot, how and why social robots are
becoming increasingly significant, and what they are currently being used for. This paper …

A comprehensive overview of an interdisciplinary approach to robotics that takes direct
inspiration from the developmental and learning phenomena observed in children's …

Artificial intelligence (AI) applications have become an integral part of our society. However,
studying AI as one entity or studying idiosyncratic applications separately both have …

Personality, or consistent individual differences in behavior, is well established in studies of
dogs. Such consistency implies predictability of behavior, but some recent research …

Anthropomorphism is the use of human characteristics to describe or explain nonhuman
animals. In the present paper, we propose a model for a unified study of such …

Robots exhibit life-like behavior by performing intelligent actions. To enhance human-robot
interaction it is necessary to investigate and understand how end-users perceive such …

The integration of biomimetic robots in a fish school may enable a better understanding of
collective behaviour, offering a new experimental method to test group feedback in response …

An empirical framework for Human-Robot (HR) proxemics is proposed which shows how the
measurement and control of interpersonal distances between a human and a robot can be …

In the future, robots may live with users as long-term companions, thus it is important that
some sort of attachment relationship develop between humans and agents. Man's best …