Purpose This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of research on robotics in
travel, tourism and hospitality, and to identify research gaps and directions for future …

Robots are increasingly envisaged as our future cohabitants. However, while considerable
progress has been made in recent years in terms of their technological realization, the ability …

In the past few years, the field of computer vision has gone through a revolution fueled
mainly by the advent of large datasets and the adoption of deep convolutional neural …

The role of robots in society keeps expanding and diversifying, bringing with it a host of
issues surrounding the relationship between robots and humans. This introduction to human …

The growing implementation of robotics in hospitality and tourism requires broader research
into customers' experience with service robots. This study explores human-robot interaction …

Over the last few years there has been rapid research growth into eXplainable Artificial
Intelligence (XAI) and the closely aligned Interpretable Machine Learning (IML). Drivers for …

Intelligent systems are increasingly part of our everyday lives and have been integrated
seamlessly to the point where it is difficult to imagine a world without them. Physical …

Abstract To make Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS), such as virtual agents and
embodied robots,“explainable” we need to understand how people respond to such systems …

Safe and social navigation is the key to deploying a mobile service robot in a human-
centered environment. Widespread acceptability of mobile service robots in daily life is …

A service robot performs various professional services and domestic/personal services
useful for organizations and humans in many application domains. Currently, the service …