This chapter surveys some of the principal research trends in Social Robotics and its
application to human–robot interaction (HRI). Social (or Sociable) robots are designed to …

This article surveys traditional research topics in industrial robotics and mobile robotics and
then expands on new trends in robotics research that focus more on the interaction between …

For robots to navigate and interact more richly with the world around them, they will likely
require a deeper understanding of the world in which they operate. In robotics and related …

The design of artificial empathy is one of the most essential issues in social robotics. This is
because empathic interactions with ordinary people are needed to introduce robots into our …

Human communication involves a number of nonverbal cues that are seemingly
unintentional, unconscious, and automatic-both in their production and perception-and …

We have been advocating cognitive developmental robotics to obtain new insight into the
development of human cognitive functions by utilizing synthetic and constructive …

Recent decades have seen significant progress in the field of artificial hands. Most of the
surveys, which try to capture the latest developments in this field, focused on actuation and …

Robotics has traditionally focused on develo** intelligent machines that can manipulate
and interact with objects. The promise of personal robots, however, challenges researchers …

This paper presents a method of mood transition design of a robot for autonomous
emotional interaction with humans. A 2-D emotional model is proposed to combine robot …

Recently, real-time facial expression recognition has attracted more and more research. In
this study, an automatic facial expression real-time system was built and tested. Firstly, the …