Understanding human trust in machine partners has become imperative due to the
widespread use of intelligent machines in a variety of applications and contexts. The aim of …

A socially intelligent robot must be capable to extract meaningful information in real time
from the social environment and react accordingly with coherent human-like behavior …

Humans have an innate tendency to anthropomorphize surrounding entities and have
always been fascinated by the creation of machines endowed with human-inspired …

Humanoids have been created for assisting or replacing humans in many applications,
providing encouraging results in contexts where social and emotional interaction is required …

Robot's perception is essential for performing high-level tasks such as understanding,
learning, and in general, human-robot interaction (HRI). For this reason, different perception …

Robot-assisted therapy has been successfully used to help children with Autism Spectrum
Condition (ASC) develop their social skills, but very often with the robot being fully controlled …

Robots have been gradually leaving laboratory and factory environments and moving into
human populated environments. Various social robots have been developed with the ability …

The number of published scientific articles is increasing dramatically and makes it difficult to
keep track of research topics. This is particularly difficult in interdisciplinary research areas …

One of the most challenging goals in social robotics is implementing emotional skills.
Making robots capable of expressing and deciphering emotions is considered crucial for …

Robots can express emotions for better human robot interaction. In this field, NAO robot is a
platform widely used. This robot mainly expresses emotions by gestures and colored LED …