In the current industrial context, the importance of assessing and improving workers' health
conditions is widely recognised. Both physical and psycho-social factors contribute to …

Robot assistants and professional coworkers are becoming a commodity in domestic and
industrial settings. In order to enable robots to share their workspace with humans and …

This article reviews the state of the art in social eye gaze for human-robot interaction (HRI). It
establishes three categories of gaze research in HRI, defined by differences in goals and …

Ensuring human safety is one of the most important considerations within the field of human-
robot interaction (HRI). This does not simply involve preventing collisions between humans …

Abstract Human–Robot Interaction challenges Artificial Intelligence in many regards:
dynamic, partially unknown environments that were not originally designed for robots; a …

This article surveys the literature on human–robot object handovers. A handover is a
collaborative joint action, where an agent, the giver, gives an object to another agent, the …

Over the last two decades, the foundations for physical human–robot interaction (pHRI) have
evolved from successful developments in mechatronics, control, and planning, leading …

Our tools and appliances are becoming increasingly more intelligent and interconnected,
giving birth to an “Internet of Things” that can be used to support new types of cyber-physical …

This paper proposes an interaction learning method for collaborative and assistive robots
based on movement primitives. The method allows for both action recognition and human …

When a robot has to execute a shared plan with a human, a number of unexpected
situations and contingencies can happen due, essentially, to human initiative. For instance …