Humanoid and social robots have to perform in socially acceptable ways. They interact with
humans and support humans in their needs and their activities. Stand-up comedy is an …

This thesis seeks to make develo** multi-robot comedy performances more accessible to
developers and performers, and suggests the use of duo comedy for robot-run research …

Humor is a nuanced field; thus, prior robot comedy efforts have found the stage a relevant
and helpful source of HRI analysis data, particularly when multiple performers can interact …

We propose a communication robot that can acquire verb meanings through interaction with
a human. Our target verbs are body movement verbs that have two objectives and can be …