In this article, we investigate the role of causal reasoning in robotics research. Inspired by a
categorization of human causal cognition, we propose a categorization of robot causal …

Robot failures in human-centered environments are inevitable. Therefore, the ability of
robots to explain such failures is paramount for interacting with humans to increase trust and …

Robots working in human environments need to adapt to unexpected changes to avoid
failures. This is an open and complex challenge that requires robots to timely predict and …

Great advancements have been achieved in the field of robotics, however, main challenges
remain, including building robots with an adaptive Theory of Mind (ToM). In the present …

Since long ago, humans have always dreamt (or had nightmares) and speculated about
having robots able to behave and relate to them as if they were humans (Asimov 1950; …

Despite the recent advancement in the social robotic field, important limitations restrain its
progress and delay the application of robots in everyday scenarios. In the present paper, we …

From social dining in households to product assembly in manufacturing lines, goal-directed
reasoning and cooperation with other agents in shared workspaces is a ubiquitous aspect of …

Continual learning, a widespread ability in people and animals, aims to learn and acquire
new knowledge and skills continuously. Catastrophic forgetting usually occurs in continual …

Robot technology has over the last decades developed into many new areas and
applications. From being a technology primarily associated with industrial automation where …

A recurrent, yet still incredibly interesting, debate surrounds the development of human
Theory of Mind (ToM), as well as the identification of the mechanisms and factors implicated …