The topic of mental state attribution to robots has been approached by researchers from a
variety of disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and …

Artificial intelligence advances have led to robots endowed with increasingly sophisticated
social abilities. These machines speak to our innate desire to perceive social cues in the …

Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform firm-customer interactions. However, current
AI marketing agents are often perceived as cold and uncaring and can be poor substitutes …

While interactions with social robots are novel and exciting for many people, one concern is
the extent to which people's behavioural and emotional engagement might be sustained …

Robotic agents designed to assist people across a variety of social and service settings are
becoming increasingly prevalent across the world. Here we synthesise two decades of …

Face editing generates a face image with the target attributes without changing the identity
or other information. Current methods have achieved considerable performance; however …

Humanoid social robots have an increasingly prominent place in today's world. Their
acceptance in social and emotional human–robot interaction (HRI) scenarios depends on …

We develop a taxonomy that categorizes HRI failure types and their impact on trust to
structure the broad range of knowledge contributions. We further identify research gaps in …

Amidst the fourth industrial revolution, social robots are resolutely moving from fiction to
reality. With sophisticated artificial agents becoming ever more ubiquitous in daily life …

While research and development related to robotics has been going on for decades, the
past decade in particular has seen a marked increase in related efforts, in part due to …