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Propensity to trust shapes perceptions of comforting touch between trustworthy human and robot partners.

Scientific reports
Touching a friend to comfort or be comforted is a common prosocial behaviour, firmly based in mutual trust. Emphasising the interactive nature of trust and touch, we suggest that vulnerability, reciprocity and individual differences shape trust and p...

Is two cuter than one? number and relationship effects on the feeling of kawaii toward social robots.

PloS one
Kawaii, which is a Japanese word that means cute, lovely, and adorable, is an essential factor in promoting positive emotions in people. The characteristics of a target's appearance that induce such feelings of kawaii have been thoroughly investigate...

Humans and robots: Friends of the future? A bird's eye view of biomanufacturing industry 5.0.

Biotechnology advances
The evolution of industries have introduced versatile technologies, motivating limitless possibilities of tackling pivotal global predicaments in the arenas of medicine, environment, defence, and national security. In this direction, ardently emerges...

My Precious Friend: Human-Robot Interactions in Home Care for Socially Isolated Older Adults.

Clinical gerontologist
OBJECTIVES: Using a friendship framework, we explored interactions between a multi-functional companion robot and older adults residing in a low-resource community in South Korea.

Association between loneliness and acceptance of using robots and pets as companions among older Chinese immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Australasian journal on ageing
OBJECTIVES: To examine loneliness experienced by middle-aged and older Chinese immigrants and its association with accepting technology as a companion (apps, Internet and robots) versus owning pets, when social distancing measures were implemented in...

The Making of : Can We Produce Artificial Companions by Programming Sentience into Robots?

The New bioethics : a multidisciplinary journal of biotechnology and the body
This essay discusses sentient robot (SR) research through the lens of suffering. First three kinds of suffering are considered: physical, psychological, and existential. Physical pain is shown to be primarily subjective, and distinctive psychological...

Designing Man's New Best Friend: Enhancing Human-Robot Dog Interaction through Dog-Like Framing and Appearance.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
To understand how to improve interactions with dog-like robots, we evaluated the importance of "dog-like" framing and physical appearance on interaction, hypothesizing multiple interactive benefits of each. We assessed whether framing Aibo as a puppy...