Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Apr 29, 2019
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, researchers across different fields are grappling with the questio...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Apr 29, 2019
Human-centred AI/Robotics are quickly becoming important. Their core claim is that AI systems or robots must be designed and work for the benefits of humans with no harm or uneasiness. It essentially requires the realization of autonomy, sociality an...
Journal of autism and developmental disorders
Apr 1, 2019
Technological agents could be effective tools to be used in interventions for enhancing social orienting for some young children with ASD. We examined response to social bids in preschool children with ASD and typical development (TD) at a very early...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Social robots may promote the health of older adults by increasing their perceived emotional support and social interaction. This review aims to summarize the effectiveness of social robots on outcomes (psychological, physi...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2019
Social robotics is currently challenging researchers to look at virtually every topic with relevance for human societies. The multidisciplinary nature of this new area is emerging at a fast pace and, at the same time, multiple challenges are also eme...
Middlesex University and the University of Bedfordshire are collaborating on a programme to develop a human-shaped robot to assist in social care for older people.
Recent developments in machine vision methods for automatic, quantitative analysis of social behavior have immensely improved both the scale and level of resolution with which we can dissect interactions between members of the same species. In this p...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
May 5, 2016
In this paper, we propose that experimental protocols involving artificial agents, in particular the embodied humanoid robots, provide insightful information regarding social cognitive mechanisms in the human brain. Using artificial agents allows for...