Much has been said about the power of in-groups in social robotics. For example, people may favor a robot on their own team over a human on another team during game-play. Will this effect also hold over in a science museum exhibit illustrating ...

Teleoperation remains an essential mode of robot control, especially in hazardous, uncertain environments. However, it presents multiple challenges such as latency, limited depth perception and constrained field of view. In this work, we introduce ...

When deploying social robots in the wild, it is crucial for developers to gain an understanding of how the interactions between the robot and its human conversational partners are progressing. Unlike in traditional task-based settings in which a human ...

Social robotics has recently focused on developing AI agents that recognise and respond to human emotions. The use of plan-based approaches is promising, especially in domains where collecting data in advance is challenging (e.g., medical domains). We ...

For untrained users, programming a robot that interacts with humans in a real-world scenario is challenging to impossible. However, in order to make interactive robots available in a wide range of domains and connect them with other smart devices, it ...

In this paper, we study how well human speech can automatically be filtered when this overlaps with the voice and fan noise of a social robot, Pepper. We ultimately aim for an HRI scenario where the microphone can remain open when the robot is speaking, ...

The decisions made by autonomous robots hold substantial influence over how humans perceive their behavior. One way to alleviate potential negative impressions of such decisions by humans and enhance human comprehension of them is through explaining. We ...