Academic Articles & Research Papers

Developmental Robotics

A comprehensive overview of an interdisciplinary approach to robotics that takes direct inspiration from the developmental and learning phenomena observed in children's cognitive development. Developmental robotics is a collaborative and in...

Science for robotics and robotics for science

has been launched to cover the most important advances in the development and application of robots, with interest in hardware and software as well as social interactions and implications....

Robot Rights

A provocative attempt to think about what was previously considered unthinkable: a serious philosophical case for the rights of robots. We are in the midst of a robot invasion, as devices of different configurations and capabilities slowly ...

Matching robot appearance and behavior to tasks to improve human-robot cooperation

A robot's appearance and behavior provide cues to the robot's abilities and propensities. We hypothesize that an appropriate match between a robot's social cues and its task improve the people's acceptance of and cooperation with the robot....

Human–robot creative interactions: Exploring creativity in artificial agents using a storytelling game

Creativity in social robots requires further attention in the interdisciplinary field of human–robot interaction (HRI). This study investigates the hypothesized connection between the perceived creative agency and the animacy of social robo...

Collective Robotics: From Social Insects to Robots

Achieving tasks with multiple robots will require a control system that is both simple and scalable as the number of robots increases. Collective behavior as demonstrated by social insects is a form of decentralized control that may prove u...

Persuasive Robotics: The influence of robot gender on human behavior

Persuasive Robotics is the study of persuasion as it applies to human-robot interaction (HRI). Persuasion can be generally defined as an attempt to change another's beliefs or behavior. The act of influencing others is fundamental to nearly...

Richard Baldwin: The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics, and the Future of Wor.k

At the root of inequality, unemployment, and populism are radical changes in the world economy. Digital technology is allowing talented foreigners to telecommute into our workplaces and compete for service and professional jobs. Instant mac...

Laws on Robots, Laws by Robots, Laws in Robots: Regulating Robot Behaviour by Design

Speculation about robot morality is almost as old as the concept of a robot itself. Asimov’s three laws of robotics provide an early and well-discussed example of moral rules robots should observe. Despite the widespread influence of the th...

Anthropomorphic Interactions with a Robot and Robot–like Agent

People's physical embodiment and presence increase their salience and importance. We predicted people would anthropomorphize an embodied humanoid robot more than a robot–like agent, and a collocated more than a remote robot. A robot or robo...

Socially assistive robotics [Grand Challenges of Robotics]

Socially intelligent robotics is the pursuit of creating robots capable of exhibiting natural-appearing social qualities. Beyond the basic capabilities of moving and acting autonomously, the field has focused on the use of the robot's physi...

Socially intelligent robots: dimensions of human–robot interaction

Social intelligence in robots has a quite recent history in artificial intelligence and robotics. However, it has become increasingly apparent that social and interactive skills are necessary requirements in many application areas and conte...

Robot ethics: the ethical and social implications of robotics

Robots today serve in many roles, from entertainer to educator to executioner. As robotics technology advances, ethical concerns become more pressing: Should robots be programmed to follow a code of ethics, if this is even possible? Are the...

Robots in Society, Society in Robots

Human–Robot Interaction in Rescue Robotics

Rescue robotics has been suggested by a recent DARPA/NSF study as an application domain for the research in human-robot integration (HRI). This paper provides a short tutorial on how robots are currently used in urban search and rescue (USA...

Industrial Robotics

From the Publisher: Taking an interdisciplinary approach to robotics,this new book covers such topics as robot technology,robot programming,applications,machine vision,artificial intelligence,and related social considerations. One of the f...

Technological trajectories in quantum computing to design a quantum ecosystem for industrial change

This study develops a technology analysis to detect technological trajectories in quantum computing that can lay the foundation of a quantum industry. Study design considers data of 10,089 scientific products in ‘quantum computing’ over 198...

Evolution of Quantum Computing: Theoretical and Innovation Management Implications for Emerging Quantum Industry

Quantum computing is a vital research field in science and technology. One of the fundamental questions hardly known is how quantum computing research is developing to support scientific advances and the evolution of path-breaking technolog...

Quantum-Enhanced Algorithmic Fairness and the Advancement of AI Integrity and Responsibility

In the evolving digital landscape, the pervasive influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on social media platforms reveals a compelling paradox: the capability to provide personalized experiences juxtaposed with inherent biases reminiscen...

Ethics of Quantum Computing: an Outline

Abstract This paper intends to contribute to the emerging literature on the ethical problems posed by quantum computing and quantum technologies in general. The key ethical questions are as follows: Does quantum computing pose new ethical p...