Towards Socially Assistive Robotics

Adriana Tapus (1) , Mataric Maja (2)

1 IS - Ingénierie Systèmes
2 Interaction Lab, University of Southern California

The recent trend toward developing a new generation of robots that are capable of moving and acting in human-centered environments, interacting with people, and participating in our daily lives has introduced the need for building robotic systems able to learn how to use their bodies to communicate and to react to their users in a social and engaging way. Social robots that interact with humans have thus become an important focus of robotics research.

Domaines: Robotique [cs.RO]

Adriana Tapus, Mataric Maja. Towards Socially Assistive Robotics. International Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan (JRSJ), 2006, 24 (5), pp.576-578. ⟨hal-00770126⟩