Robots will become as ubiquitous as computers and smartphones and thereby profoundly transform many aspects of our daily lives. As the psychologist Sherry Turkle frames it, we have reached the “robotic moment”, the moment where we are ready to delegate important interactions of human relationships to robots. That means, we let social robots be the teaching companions for the young and the caretakers for the old. But it is not so much a question of building robots sophisticated enough for our company but whether we are ready for their company.
Category: Benjamin Stangl
Cultural differences and cross-cultural aspects are frequently addressed in HRI research, both as an explanation for interpreting study results [1] as well as an object of the study itself [2].…
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human form or other characteristics to anything other than a human being. Humans tend to anthropomorphize not only nature, but basically anything around them [1].…
On the one side, interacting with a social robot is seen as fundamentally different from interacting with other technical devices, such as a PC or a coffee brewer. On the…
Abstract Pictures serve as a memory of situations and experiences that people make. This project places a smartphone in the hands of the humanoid robot Romeo and transfers the act…
This project places a smartphone in the hands of the humanoid robot Romeo and transfers the act of taking a picture to a robot. The robot is no longer the…