1. “THIS ISN’T ME!”: The Role of Age-Related Self- and User Images for Robot Acceptance by Elders

   • Melanie Dudek
   • Stefanie Baisch
   • Thorsten Kolling

   OriginalPaper Open access 27 October 2020 Pages: 1173 - 1187

   

2. Social Assistive Robots: Assessing the Impact of a Training Assistant Robot in Cardiac Rehabilitation

   • Jonathan Casas
   • Emmanuel Senft
   • Carlos A. Cifuentes

   OriginalPaper 27 October 2020 Pages: 1189 - 1203

   

3. Foundations of Erobotics

   • Simon Dubé
   • Dave Anctil

   OriginalPaper 28 October 2020 Pages: 1205 - 1233

   

4. Performing the Kick During Walking for RoboCup 3D Soccer Simulation League Using Reinforcement Learning Algorithm

   • Amin Rezaeipanah
   • Parvin Amiri
   • Shahram Jafari

   OriginalPaper 01 November 2020 Pages: 1235 - 1252

   

5. Computational Emotion Models: A Thematic Review

   • Suman Ojha
   • Jonathan Vitale
   • Mary-Anne Williams

   ReviewPaper 05 November 2020 Pages: 1253 - 1279

   

6. Telepresence Robot Use for Children with Chronic Illness in Australian Schools: A Scoping Review and Thematic Analysis

   • Angela Page
   • Jennifer Charteris
   • Jeanette Berman

   OriginalPaper 06 November 2020 Pages: 1281 - 1293

   

7. Human–Robot Collaborative Control in a Virtual-Reality-Based Telepresence System

   • Jianhao Du
   • Ha Manh Do
   • Weihua Sheng

   OriginalPaper 09 November 2020 Pages: 1295 - 1306

   

8. Social Robots on a Global Stage: Establishing a Role for Culture During Human–Robot Interaction

   • Velvetina Lim
   • Maki Rooksby
   • Emily S. Cross

   ReviewPaper Open access 11 November 2020 Pages: 1307 - 1333

   

9. Social Cues in the Autonomous Navigation of Indoor Mobile Robots

   • Arun Kumar Reddy
   • Vaibhav Malviya
   • Rahul Kala

   OriginalPaper 12 November 2020 Pages: 1335 - 1358

   

10. Asynchronously Embedding Psychological Test Questions into Human–Robot Conversations for User Profiling

    • Tsung-Ren Huang
    • Yu-Wei Liu
    • Li-Chen Fu

    OriginalPaper Open access 20 November 2020 Pages: 1359 - 1368

    

11. Humor–Robot Interaction: A Scoping Review of the Literature and Future Directions

    • Raquel Oliveira
    • Patrícia Arriaga
    • Ana Paiva

    ReviewPaper 21 November 2020 Pages: 1369 - 1383

    

12. Neural-Network-Based Robust Tracking Control for Condenser Cleaning Crawler-Type Mobile Manipulators with Delayed Uncertainties

    • Yi Zuo
    • Dong Hu
    • Huimin Zhao

    OriginalPaper 24 November 2020 Pages: 1385 - 1396

    

13. A Systematic Review for Service Humanoid Robotics Model in Hospitality

    • Jiaji Yang
    • Esyin Chew

    OriginalPaper Open access 24 November 2020 Pages: 1397 - 1410

    

14. Children’s Evaluations of a Therapy Dog and Biomimetic Robot: Influences of Animistic Beliefs and Social Interaction

    • Olivia Barber
    • Eszter Somogyi
    • Leanne Proops

    OriginalPaper Open access 09 December 2020 Pages: 1411 - 1425

    

15. The Importance of Realism, Character, and Genre: How Theatre Can Support the Creation of Likeable Sociable Robots

    • Louise LePage

    OriginalPaper Open access 12 December 2020 Pages: 1427 - 1441

    

16. The Exploration of the Uncanny Valley from the Viewpoint of the Robot’s Nonverbal Behaviour

    • Chidchanok Thepsoonthorn
    • Ken-ichiro Ogawa
    • Yoshihiro Miyake

    OriginalPaper Open access 03 January 2021 Pages: 1443 - 1455

    

17. The Rise of the Roboid

    • Leopoldina Fortunati
    • Alessandra Sorrentino
    • Filippo Cavallo

    OriginalPaper Open access 03 January 2021 Pages: 1457 - 1471

    

18. Collaborative Human–Robot Interaction Interface: Development for a Spinal Surgery Robotic Assistant

    • Andres Amarillo
    • Emilio Sanchez
    • Jon Oñativia

    OriginalPaper 05 January 2021 Pages: 1473 - 1484

    

19. Small Talk with a Robot? The Impact of Dialog Content, Talk Initiative, and Gaze Behavior of a Social Robot on Trust, Acceptance, and Proximity

    • Franziska Babel
    • Johannes Kraus
    • Martin Baumann

    OriginalPaper 06 January 2021 Pages: 1485 - 1498

    

20. Female-Type Android’s Drive to Quickly Understand a User’s Concept of Preferences Stimulates Dialogue Satisfaction: Dialogue Strategies for Modeling User’s Concept of Preferences

    • Takahisa Uchida
    • Takashi Minato
    • Hiroshi Ishiguro

    OriginalPaper Open access 07 January 2021 Pages: 1499 - 1516