1. Editorial

   • Shuzhi Sam Ge
   • Agnieszka Wykowska
   • Oussama Khatib

   Editorial 29 March 2019 Pages: 209 - 210

2. Free Kinematic Singularity Controller for a Planetary Gear Based Cobot

   • Omar Mendoza-Trejo
   • Erick A. Padilla-García
   • Alejandro Rodríguez-Angeles

   OriginalPaper Open access 26 June 2018 Pages: 211 - 218

   

3. Skeleton-Based Human Action Recognition by Pose Specificity and Weighted Voting

   • Tingting Liu
   • Jiaole Wang
   • Max Q.-H. Meng

   OriginalPaper 30 October 2018 Pages: 219 - 234

   

4. Dating a Synthetic Character is Like Dating a Man

   • Johan F. Hoorn
   • Elly A. Konijn
   • Matthijs A. Pontier

   OriginalPaper Open access 31 October 2018 Pages: 235 - 253

   

5. Head Impact Severity Measures for Small Social Robots Thrown During Meltdown in Autism

   • Ahmad Yaser Alhaddad
   • John-John Cabibihan
   • Andrea Bonarini

   OriginalPaper Open access 02 November 2018 Pages: 255 - 270

   

6. A Feasibility Study for Validating Robot Actions Using EEG-Based Error-Related Potentials

   • Stefan K. Ehrlich
   • Gordon Cheng

   OriginalPaper 02 November 2018 Pages: 271 - 283

   

7. Social Touch in Human–Robot Interaction: Robot-Initiated Touches can Induce Positive Responses without Extensive Prior Bonding

   • Christian J. A. M. Willemse
   • Jan B. F. van Erp

   OriginalPaper Open access 08 November 2018 Pages: 285 - 304

   

8. The Social Perception of Humanoid and Non-Humanoid Robots: Effects of Gendered and Machinelike Features

   • Steven J. Stroessner
   • Jonathan Benitez

   OriginalPaper 08 November 2018 Pages: 305 - 315

   

9. A Study on the Deployment of a Service Robot in an Elderly Care Center

   • David Portugal
   • Paulo Alvito
   • Jorge Dias

   OriginalPaper 10 November 2018 Pages: 317 - 341

   

10. Will Older Adults Accept a Humanoid Robot as a Walking Partner?

    • Deneth Karunarathne
    • Yoichi Morales
    • Hiroshi Ishiguro

    OriginalPaper 13 November 2018 Pages: 343 - 358

    

11. Adult Verbal Comprehension Performance is Better from Human Speakers than Social Robots, but only for Easy Questions

    • Adam Palanica
    • Anirudh Thommandram
    • Yan Fossat

    OriginalPaper 13 November 2018 Pages: 359 - 369