ReviewFrontiers in psychology2017
Ethorobotics: A New Approach to Human-Robot Relationship.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Factors Contributing to Successful Spontaneous Dog-Human Cooperation.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Effects of a cognitive-based intervention program using social robot PIO on cognitive function, depression, loneliness, and quality of life of older adults living alone.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- The Zoomorphic Miro Robot's Affective Expression Design and Perceived Appearance.International journal of social robotics · 2022Article
- Exploring behaviours perceived as important for human-Dog bonding and their translation to a robotic platform.PloS one · 2022Article
- Going Beyond the "Synthetic Method": New Paradigms Cross-Fertilizing Robotics and Cognitive Neuroscience.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- A Dynamic Model of Evolutionary Knowledge and Capabilities Based on Human-Machine Interaction in Smart Manufactures.Computational intelligence and neuroscience · 2022Article
- Searching where the treasure is: on the emergence of human companion animal partnership (HCAP).Animal cognition · 2021Review
- Human-dog relationships as a working framework for exploring human-robot attachment: a multidisciplinary review.Animal cognition · 2021Review
- Parental Acceptance of Children's Storytelling Robots: A Projection of the Uncanny Valley of AI.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2021Article
- Open-source five degree of freedom motion platform for investigating fish-robot interaction.HardwareX · 2020Article
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Abstract
Here we aim to lay the theoretical foundations of human-robot relationship drawing upon insights from disciplines that govern relevant human behaviors: ecology and ethology. We show how the paradox of the so called "uncanny valley hypothesis" can be solved by applying the "niche" concept to social robots, and relying on the natural behavior of humans. Instead of striving to build human-like social robots, engineers should construct robots that are able to maximize their performance in their niche (being optimal for some specific functions), and if they are endowed with appropriate form of social competence then humans will eventually interact with them independent of their embodiment. This new discipline, which we call
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