Book by Alexis M. Elder. Published by Routledge. 230 pages. Various emerging technologies, from social robotics to social media, appeal to our desire for social interactions, while avoiding some of . . .
News article by Sherry Turkle. Published in The Washington Post. Excerpt: Jibo the robot swivels around when it hears its name and tilts its touchscreen face upward, expectantly. “I am . . .
Documentary produced by the University of Cambridge. Runtime 14 minutes. Can a robot be a true friend? Are we lonely enough to consider relationships with machines? What is companionship and . . .
Website led by Professor Andrew McStay of Bangor University (Wales, UK). Contains social science insights, project details, art projects, analyses and reports on technologies that pertain to detect and interact . . .
Book by Richard Yonck. Published by Arcade Publishing. 328 pages. Imagine a robotic stuffed animal that can read and respond to a child’s emotional state, a commercial that can recognize . . .
Article by Jason Borenstein and Ronald C. Arkin. Published in AI and Society. Abstract: An under-examined aspect of human–robot interaction that warrants further exploration is whether robots should be permitted . . .
Documentary produced by the University of Cambridge. Runtime 12 minutes. Pain in The Machine considers whether robots should feel pain. Pain is a feeling that most would describe as being . . .
Lecture by Daniel McDuff. Presented at TEDxBerlin. Daniel McDuff is building and utilizing scalable computer vision and machine learning tools to enable the automated recognition and analysis of emotions and . . .
Article by Kevin LaGrandeur. Book chapter in Beyond Artificial Intelligence. Edited by Jan Romport, Eva Zackova and Jozef Kelemen. Published by Springer. Abstract: The growing body of work in the . . .
Article by Masahiro Mori. Published in the Japanese journal Energy in 1970. Reprinted in IEEE Spectrum. IEEE Spectrum Editor’s note: More than 40 years ago, Masahiro Mori, then a robotics professor . . .
By David McFarland. Published by Oxford University Press. 256 pages. When we interact with animals, we intuitively read thoughts and feelings into their expressions and actions. It is easy–often irresistible–to suppose . . .
Book edited by Jean-Marc Fellous and Michael A. Arbib. Published by Oxford University Press. 416 pages. The idea that some day robots may have emotions has captured the imagination of . . .