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Social Robot Paradigms: An Overview

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Bio-Inspired Systems: Computational and Ambient Intelligence (IWANN 2009)

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This article overviews the current and diverse paradigms about a social robot. We discuss and contextualize key aspects about the mechanisms used by this type of robot to relate with humans, other robots and its surrounded social environment: interaction, communication, physical and environmental embodiment and autonomy. We enrich current definitions and discuss about the crucial role of the purpose of this type of robots within nowadays society.

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  1. Centre d’Estudis Tecnològics per a la Dependència, CETpD Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC, Spain

    Sergi del Moral, Diego Pardo & Cecilio Angulo

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  1. Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). E.T.S.I. de Telecomunicación., , , ,, Campus Norte, Edificio C4, C/ Jordi Girona, 1-3, E08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Joan Cabestany

  2. Grupo ISIS, Dpto. Tecnología Electrónica ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad de Málaga, Campus de Teatinos, 29071, Málaga, Spain

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  3. Department of Computer Architecture and Computer Technology, University of Granada, Spain

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  4. Department of Informatics, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado

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del Moral, S., Pardo, D., Angulo, C. (2009). Social Robot Paradigms: An Overview. In: Cabestany, J., Sandoval, F., Prieto, A., Corchado, J.M. (eds) Bio-Inspired Systems: Computational and Ambient Intelligence. IWANN 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5517. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02478-8_97

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