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<p><b>Special Issue "Applications and Trends in Social Robotics"</b></p>
<p>A special issue of <a
href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics"><i>Electronics</i></a>
(ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "<a
href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sections/Artificial_Intell">Artificial
Intelligence</a>".(<b>Impac Factor: 1.764</b>)</p>
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<span class="si-deadline">Deadline for manuscript submissions: <b>15
June 2020</b></span>.
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/trends_social_robotics">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/trends_social_robotics</a></p>
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<p>Dear Colleagues,</p>
<p>Social robots are intended to coexist with humans and engage in
relationships that lead them to a better quality of life. The
success of these relationships relies on a positive perception of
the robots that can be achieved by their behavior through AI,
computational models, or robot embodiments. This Special Issue
aims to foster the development of innovative ideas, novel
applications and relevant studies that contribute to the
integration of social robots in our daily society. </p>
<p>The Special Issue welcomes original contributions describing
technically rigorous scientific and philosophical advances in the
area of social robotics and AI: innovative ideas and concepts, new
discoveries and improvements, and novel applications on advances
in the social robotics technologies.</p>
<p>The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the
following:</p>
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<li>Affective and cognitive sciences for socially interactive
robots</li>
<li>Context awareness, expectation, and intention understanding</li>
<li>Control architectures for social robotics</li>
<li>Human augmentation, rehabilitation, and medical robots</li>
<li>Interaction and collaboration among robots, humans, and
environments</li>
<li>Personal robots for the home</li>
<li>Robot applications in education, entertainment, and gaming</li>
<li>Robot ethics in human society</li>
<li>Robots that can adapt to different users</li>
<li>Robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilities</li>
<li>Robots with personality</li>
<li>Safety in robots working in human spaces</li>
<li>Socially assistive robots to improve quality of life</li>
<li>Social acceptance and impact in the society</li>
<li>Socially appealing design methodologies</li>
<li>Real experiences with social robots</li>
<li>Assessing interaction in social robotics</li>
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<p><b>Guest Editors</b><br>
María Malfaz<br>
Department of Systems Engineering and Automation<br>
Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain<br>
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José Carlos Castillo<br>
Department of Systems Engineering and Automation<br>
Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain<br>
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Álvaro Castro<br>
Department of Systems Engineering and Automation<br>
Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain<br>
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Fernando Alonso <br>
Department of Systems Engineering and Automation<br>
Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain</p>
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<p>Best Regards, <br>
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<p>Maria Malfaz<br>
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