arXiv:2608. 02411v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Care robots are increasingly being introduced into healthcare settings, raising important questions about their acceptance and ethical implementation.
By Laura Londo\~no, Klaus Baumann, Abhinav Valada, Markus Langer
arXiv:2606. 10208v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Demand for older-adult and patient care is growing rapidly as populations age worldwide.
By Zhiwen Qiu, Wei Liu, Yuexing Hao
arXiv:2607. 06344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While personalisation is becoming a defining capability in human-robot interaction (HRI), the existing literature on responsible personalisation remains fragmented, offering isolated accounts of ethical risks without a structured understanding of how they emerge across interaction contexts.
By Antonio Andriella, Jauwairia Nasir, Andrea Rezzani, Alyssa Kubota, Dimitri Lacroix, Tamlin Love, Aniol Civit, Vicky Charisi, Elisabeth Andre, Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie
While personalisation is becoming a defining capability in human-robot interaction (HRI), the existing literature on responsible personalisation remains fragmented, offering isolated accounts of ethical risks without a structured understanding of how they emerge across interaction contexts. This gap is particularly critical in HRI, where robots' embodiment and social presence can amplify and reshape such risks or generate new types of risks.
arXiv:2607. 16428v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For a second time, the android robot Andrea was set up at a public museum in Germany for six consecutive days to have conversations with visitors, fully autonomously.
By Marcel Heisler, Christian Becker-Asano
arXiv:2606. 28345v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-governed social robots increasingly decide who receives real-world assistance first.
By Carmen Ng, Gjergji Kasneci