Robot-Assisted Therapy (RAT) has successfully been used to improve social skills in
children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) through remote control of the robot in so-called …

One of the main restrictions of commercial cobots can be found in their limited payload to
mass ratios. Flexible link manipulators seem to offer interesting advantages over traditional …

Social robots are thought to be motivating tools in play tasks with children with autism
spectrum disorders. Thirty children with autism were included using a repeated measurements …

Robot-assisted therapy (RAT) offers potential advantages for improving the social skills of
children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). This article provides an overview of the …

Robots have been used in joint attention (JA) tasks with children with autism spectrum disorder
(ASD). However, very few studies compared JA performance of children with ASD with …

To investigate the effect of gestures in human–robot interaction, a number of social robots
capable of gesturing have been designed. Gestures are often preprogrammed off-line or …

Gesturing is an important modality in human–robot interaction. Up to date, gestures are often
implemented for a specific robot configuration and therefore not easily transferable to other …

Since social robots are aimed to interact and communicate with humans in a natural way
and operate in our daily environment, their design should be adapted to this. Although many …

Social robots have been proven beneficial in different types of healthcare interventions. An
ongoing trend is to develop (semi-)autonomous socially assistive robotic systems in …

The assembly industry is shifting more towards customizable products, or requiring assembly
of small batches. This requires a lot of reprogramming, which is expensive because a …