Editorial: Social human-robot interaction (sHRI) of human-care service robots

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Editorial on the Research Topic Social human-robot interaction of human-c are service robots With the advent of an increasingly aging society and the rapid increase of distributed or single-parent families, there are increasing demands for service robots with social intelligence to be integrated into our everyday lives to improve human-care services for aging people, people who need special care, and people living alone. A consequence of this increasing demand is that robots need to have greater capabilities for social interaction and improved stable manipulability of humans and daily-use objects. It is reported that older adults and care-givers acknowledge the potential benefits of socially intelligent service robots (Broekens et al., 2009;Pino et al., 2015).Most previous service robots have been designed to perform non-interactive and physical services such as cleaning, surveillance, delivery, etc. But now robots are intended to perform socially intelligent and interactive services like reception, guidance, emotional companionship, medical intervention and so on, which makes social human-robot interaction essential to help improve aspects of quality of life, as well as to improve the efficiency of human-care services (

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“…Robots are also becoming increasingly prevalent in society, and it is likely that they will become even more important in the future. Research on social robots has been intensifying in recent years as more people use robots as companions, tools, and even as potential therapeutic agents (Sheridan, 2020 ; Jang et al, 2022 ). Social robots are utilized in different contexts, from healthcare settings to education, to entertainment, and even as personal companions (Hepp, 2020 ; Ozturkcan and Merdin-Uygur, 2022 ).…”