Original ResearchPublished 9 October 2026Preclinical evaluation of a safety-aware multimodal robotic pipeline for human–robot interaction in post-stroke rehabilitationBruna Maria Vittoria Guerra · Roberto Soldi · Francesco Lunghi · Stefania Sozzi · Leo Russo · Micaela Schmid · Stefano RamatFrontiers in Digital Healthdoi 10.3389/fdgth.2026.1951309
Original ResearchPublished 9 October 2026The impact of encouraging utterances by a human partner and a conversational robot on older adults’ subjective well-being: a 6-week sustained interactionLingxuan Xiang · Hideaki KikuchiFrontiers in Robotics and AIdoi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1866995
Original ResearchPublished 23 September 2026Calm beats cute: designing aesthetic-functional congruence in human-robot interaction for breathing companion robotsIlona Buchem · Rinat B. Rosenberg-Kima · Emily Evermann · Mandana SutterFrontiers in Cognitiondoi 10.3389/fcogn.2026.1886795
Original ResearchPublished 21 September 2026LLM-Storyteller: child-guided narrative co-creation via real-time adaptive prompting and visualization with an embodied robotFatimah Alali · Saad EzziniFrontiers in Robotics and AIdoi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1882463
Original ResearchPublished 15 September 2026Designing for gender, age & proficiency: an empirical study of the cognitive ergonomics of dual-task interference in industrial human-robot collaborationSomeshwar Roy · Igal Peretz · Lior Sayfeld · Yael EdanFrontiers in Neuroroboticsdoi 10.3389/fnbot.2026.1222566
Systematic ReviewPublished 11 September 2026Emotion recognition and human-robot interaction: a systematic review of methods and applicationsIraide Seijo Barquin · Juan Alejandro Castano · Virginia Ruiz Garate · Antonio J. del-AmaFrontiers in Robotics and AIdoi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1891746
OpinionPublished 8 September 2026Totalization by design: anthropomorphic responsiveness and ethical limits in human–robot interactionTheresa S. S. SchilhabFrontiers in Computer Sciencedoi 10.3389/fcomp.2026.1892907
Original ResearchPublished 26 August 2026An online survey of encouragement strategies for older adults’ daily worries: a conversational robot versus a human partnerLingxuan Xiang · Marin Nishimura · Hideaki KikuchiFrontiers in Robotics and AIdoi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1843519
ReviewPublished 23 July 2026AI-driven quadruped robots: from fundamental locomotion to advanced biomimetic behaviorsLikai Wu · Chee-Onn Chow · Wei Ru Wong · Joon Huang Chuah · Jeevan Kanesan · Meina ZhangFrontiers in Neuroroboticsdoi 10.3389/fnbot.2026.1855550
ReviewPublished 3 June 2026Humanlikeness as design, anthropomorphism as inference: a conceptual framework for human–robot interactionElizabeth K. Phillips · Ewart J. de VisserFrontiers in Cognitiondoi 10.3389/fcogn.2026.1786256
Control EngineeringPublished 29 November 2022Negotiation-based cooperative planning of local trajectoriesJulian Schneider · Simon Rothfuß · Sören HohmannFrontiers in Control Engineeringdoi 10.3389/fcteg.2022.1058980
ICTPublished 2 March 2018Message Encryption in Robot Operating System: Collateral Effects of Hardening Mobile RobotsFrancisco J. Rodríguez-Lera · Vicente Matellán-Olivera · Jesús Balsa-Comerón · Ángel Manuel Guerrero-Higueras · Camino Fernández-LlamasFrontiers in ICTdoi 10.3389/fict.2018.00002
