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 1 October 2026How to express social presence: a comparison of perceptions of social robots’ cognitive abilitiesThomas Sievers · Nele RusswinkelFrontiers in Robotics and AIdoi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1938840
Original ResearchPublished 30 September 2026Enabling Quechua speech in humanoid social robots through fine-tuned neural TTS on the UBTech Walker TienkungPercy Castro-Mejia · William Atalaya-Urrutia · Alejandro Cruzata-Martinez · Erick Salazar-Montoya · Alberto Jimenez-Garcia · Juan Arcila-DiazFrontiers in Robotics and AIdoi 10.3389/frobt.2026.1909076
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
PerspectivePublished 17 September 2026ISEED: an always-on cognitive architecture for experience-driven interaction-oriented humanoid robotsDario Pasquali · Francesco Rea · Pietro Morasso · Giulio Sandini · Alessandra SciuttiFrontiers in Neuroroboticsdoi 10.3389/fnbot.2026.1920808
Brief Research ReportPublished 23 June 2026Long-term care residents and staff perspectives on PARO using video-reflexive ethnography (VRE)Yuka Ohno · Janna Zeid · Karen Lok Yi Wong · Lillian HungFrontiers in Dementiadoi 10.3389/frdem.2026.1823277
Original ResearchPublished 18 May 2026Social robot design preferences as reported by stakeholdersMatthew Green · Dzung Dao · Sam Canning · Wendy MoyleFrontiers in Dementiadoi 10.3389/frdem.2026.1821891
