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Companion Robots

Companion Robots is a category of socially assistive robots designed to provide emotional support, cognitive engagement, and social interaction to users, distinguished by their capacity to establish affective bonds and sustain long-term relational dynamics in human-robot interaction.

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2017–2026

602

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Publications

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A survey of socially interactive robots

Terrence Fong, Illah Nourbakhsh, Kerstin Dautenhahn · Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2003 · 3.1K citations · Full text

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Emotion and sociable humanoid robots

Cynthia Breazeal · International Journal of Human-Computer Studies · 2003 · 1.3K citations

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Service Robots Rising: How Humanoid Robots Influence Service Experiences and Elicit Compensatory Consumer Responses

Martin Mende, Maura L. Scott, Jenny van Doorn et al. · Journal of Marketing Research · 2019 · 1.1K citations · Full text

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Social Robots for Long-Term Interaction: A Survey

Iolanda Leite, Carlos Martinho, Ana Paiva · International Journal of Social Robotics · 2013 · 841 citations · Full text

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Robot ethics: the ethical and social implications of robotics

Choice Reviews Online · 2012 · 795 citations

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Authors

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  1. CB
    Cynthia Breazeal

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    37 publications · 5.2K citations

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  2. KD
    Kerstin Dautenhahn

    University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    32 publications · 6.2K citations

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  3. TS
    Takanori Shibata

    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

    25 publications · 2.4K citations

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  4. HI
    Hiroshi Ishiguro

    The University of Osaka, Japan

    31 publications · 1.3K citations

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  5. TK
    Takayuki Kanda

    Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Japan

    24 publications · 1.2K citations

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Institutions

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    27 h-index

    73 publications

    10K citations

  2. University of Hertfordshire

    Hatfield, United Kingdom

    24 h-index

    106 publications

    15.3K citations

  3. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    20 h-index

    77 publications

    18.7K citations

  4. The University of Osaka

    Osaka, Japan

    18 h-index

    78 publications

    2.5K citations

  5. Indiana University Bloomington

    Bloomington, United States

    17 h-index

    69 publications

    3.7K citations

  6. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    16 h-index

    60 publications

    2.4K citations

  7. University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, United States

    16 h-index

    48 publications

    5.7K citations

  8. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

    Tsukuba, Japan

    15 h-index

    40 publications

    4.6K citations

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Venues

  1. International Journal of Social Robotics

    69 publications · 6K citations

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  2. Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics

    15 publications · 690 citations

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  3. Computers in Human Behavior

    13 publications · 1.5K citations

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  5. Frontiers in Robotics and AI

    13 publications · 342 citations

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