Abstract:This paper focuses on the conviction that has been popular within parts of the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) community and beyond that social robots are or soon will become part of our everyday lives. Given the limited availability of social robots on the market and their evident absence in everyday environments, such a conviction is viewed here as highly inaccurate, and hence, quite astonishing in its prevalence and power. We argue that since social robots continue to be research platforms in the first place,… Show more
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