Humanfriendly Robotics 2021 Hfr 14th International Workshop on Humanfriendly Robotics

Robotics is at the cusp of dramatic transformation. Increasingly complex robots with unprecedented autonomy are finding new applications, from medical surgery, to construction, to home services.

by H. Levent Akin (Editor), Nancy M. Amato (Editor), Volkan Isler (Editor), A. Frank van der Stappen (Editor)

This book of Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing contains accepted papers presented at CISIS 2021 and ICEUTE 2021, all conferences held in the beautiful and historic city of Bilbao (Spain), in September 2021.

This book features selected papers presented at the 16th International Conference on Electromechanics and Robotics ‘Zavalishin’s Readings’ – ER(ZR) 2021, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, on April 14–17, 2021. The contributions, written by professionals, researchers and students, cover topics in the field of automatic control systems, electromechanics, electric power engineering and electrical engineering, mechatronics, robotics, automation and vibration technologies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2021, held in Singapore, Singapore, in November 2021. The conference was held as a hybrid event.
The 64 full papers and 15 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 114 submissions. The conference presents topics on humans and intelligent robots and on the integration of robots into the fabric of our society. The theme of the 2021 edition was “Robotics in our everyday lives”, emphasizing on the increasing importance of robotics in human daily living.