Editorial: Special issue on social human–robot interaction for human-care robots

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Social human–robot interaction aims to replicate human intelligence for interpersonal communication so that robots can communicate with human users in a more natural and safe way—a human way. It is well perceived that social interaction significantly promotes efficacy of personal robot services in various areas, e.g., telepresence, elderly care, rehabilitation, education, intervention therapy and guidance [1‐4]. Moreover, recent studies increasingly have provided interesting clues that social interaction improves productivity, promotes safety and reduces users’ psychological tension while working with professional service robots, e.g., industrial collaborative robots, delivery robots and multi-or-swarm robots [5, 6]. It is our mission with this special issue to introduce recent work done in designing, implementing and validating technical approaches to realize social human–robot interaction. …