Humanizing Artificial Touch: Skin, Sensing, and Structures contains recent advances in artificial skin modelling and robotic tactile sensing technologies, integrating these in the structure of an artificial hand mimicking its important features. This book will give special treatment to the relationship between the artificial skin material and embedded tactile sensors, describing how artificial skin and embedded sensors can be designed and constructed using 3D printing technologies with cas...

Bunny and Chick are so...different. Can they find a way to work together to fill their Easter basket? Celebrate individuality and friendship as you discover what the two friends share in this rhyming story full of springtime surprises!

Fox gathers food as the winter winds begin to howl. Will she make it back home with her nibbles? Burrow into this nutty tale and find out how an act of kindness can fill more than just Fox’s belly.

Fox gathers food as the winter winds begin to howl. Will she make it back home with her nibbles? Burrow into this nutty tale and find out how an act of kindness can fill more than just Fox’s belly.

Bunny and Chick are so...different. Can they find a way to work together to fill their Easter basket? Celebrate individuality and friendship as you discover what the two friends share in this rhyming story full of springtime surprises!

The 3-volume set LNAI 16131 -16133 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference, ICSR+AI 2025, held in Naples, Italy, during September 10–12, 2025.The 117 full papers and 57 short papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 276 submissions.They focus on the topical sections:Part 1 Emotion & Affective Interaction; Applications in Real-World Case Studies; LLMs & Conversational / Verbal Interaction; Motion Control, ...

The 3-volume set LNAI 15561-15563 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR + AI 2024, held in Odense, Denmark, during October 23–26, 2024.The 109 full papers and 19 short papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 182 submissions. The theme of this year's conference was "Empowering Humanity: The Tole of Social and Collaborative Robotics in Shaping Our Future". The contributions focus on soci...

The 3-volume set LNAI 15561-15563 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR + AI 2024, held in Odense, Denmark, during October 23–26, 2024.The 109 full papers and 19 short papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 182 submissions. The theme of this year's conference was "Empowering Humanity: The Tole of Social and Collaborative Robotics in Shaping Our Future". The contributions focus on soci...

The two-volume set LNAI 14453 and 14454 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2023, held in Doha, Qatar, during December 4–7, 2023.The 68 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. They deal with topics around the interaction between humans and intelligent robots and on the integration of robots into the fabric of society. This year the spec...

A heartwarming storybook that takes toddlers on a journey through a full range of emotions and teaches them a simple calming rhyme to manage their big feelings.Does your toddler have feelings so big it feels like their body could burst? Harper, a young tiger who experiences a whirlwind of emotions on her first show-and-tell day at preschool, can absolutely relate! In Harper Handles Big Feelings, author Jayme Yannuzzi crafts an engaging and empathetic story...

The two-volume set LNAI 13817 and 13818 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2022, which took place in Florence, Italy, in December 2022.The 111 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Social robot navigation and interaction capabilities (voice, tactile); Social robot perception and control capabili...

The 3-volume set LNAI 16131 -16133 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference, ICSR+AI 2025, held in Naples, Italy, during September 10–12, 2025.The 117 full papers and 57 short papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 276 submissions.They focus on the topical sections:Part 1 Emotion & Affective Interaction; Applications in Real-World Case Studies; LLMs & Conversational / Verbal Interaction; Motion Control, ...