Feel-Good Robotics: Requirements on Touch for Embodiment in Assistive Robotics

The feeling of embodiment, i.e., experiencing the body as belonging to oneself and being able to integrate objects into one's bodily self-representation, is a key aspect of human self-consciousness and has been shown to importantly shape human cognition. An extension of such feelings toward rob...

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Main Authors: Philipp Beckerle, Risto Kõiva, Elsa Andrea Kirchner, Robin Bekrater-Bodmann, Strahinja Dosen, Oliver Christ, David A. Abbink, Claudio Castellini, Bigna Lenggenhager
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurorobotics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbot.2018.00084/full