What is a robot companion - friend, assistant or butler?

By Kerstin Dautenhahn, S. Woods, C. Kaouri, M. Walters, Kheng Lee Koay, I. Werry. 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2005

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Genetics, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

How may I serve you?: a robot companion approaching a seated person in a helping context (2006, background): “A number of previous live HRI trials with human scaled PeopleBot TM robots have been carried out [ 6 , 17, 19, 20].”
In the hands of machines? The future of aged care (2006, background): “The first way in which, it has been suggested, programmable machines might contribute to aged care is in their traditional science-fiction role of robot butlers or robot servants (Brezeal, 2002, pp. 1–4; Dautenhahn et al., 2005; Severin, 2004, pp. 8–10, 15–17).”
Exploring influencing variables for the acceptance of social robots (2013, background): “In the study of Dautenhahn [42] on futuristic social roles of robots, 70% of the participants have indicated that they would eventually prefer to have companionship with robots.”
Geometrical Invariance and Smoothness Maximization for Task-Space Movement Generation (2016, unknown): “[24].”
"My Roomba Is Rambo": Intimate Home Appliances (2007, background): “For example, one of our interview questions asked, ‘what does Roomba mean to you?’ Responding to that question, we found that people expect the domestic robots to become companions (also observed in [7]).”
Title of paper : KASPAR – A Minimally Expressive Humanoid Robot for Human-Robot Interaction Research (2009, unknown): “…of the robot and willingness to engage with the robot will not only fundamentally influence the outcome of human-robot interaction experiments, but will also impact the acceptance of any robots designed for use in human society as companions or assistants (Dautenhahn, 2007; Dautenhahn et al. 2005).”
Avoiding the uncanny valley: robot appearance, personality and consistency of behavior in an attention-seeking home scenario for a robot companion (2008, background): “Survey results from Khan (1998), Scopelliti et al. (2004) and Dautenhahn et al. (2005) indicated that people do not want domestic robots to exhibit very realistic human-like appearances, so the robot appearances considered for this study were limited to mechanoid or humanoid.”