Clark Herbert H, Fischer Kerstin
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2130, USA
Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, DK-6400 Sonderborg, Denmark
Behav Brain Sci. 2023 Apr 5;46:e51. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X22002825.
We take up issues raised in the commentaries about our proposal that social robots are depictions of social agents. Among these issues are the realism of social agents, experiencing robots, communicating with robots, anthropomorphism, and attributing traits to robots. We end with comments about the future of social robots.