on the variety and diffusion of service robots in the EU, in order to describe the state of automation in the service … sector. Service robots are tangible artefacts of automation technology in the service sector and are relatively well defined … show that the penetration of service robots is currently relatively low in the European economy, especially when compared …

towards these humanoid robots. This model is an influential theory in human-robot interaction and helps us understand …The uncanny valley model explains the relationship between the resemblance that robots have to humans and attitudes … and ultimately makes contributions to research on human-robot interactions. …