Multimodal Social Robots for Wellbeing and Health Support

A new Research Topic in Frontiers in Robotics and AI focuses on „Multimodal Social Robots for Wellbeing and Health Support“. It explores the rapidly advancing field of socially intelligent, multimodal robotic systems and is led by Ilona Buchem, John-John Cabibihan, Wafa Johal, and Oliver Bendel. The initiative brings together researchers working on multimodal interaction, affective sensing, and embodied AI to address key challenges in designing, evaluating, and deploying these systems in real-world contexts. The call welcomes original research, reviews, methods, protocols, technology reports, theoretical work, perspectives, case studies, and clinical studies, aiming to shape future standards in social robotics. Manuscript summaries are due on March 16, 2026, with full submissions accepted until June 16, 2026, and the journal will provide editorial and promotional support to strengthen the visibility and impact of the collection. Full details and submission information are available on the Research Topic page.

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