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Thomas H. Weisswange

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Book Open access Oct 2026

How to Greet Humans: Designing Opening Encounters for Functional Robots with Naive Users

Many robots are publicly deployed as predominantly functional machines, yet they are still perceived through a social lens and are expected to comply with basic social norms such as greeting. Designing recognizable greeting gestures for non-humanoid robots typically relies on movement specialists and a costly iterative...

Tom Hitron, Nevo Heimann Saadon, Guy Doron et al. · Companion Publication of the... · 0 citations

#robotics Preprint Sep 2026

A Robot Among People:From Social Imitation to the Social Becoming of Human Groups

This work understands robots in public spaces not in terms of autonomy or intelligence, but as a relational capacity, which implies designing robots not in the authors' image or for their utility, but grounded in their needs in being and becoming together.

Victor Tuan Vu Pham, Judith Dörrenbächer, Thomas H. Weisswange et al. · 0 citations