Recent developments in robotics and information technology have been applied to robots to improve their perception, cognition, learning, and control abilities to enhance the performance [items 1)–6) in the Appendix]. A challenging issue on robotics research is to make the robots working around with human more flexibly and safely. To address the challenge, this special issue focuses on the latest advances in the area of human-friendly cognitive robotics, particularly, the research concentrating on methodologies, computational models, and technologies to enhance the cognitive functionalities and intelligence of human–robot systems for better interaction performance. The development of these technologies aims to bring innovations into human–robot systems.

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客座社论：关于人类友好型认知机器人的特刊

机器人技术和信息技术的最新发展已应用于机器人，以改善其感知，认知，学习和控制能力，以增强性能[附录中的项目1）–6）。机器人技术研究中的一个具有挑战性的问题是使机器人更灵活，更安全地与人类一起工作。为解决这一挑战，本期专刊着重于人类友好型认知机器人领域的最新进展，尤其是致力于提高人类机器人系统的认知功能和智能的方法论，计算模型和技术方面的研究。互动效果。这些技术的发展旨在将创新带入人机交互系统。