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

arXiv:2609.12937 · cs.RO, cs.CY, cs.HC · Submitted 2026-09-11 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.CY, cs.HC

Submitted: 2026-09-11

Updated: 2026-09-18

Terminology

• Actor — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accountability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Entanglement — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Quantum Physics — 1× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• A Survey of Multi-Agent Human-Robot Interaction Systems

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