Background
The field of social robotics was started in the 1940s-50s by William Grey Walter, and developed since the early 1990s by artificial intelligence researchers, most notably, Kerstin Dautenhahn, as well as Maja Mataric, Cynthia Breazeal, Aude Billard, Yiannis Demiris, and Brian Duffy. Also related is Kansai engineering movement in Japanese science and technology --- for social robotics, see especially works by Yoshihiro Miyake, Tomio Watanabe, Hideki Kozima, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro.
Autonomy is a requirement for a social robot. A completely remote controlled robot cannot be considered to be social since it does not make decisions by itself. It is merely an extension of another human. This does not mean that the robot must be completely autonomous. A semi-autonomy still appears to be acceptable.
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