Empathy and Emotion in Social Robots

The topic I plan to address in my doctoral research is based on social robots and their potential impact on interaction. In this paper I outline the goals of the doctoral project, which include creating a cloud-based architecture for modeling user-robot interaction and developing various services such as emotion and face recognition, domain ontology-based services, and user modeling. I also describe what I am focusing on at the moment, empathy in social robots, what I am looking forward to in the nearer future.