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Total Citations
211
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About
Richard Savery is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of robotics, music, and human-robot interaction, whose work has fundamentally advanced how robots communicate emotion and build trust with human collaborators. His research explores how musical expression — particularly emotional prosody, gesture sonification, and improvisation — can serve as a powerful medium for conveying robotic intent, mood, and status in ways that feel natural and engaging to humans. Savery's most influential contribution, "Establishing Human-Robot Trust through Music-Driven Robotic Emotion Prosody and Gesture" (42 citations), demonstrated that affective trust between humans and robots can be meaningfully cultivated through emotionally expressive sound and movement. This work laid the groundwork for subsequent studies on robotic arm communication, group robot dynamics, and sonification as a safety tool. His comprehensive survey of 1,427 publications on robotics and emotion (33 citations) has become an essential reference for the field, offering researchers a systematic framework for comparing emotional interaction models. Beyond trust and communication, Savery's creative robotics projects — including Shimon the singing and rapping robot — showcase his commitment to making robots genuine artistic collaborators. With over 180 cumulative citations, his body of work is shaping the future of expressive, emotionally intelligent robotic systems.
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- 4RoboGroove: Creating Fluid Motion for Dancing Robotic Arms22 citations · 2022
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- 7Emotion Musical Prosody for Robotic Groups and Entitativity11 citations · 2021
- 8Shimon Sings-Robotic Musicianship Finds Its Voice9 citations · 2021
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