[2603.20200] Your Robot Will Feel You Now: Empathy in Robots and Embodied Agents

Computer Science > Robotics arXiv:2603.20200 (cs) [Submitted on 12 Feb 2026] Title:Your Robot Will Feel You Now: Empathy in Robots and Embodied Agents Authors:Angelica Lim, Ö. Nilay Yalçin View a PDF of the paper titled Your Robot Will Feel You Now: Empathy in Robots and Embodied Agents, by Angelica Lim and \"O. Nilay Yal\c{c}in View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:The fields of human-robot interaction (HRI) and embodied conversational agents (ECAs) have long studied how empathy could be implemented in machines. One of the major drivers has been the goal of giving multimodal social and emotional intelligence to these artificially intelligent agents, which interact with people through facial expressions, body, gesture, and speech. What empathic behaviors and models have these fields implemented by mimicking human and animal behavior? In what ways have they explored creating machine-specific analogies? This chapter aims to review the knowledge from these studies, towards applying the lessons learned to today's ubiquitous, language-based agents such as ChatGPT. Comments: Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) Cite as: arXiv:2603.20200 [cs.RO]   (or arXiv:2603.20200v1 [cs.RO] for this version)   https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.20200 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Angelica Lim [view email] [v1] Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:07:44 UTC (864 KB) Full-text links: Access Pape...