The effect of empathy on remote social connections via paired robots

• Satoru Suzuki ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Satoru Suzuki, Noriaki Imaoka, Takeshi Ando, Misako Uchida, Kenji Suzuki

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: suzuki.satoru-dr@jp.panasonic.com

  Affiliation Robot Promotion Office, Manufacturing Innovation Division, Panasonic Holdings Corporation, Kadoma, Osaka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1991-2993

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• Noriaki Imaoka ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Satoru Suzuki, Noriaki Imaoka, Takeshi Ando, Misako Uchida, Kenji Suzuki

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Robot Promotion Office, Manufacturing Innovation Division, Panasonic Holdings Corporation, Kadoma, Osaka, Japan

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• Takeshi Ando ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Satoru Suzuki, Noriaki Imaoka, Takeshi Ando, Misako Uchida, Kenji Suzuki

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Robot Promotion Office, Manufacturing Innovation Division, Panasonic Holdings Corporation, Kadoma, Osaka, Japan

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• Misako Uchida ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Satoru Suzuki, Noriaki Imaoka, Takeshi Ando, Misako Uchida, Kenji Suzuki

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Kenji Suzuki

  Contributed equally to this work with: Satoru Suzuki, Noriaki Imaoka, Takeshi Ando, Misako Uchida, Kenji Suzuki

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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