This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social
Robotics ICSR 2016 held in Kansas City MO USA in November 2016. The 98 revised full papers
presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions. The theme of the 2016
conference is Sociorobotics: Design and implementation of social behaviors of robots
interacting with each other and humans. In addition to technical sessions ICSR 2016 included
three workshops: The Synthetic Method in Social Robotics (SMSR 2016) Social Robots: A Tool to
Advance Interventions for Autism and Using Social Robots to Improve the Quality of Life in the
Elderly.
