This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Interactive
Collaborative Robotics ICR 2017 held in Hatfield UK in September 2017 as a satellite event
of the 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer SPECOM 2017. The 30 papers
presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. This new
conference invites researchers in the area of social robotics and collaborative robotics to
share experience in human-machine interaction research and development of robotic and
cyberphysical systems. Topics addressed are: assistive robots child-robot interaction
collaborative robotics educational robotics human-robot interaction medical robotics
robotic mobility systems robots at home robot control and communication social robotics as
well as safety robot behavior.
