This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social
Robotics ICSR 2016 held in Tsukuba Japan in November 2017.The 74 revised full papers
presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. The theme of the 2017
conference is: Embodied Interactive Robots. In addition to the technical sessions ICSR 2017
included four workshops: 1) Social Robot Intelligence for Social Human-Robot Interaction of
Service Robots 2) Human Safety and Comfort in Human-Robot Interactive Social Environments 3)
Modes of Interaction for Social Robots (MISR 2017): Postures Gestures and Microinteractions
and 4) Religion in Robotics.
