About this Research Topic
As well as embodiment in a virtual body it is possible to become embodied in a robot body. Wearing a HMD the participant sees through cameras mounted in the eye position of a remote robot. As the participant moves so the movements are transmitted to the remote robot so that the robot moves the same. Therefore, from the point of view of the participant it is as if their consciousness has been transferred to the robot body, which might be thousands of kilometres distant.
This Research Topic is focussed on this concept of embodiment, and the corresponding implications of perceptual body ownership, agency and illusory agency. Papers in any aspect of embodiment through technological means such as VR or robotics would be welcome. The following are examples but submissions need not be limited to these:
• Technological advances in embodiment, whether through virtual or augmented reality, or teleoperations through robots
• The implications of transformed body ownership for physiology, behaviour, attitudes, cognition.
• Advances in understanding of how the brain represents the body and its actions through embodiment.
• Applications in the field of health, physical or psychological rehabilitation.
• Applications in entertainment, the media, and news.
• The implications of embodiment for ethics and law.
Any type of Frontiers paper can be submitted. See https://www.frontiersin.org/about/author-guidelines (Summary Table).
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Topic editor Christoph Guger is CEO of g.tec. Mel Slater is CSO and founder of Virtual Bodyworks S.L. All other topic editors declare no competing interests with regards to the Research Topic subject.
Cover image is reproduced from the article "Multi-Destination Beaming: Apparently Being in Three Places at Once through Robotic and Virtual Embodiment", published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI in 2016.
Keywords: Embodiment, Body Ownership, Agency, Virtual Reality, Robotics
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