Diversity-aware social robots meet people: beyond context-aware embodied AI

Carmine Recchiuto, Antonio Sgorbissa Introduction Mayra is a 34-year-old woman from Sri Lanka who arrived in Genoa in 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic. Mayra spends her days taking care of her three children and doing housework. Due to the lockdown measures, she had few opportunities to develop relationships with Italian people, so her Italian has remained very basic. The situation did not improve until December 2021 because finding a job was challenging due to the remaining COVID restriction. In January 2022, her husband bought a small robot, and Mayra called it "Dhvija."