Editorial: Towards HRI of everyday life

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Nowadays, it is often assumed that, at least in principle, robots in general, and social robots in particular, have the potential to increase human wellbeing across a wide range of sectors and application areas. At the same time, efforts to introduce such systems into our everyday environments have had only limited success and it is yet to be seen whether the impact of social robots on our daily lives, professional and private, will actually be beneficial. Therefore, there is a need to systematically address and study the long-term use and presence of social robots in everyday environments, where humans not only interact with robots, but also have them integrated into the totality of their lived experiences in everyday life.