%0 Journal Article %T Roboty społeczne i praca socjalna %A Campa, Riccardo %J Zeszyty Pracy Socjalnej %V 2016 %R 10.4467/24496138PS.16.005.6275 %N Tom 21, Numer 2 %P 65-75 %K social robots, social work %@ 1507-4285 %D 2016 %U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/zeszyty-pracy-socjalnej/artykul/roboty-spoleczne-i-praca-socjalna %X The goal of this article is to seek a path of cooperation between engineers and sociologists in view of the construction of increasingly sophisticated social robots. First, I show how humanoid and animaloidcompanion robots are used in the field of applied sociology and social work. Secondly, I explore several problems relating to social robotics, and in particular those of effectiveness and safety of human-robot interaction. Finally, I emphasize that two key concepts in this research area are scenario and persona. Trained sociologists and psychologists may give a substantive contribution to the development of social robotics by helping engineers in the creation of scenarios and personas.