Jeffrey Tzu Kwan Valino Koh
National University of Singapore, UNSW Sydney, Singapore Institute of Technology
Papers
8
Total Citations
126
H-Index
4
About
Jeffrey Tzu Kwan Valino Koh is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of robotics, culture, and human-robot interaction, whose work has fundamentally shaped the emerging field of Cultural Robotics. Best known for his landmark 2013 paper "Cultural Robotics: The Culture of Robotics and Robotics in Culture" — which has accumulated 62 citations — Koh has been instrumental in defining how robots and humans may co-develop shared cultural frameworks in the 21st century. His research interrogates not merely how robots function within society, but how they participate in and actively shape cultural ecosystems, a thesis he has refined across multiple publications spanning over a decade. Beyond cultural robotics, Koh has explored robotics leadership, examining the roles robots may inherit in future human hierarchies, and contributed to the field of Lovotics — the study of human-robot love and emotional bonding. His cognitive modeling work seeks to understand the psychological determinants of human willingness to collaborate with robots, while his architectural robotics research bridges construction technology with intelligent systems. With cumulative citations exceeding 125 and an evolving body of work through 2025 emphasizing diversity and sustainability in social robotics, Koh remains a thought-provoking voice shaping how humanity will coexist with increasingly autonomous machines.
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Top Papers
- 1Cultural Robotics: The Culture of Robotics and Robotics in Culture62 citations · 2013
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- 3Cultural Robotics: Robots as Participants and Creators of Culture16 citations · 2016
- 4A Design Process for Lovotics13 citations · 2011
- 5Emergent Cultural Ecologies in Social Robotics2 citations · 2023
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- 7From Bob the Builder to Baxter the Builder2 citations · 2015
- 8Cultural Robotics: Diversified Sustainable Practices1 citations · 2025