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Human-Robot Interaction research enters new areas of interest, besides technical developments and engineering approaches. The interest in the roles robots can possibly play in future societies steadily grows. Topics like acceptability, ethics, and sustainability become more and more spotlighted when studying social robots. Questions arise like: what makes a robot socially accepted (long-term), what are the societal implications of integrating robots into education, working or health contexts etc. All these topics will be addressed in this special issue. In this special issue, topical research will be presented on how socially acceptable robotic systems should be designed, developed, and assessed and what societal impact robots could have in the future. A combination of reviews on existing measures and metrics for the assessment of social acceptance, structural frameworks towards social and societal acceptance, and endings from Human-Robot Interaction studies will be discussed. Moreover, key challenges (and possible ways to address some of them) social robots pose in terms of technological, designorientated, and user-centered aspects will be highlighted. All articles in this special issue underline the importance of taking the aspect of social acceptability in social robotics research into account and place emphasis on how to integrate social acceptability into research projects. In the first article “Review of human studies methods in HRI and recommendations”, Cindy L. Bethel and Robin R. Murphy present a thorough survey on research methods for

Special Issue on Robots for Future Societies: Evaluating Social Acceptance and Societal Impact of Robots