Project INSIDE: towards autonomous semi-unstructured human-robot social interaction in autism therapy.

•Set of novel scenarios for human–robot interaction in the context of therapy of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.•Introduction of the INSIDE networked robot system, a modular system to support autonomous, semi-structured social interaction between humans and robots.•Introduction of the software architecture supporting the INSIDE network.•Results with the INSIDE system in real therapy sessions.