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  1. ERR@HRI 3.0 Challenge: Multimodal Detection of Errors and Anticipation in Human-Robot Interactions

    Jul 13, 2026Maria Teresa Parreira, Micol Spitale, Maia Stiber +5Human-Robot InteractionErrors

  2. Whole-Body Semantic-to-Actuation Grounding of Elephant-Inspired Soft-Trunk Motion via Lightweight Flow Matching

    Jul 13, 2026Tingcong Liu, Tongshun Chen, Siyi Ma +6Human-Robot InteractionEnd-Effector Pose

  3. Robotic Contextual Awareness for Human-Robot Collaboration and Environmental Understanding

    Jul 11, 2026Federico RolloHuman-Robot CollaborationContext-Aware Extension

  4. Validating Virtual Reality for Studying Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction in Socially Aware Robot Navigation

    Jul 10, 2026Hariharan Arunachalam, Phani Teja Singamaneni, Rachid AlamiHuman-Robot InteractionVirtual Reality

  5. AgenticFocus: Object-Preserving Mixed Reality Synthesis from Human FPV Video for Dexterous Humanoid Learning

    Jul 9, 2026Iaroslav Kolomiets, Miguel Altamirano Cabrera, Artem Lykov +6Egocentric VideoCross-Embodiment Transfer

  6. In vivo feasibility study of humanoid robots in surgery

    Jul 8, 2026Zekai Liang, Nikita Thareja, Peihan Zhang +7Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive SurgeryGradient Surgery

  7. Immersive Social Interaction with VR and LLM-Assisted Humanoids

    Jul 8, 2026Niraj Pudasaini, Geeta Chandra Raju Bethala, Pranav Doma +2TeleoperationLong-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body Control

  8. Initiation Safety: A Missing Dimension in Generalist-Robot Safety

    Jul 8, 2026Zhijin Meng, Francisco CruzSafetyAuthorization

  9. Multimodal Voice Activity Projection for Turn-Taking in Social Robots with Voice-Activity-Related Pretrained Encoders

    Jul 8, 2026Antonio Cano, Guillermo Pérez, Luis Merino +1Turn-TakingHuman-Robot Interaction

  10. CoMind: Understanding Collaborative Human Activity from Multiple Minds and Views

    Jul 7, 2026Alexey Gavryushin, Dingxi Zhang, Zhao Huang +8Egocentric DatasetCollaboration

  11. Embodied Human-Robot Interaction via Acoustics: A MARL Approach with AcoustoBots for Spatial Data Physicalization

    Jul 7, 2026Shiqi Liu, Narsimlu Kemsaram, Prateek Mittal +2Human-Robot InteractionEmbodied

  12. WristMimic: Full-Body Humanoid Control with Wrist-Guided Manipulation

    Jul 7, 2026Wongyun Yu, Youngwoon Kim, Minsu ChoWristLong-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body Control

  13. Responsible Personalisation: The Double-Edged Sword of Personalisation in Human-Robot Interaction

    Jul 7, 2026Antonio Andriella, Jauwairia Nasir, Andrea Rezzani +7Human-Robot InteractionPersonalization

  14. ThorArena: Benchmarking Humanoid Physical Interaction with Human Motion-Force Demonstrations

    Jul 7, 2026Chenhao Yu, Hongwu Wang, Weitao Zhang +5Task-Centric Hybrid Whole-Body ControllerHuman Motion Generation

  15. A Bayesian framework for the uncanny valley in humanoid robot design

    Jul 7, 2026Shimon Honda, Rin Shibano, Hideyoshi YanagisawaHumanoid RoboticsAnthropomorphism

  16. Athena-WBC: Capability-Aligned Policy Experts for Long-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body Control

    Jul 6, 2026Yuan Jiang, Ningyuan Zhang, Xicun Yang +2Long-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body ControlTask-Centric Hybrid Whole-Body Controller

  17. HRIBench: Benchmarking Interaction-Centric Human-Robot Collaboration

    Jul 5, 2026Chang Liu, Jiawei Zhang, Tao Zhang +3Human-Robot CollaborationCollaboration

  18. Worldscape-MoE: A Unified Mixture-of-Experts World Model for Scalable Heterogeneous Action Control

    Jul 4, 2026Jianjie Fang, Yongyan Xu, Ziyou Wang +13Efficient World-Action ModelLong-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body Control

  19. Human-Centric Reflective Architecture for Human-AI Collaborative Decision-Making

    Jul 3, 2026Andreas Kouridakis, Dimitrios Patiniotis Spyropoulos, George VourosHuman-Ai CollaborationHuman-Centered Framework

  20. Beyond Heuristics: A Standardized Real2Sim Pipeline for Physical Human Robot Interaction in Human-in-the-Loop Simulation

    Jul 3, 2026Chengyuan Yang, Yifan Wang, Chun Kwang Tan +5Human-Robot InteractionSim-To-Real Gap

  21. The Individual-Targeting Assumption: A Systematic Review of Proactive Robots in Human Group Settings

    Jul 2, 2026Tauhid Tanjim, Tasmia Mayen, Malte F. Jung +1Human-Robot InteractionGroup

  22. SPLC: Social Preference Learning for Crowd Robot Navigation

    Jul 2, 2026Zixuan Chen, Hao Fu, Haiwen Hu +1Social Robot NavigationHuman-Robot Collaboration

  23. Robots Ask the Way: Communication-Enabled Social Navigation

    Jul 1, 2026Valentino Sacco, Luca Scofano, Indro Spinelli +1Social Robot NavigationHuman-Robot Interaction

  24. From Technical Metrics to User Perception: A User Study of a Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction System for Object Detection and Grasping

    Jul 1, 2026Jian Song, Tian Zi, Shen GuantingHuman-Robot InteractionTraining-Free Hand-Object Interaction Detection

  25. Stop Pretending Social Robots Are Inevitable

    Jun 30, 2026Serge ThillHuman-Robot InteractionRobot Systems

  26. Human-as-Humanoid: Enabling Zero-Shot Humanoid Learning from Ego-Exo Human Videos with Human-Aligned Embodiments

    Jun 30, 2026Xiaopeng Lin, Ruoqi Yang, Shijie Lian +14Long-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body ControlTeleoperation

  27. Reinforcement Learning-Based Control for an Inline Skating Humanoid Robot

    Jun 30, 2026Ethan Marot, Thomas Bi, Clemens Schwarke +3Adaptive LocomotionHumanoid Robotics

  28. FastDSAC: Enhancing Policy Plasticity via Constrained Exploration for Scalable Humanoid Locomotion

    Jun 30, 2026Guanchen Lu, Yajuan Dun, Yi Zhou +4Deep Reinforcement LearningEfficient Exploration

  29. LLM-Powered Interactive Robotic Action Synthesis from Multimodal Speech, Gestures, and Music

    Jun 30, 2026Snehasis Banerjee, Ranjan DasguptaHuman-Robot Interaction

  30. REPAIR-Bench: A Benchmark for Robot Error Perception And Interaction Recovery

    Jun 29, 2026Giuliano Pioldi, Yashika Batra, Arman Ibrayeva +4Human-Robot InteractionRobot Failures

  31. Understanding LLM Intervention Explanations in Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction

    Jun 28, 2026Micol Spitale, Massimiliano Nigro, Emily CrossMulti-Agent Large Language Model SystemsHuman-Ai Interaction

  32. A Linear Matching Bandit Approach to Online Multi-Human Multi-Robot Teaming

    Jun 28, 2026Yaohui Guo, X. Jessie Yang, Cong ShiBipartite Perfect MatchingsMulti-Robot Systems

  33. AnyBody: Free-Form Whole-Body Humanoid Control from Arbitrary Keypoint Guidance

    Jun 28, 2026Shuning Li, Sikai Li, Jiachen Li +1Long-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body ControlKeypoint Detection

  34. What Color is the Sky (for a non-human) ?

    Jun 27, 2026Yair Weiss, Ofer SpringerHumanHumanoid

  35. Human2Any: Human-to-Robot Transfer via Constraint-Aware Compositional Planning

    Jun 27, 2026Shuo Cheng, Chuye Zhang, Alfred Cueva +3Human-Robot InteractionEmbodiment

  36. FADA: Few-Shot Domain Adaptation via Dynamics Alignment for Humanoid Control

    Jun 26, 2026Angchen Xie, Nikhil Sobanbabu, Ishayu Shikhare +3Long-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body ControlInverse Dynamics

  37. SceneBot: Contact-Prompted General Humanoid Whole Body Tracking with Scene-Interaction

    Jun 25, 2026Sirui Chen, Shibo Zhao, Zhen Wu +3Long-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body ControlHuman Motion Generation

  38. HumanoidUMI: Bridging Robot-Free Demonstrations and Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation

    Jun 25, 2026Hongwu Wang, Chenhao Yu, Youhao Hu +3Scalable Robot Data SynthesisHumanoid

  39. Bridging Talk and Thought: Understanding Dialogue Dynamics Across Collaborative Problem-Solving Contexts

    Jun 25, 2026Zhengyuan Liu, Stella Xin Yin, Min-Yen Kan +1Modular Agentic FrameworkDialogue

  40. Identifying the Unknown: Prompt-Free Open Vocabulary Anomaly Recognition for Robot-Object Interaction

    Jun 25, 2026Philipp Allgeuer, Jan-Gerrit Habekost, Stefan WermterOpen-VocabularyRobotic Perception

  41. DanceDuo: Bridging Human Movement and AI Choreography

    Jun 25, 2026Gia-Cat Bui-Le, Tuong-Vy Truong-Thuy, Hai-Dang Nguyen +1DuetHumanoid

  42. A System for Fast, Resilient, and Adaptable Loco-Manipulation Behaviors on Humanoid Robots

    Jun 24, 2026Duncan William CalvertHumanoid Loco-ManipulationHumanoid Robotics

  43. Charting the Growth of Social-Physical HRI (spHRI): A Systematic Review Pipeline Augmented by Small Language Models

    Jun 24, 2026Mayumi Mohan, Ju-Hung Chen, Alexis E. BlockSystematic ReviewSmall Language Models

  44. TaskNPoint: How to Teach Your Humanoid to Hit a Backhand in Minutes

    Jun 24, 2026Blake Werner, Ilona Demler, Pietro Perona +1BadmintonHuman-To-Robot Transfer

  45. Emcar: Embodied Controller for Animating Robots

    Jun 24, 2026Carlos Gomez Cubero, Elizabeth JochumHuman-Robot CollaborationRobot Systems

  46. OmniContact: Chaining Meta-Skills via Contact Flow for Generalizable Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

    Jun 24, 2026Runyi Yu, Xiaoyi Lin, Ji Ma +11Humanoid Loco-ManipulationContact-Rich Manipulation

  47. Learning Asynchronous Upper-body Task-space Trajectory Tracking Policy for Humanoid Robots

    Jun 24, 2026Yumeng Liu, Dongqi Wang, Jiyu Yu +3Long-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body ControlRobot Trajectories

  48. WOLF-VLA: Whole-Body Humanoid Optimal Locomotion Framework for Vision-Language-Action Learning

    Jun 24, 2026Melya Boukheddimi, Omar Adjali, Daniel Sontag +1Vision-Language-Action ModelsTask-Centric Hybrid Whole-Body Controller

  49. One Body, Two Minds: Variable Autonomy Approach for a Co-embodied Robotic Hand

    Jun 24, 2026Piotr Koczy, Yuchong Zhang, Danica Kragic +1Human-Robot CollaborationDexterous Robot Hands

  50. Self Capacitive Tactile Sensor System designed for Companion Robots

    Jun 24, 2026Mohsin Ali, Hidenobu Sumioka, Shuhei IkemotoTactile SensorsHumanoid Robotics

  51. ARTOO-DARTU: Studying AR-HRC With AR Obstruction Mitigation During a Warehouse Task

    Jun 23, 2026Christian Fronk, Hanting Ye, Zhehan Qu +1Human-Robot CollaborationWarehouse Automation

  52. fARfetch: Enabling Collocated AR-HRC in Large Visually Diverse Environments with VLM-Driven AR Content Adaptation

    Jun 23, 2026Christian Fronk, Hanting Ye, David Hunt +2Human-Robot Collaboration

  53. Toward Low-Latency Vision-Language Models with Doubly-Correct Predictions in Egocentric Visual Understanding

    Jun 23, 2026Qitong Wang, Fan Du, Pranav Maneriker +2Large Vision Language ModelsEgocentric Vision

  54. FT-WBC: Learning Fault-Tolerant Whole-Body Control for Legged Loco-Manipulation

    Jun 23, 2026Yudong Zhong, Pengfei Mai, Sikai Guo +6Task-Centric Hybrid Whole-Body ControllerHumanoid Loco-Manipulation

  55. Legible and Intuitive Multi-modal Robot State and Intent Communication Validated in Online and Real-world Studies

    Jun 23, 2026Tim Schreiter, Jens V. Rüppel, Andrey Rudenko +2Human-Robot InteractionRobot Systems

  56. LaST-HD: Learning Latent Physical Reasoning from Scalable Human Data for Robot Manipulation

    Jun 22, 2026Jiaming Liu, Yinxi Wang, Chenyang Gu +15Human-To-Robot TransferHuman-Robot Collaboration

  57. When Robots Rate Their Own Interactions: Engagement Validity and the Strangeness Failure

    Jun 22, 2026Victor Lockwood, Hasan Mahmud, Mohammad Javad Khojasteh +2Human-Robot InteractionAgentic Evaluations

  58. Integrated cloud-based architecture for robot-robot and human-robot collaboration using ROS 2--MQTT in Mediterranean Greenhouses

    Jun 21, 2026F. Cañadas-Aránega, M. Muñoz, J. C. Moreno +1Multi-Robot SystemsMediterranean Greenhouses

  59. Gold Points Sniper: Self-guided Visual Reasoning in VLM for Fine-grained Action Understanding

    Jun 21, 2026Haodi Liu, Xinhang Yang, Kunda Yan +3Fine-Grained ActionsOpen-Vocabulary Action Recognition

  60. A Taxonomy of Conceptual Alignment in Human-Robot Dialogue

    Jun 21, 2026Shengchen Zhang, Xiaohua Sun, Weiwei GuoHuman-Robot InteractionArtificial Intelligence Alignment