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  1. Diminishing Returns of Intelligence: The Non-Linear Relationship Between LLM Scale and User Perception in Short-Duration Open-Ended Social Human-Robot Interactions

    Aug 8, 2026Amanda Rasille Røn Volf, Morten Roed FrederiksenHuman-Ai InteractionLarge Behavior Model

  2. A Fair Objective for Human-Empowerment-Preserving AI: Desiderata, Design, and Likely Behavioral Consequences

    Aug 8, 2026Jobst Heitzig, Ram PothamHuman OversightArtificial Intelligence Agents

  3. ωω-0: A Latent Predictive World Action Model for Concurrent Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

    Aug 6, 2026Zhe Li, Zhenzhe Zhang, Yangyang Wei +8Humanoid Loco-ManipulationEfficient World-Action Model

  4. Structured LLM Reasoning for Zero-Shot Human--Robot Coordination Under Hidden Goals

    Aug 5, 2026Dong Hae Mangalindan, Anand Gokhale, Francesco Bullo +1Human-Robot CollaborationTheory-Of-Mind Reasoning

  5. Deep Learning for Real-Time Sound Order Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction

    Aug 4, 2026Rezaul Tutul, Usaid Khan, Andre Jakob +1Sound Source LocalizationMel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficient

  6. Learning Context-Aware Motion Priors for Humanoid Control

    Aug 4, 2026Yunyang Mo, Yi Gu, Yangchen Zhou +2Adversarial Motion PriorsLong-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body Control

  7. Accelerating Human-Aware Robot Trajectory Generation via Diffusion and Consistency Distillation

    Aug 4, 2026Byeong-Il Ham, Hyun-Bin Kim, Kyung-Soo KimRobot TrajectoriesHuman-Robot Interaction

  8. Toward Certified Functional Safety for Industrial Humanoid Robots: The Fail-Passive Gap and a Feasibility Study

    Aug 3, 2026Caiwu Ding, Tao Cui, Lingyun Wang +1Humanoid RoboticsRobust Fall Detection

  9. Toward Geometry-Scalable Whole-Body Touch for Humanoids: A 3D-Printed Conformal EIT Skin

    Aug 3, 2026Haofeng Chen, Carson Kohlbrenner, Jiri Kubik +6Tactile SensorsHumanoid

  10. Adaptive Human-Robot Collaborative Painting Combining Preference-Based Optimization and Dynamic Motion Primitives

    Aug 3, 2026C. Cella, M. Ristic, M. Faroni +2Human-Robot CollaborationHuman-Centered Framework

  11. Teleopit: A Full-Embodiment Humanoid Teleoperation System

    Aug 3, 2026Bingqian Wu, Zicheng Xu, Xianghui Fan +2TeleoperationMotion Retargeting

  12. Learning-Based Motion Planning for Dynamic Environments: From Foundational Algorithms to Emerging Paradigms

    Aug 1, 2026Zongyuan Shen, Shalabh Gupta, Shancheng Zhao +7Motion PlannersClassical Planning

  13. Light-Loco-Parkour: Versatile Perceptive Whole-Body Locomotion via Multi-Skill Distillation

    Aug 1, 2026Hongming Chen, Zhuoran Li, Hongxi Wang +9Parkour LocomotionTask-Centric Hybrid Whole-Body Controller

  14. Hybrid Attention Estimation Pipeline for Adaptive HRI Using an Expressive Robotic Head

    Jul 31, 2026Pablo Moraes, Monica Rodriguez, Christopher Peters +4Human-Robot Interaction

  15. Balancing of Humanoid with Object Mass: Trade-off Analyses and Lifting Control

    Jul 31, 2026Hyunjong Song, William Z. Peng, Joo H. KimTask-Centric Hybrid Whole-Body ControllerHumanoid Loco-Manipulation

  16. TacPrint: A Wearable Fingertip Tactile Sensor for Human-to-Robot Contact Reproduction

    Jul 31, 2026Yongxi Liu, Chaofan Zhang, Xingyu Zhang +4Tactile SensorsFinger

  17. Event-Based Upper-Body Humanoid Teleoperation Under Challenging Illumination

    Jul 31, 2026Haoyu Fu, Zhou Ge, Chengze Li +4TeleoperationHumanoid

  18. CLIFT: Turning Gemini Robotics On-Device into Humanoid Specialists via Non-Invasive Closed-Loop Iterative Fine-Tuning

    Jul 31, 2026Yuxin Chen, Hari Srikanth, Nathan Jew +7HumanoidRobotics

  19. Advances, challenges, and opportunities for legged robots

    Jul 31, 2026Jonas Frey, Matías Mattamala, Hae-Won Park +5Legged RobotsHumanoid

  20. When Robots Exchange Meaning: A Demo of Goal-Oriented Semantic Communications for Collaborative Robotics

    Jul 30, 2026Peizheng Li, Xinyi Lin, Sajida Gufran +1Semantic CommunicationsHuman-Robot Collaboration

  21. Corrigible Assistance in One Round: Pragmatic-Pedagogic Best Response

    Jul 29, 2026Elle Lazarski, Jaime Fernández FisacHuman-Robot CollaborationPartially Observable Markov Decision Process

  22. Partner Capability Estimation for Task-Agnostic Adaptation in Ad-Hoc Teamwork

    Jul 29, 2026Peter Tisnikar, Maja Swieczkowska, Benteng Ma +2Human-Ai CollaborationUnseen-Task Adaptation

  23. Multi-Objective Compliance-Integrated Coevolution For Simulated And Real-World Deployment Of Multi-Robot Marine Autonomy

    Jul 28, 2026Everardo Gonzalez, Tyler M. Paine, Manuel Agraz Vallejo +3Multi-Robot SystemsHuman-Robot Collaboration

  24. Belief-Aware Influence and Trust (BAIT): Shaping Human Belief During Repeated Human-Robot Interaction

    Jul 28, 2026Ye-Ji Mun, Mahsa Golchoubian, Shahabedin Sagheb +4Human-Robot InteractionModel Predictive Path Integral

  25. A Case Study on the Acceptance of a Humanoid Robotic Head Employed in Three Public Spaces

    Jul 27, 2026Marcel Heisler, Luca Randecker, Christian Becker-AsanoHuman-Robot InteractionHumanoid Robotics

  26. SHARE: Towards Head-Mounted AR with User-Centric SLAM in Shared Human-Robot Workspaces

    Jul 27, 2026Tianyuan Du, Tianyi Hu, Hanting Ye +1Human-Robot CollaborationSimultaneous Localization And Mapping

  27. Real-Time Human-Centric World Modeling for Upper-Body Human-Object Interaction

    Jul 26, 2026Chaonan Ji, Jinwei Qi, Peng Zhang +1Articulated ObjectsLong-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body Control

  28. WCM: World-Cognition Model for Generalizable Human-Robot Interaction

    Jul 25, 2026Yuzhen Chen, KC ZhouHuman-Robot InteractionEmbodied Agents

  29. One Hand Watches The Other: Dynamic Multi-Agent Cooperation for Sample-Efficient Bimanual Manipulation in Dynamic Environments

    Jul 24, 2026Jan Ole von Hartz, Abhinav Valada, Joschka BoedeckerBimanual ManipulationHuman-Robot Collaboration

  30. StARS: Socially Appropriate Robot Actions via a Recommender System-Driven Approach

    Jul 23, 2026Erencem Ozbey, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Jin Huang +1Human-Robot InteractionExecutable Robot Behavior

  31. Towards Miniature Humanoid Tele-Loco-Manipulation Using Virtual Reality and Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 22, 2026Nicolas Kosanovic, Jordan Dowdy, Jean Chagas VazHumanoid Loco-ManipulationTeleoperation

  32. Closing the Lab-to-Store Gap: A Data-Efficient Post-Training and Experience-Driven Learning VLA Framework for Retail Humanoids

    Jul 22, 2026Roger Sala Sisó, Tiago Silvério, Jakob Sand +1Vision-Language-Action ModelsExperience-Driven Learning

  33. Extreme-RGMT: Continual Learning of Highly Dynamic Skills for Robust Generalist Humanoid Control

    Jul 22, 2026Yubiao Ma, Han Yu, Kai Guo +5Long-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body ControlMotor Skills

  34. Robots Acquire Manipulation Skills in Seconds from a Single Human Video

    Jul 22, 2026Guangyan Chen, Meiling Wang, Te Cui +9Human-To-Robot TransferRobot Systems

  35. What Matters in Humanoid General Motion Tracking? An Empirical Study

    Jul 22, 2026Fabio Amadio, Enrico Mingo HoffmanHuman Motion GenerationHumanoid

  36. Learning Diverse Humanoid Tasks via Synthetic Video Scenarios without Real World Data

    Jul 22, 2026Yun-Hao Tsai, Cong-Thanh Vu, Yen-Chen LiuHuman-To-Robot TransferHumanoid

  37. Motion Primitive Discovery in a Humanoid Robot via Self-Organising Maps for Phase Recognition

    Jul 21, 2026Radovan Gregor, Igor FarkašMotor SkillsHumanoid Robotics

  38. MAGE: Human-Like Macro Placement via Agentic Multimodal Reasoning

    Jul 20, 2026Andrew B. Kahng, Sayak Kundu, Bodhisatta PramanikMultimodal AgentsHumanoid

  39. Optimization of sim-to-real transfer in the humanoid robot NICO

    Jul 20, 2026Juraj Gavura, Igor FarkašGrasp GenerationGeneralizable Robotic Manipulations

  40. Imitation of Arm Gestures by the Semi-Humanoid Robot NICO

    Jul 20, 2026Anastasiya Ihnatovich, Igor FarkašHumanoid RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

  41. Receiver-Centered Robot-to-Human Handover with Grasp-Aware Object Orientation

    Jul 20, 2026Federico Biagi, Dario Onfiani, Simone Silenzi +1Human-Robot CollaborationHuman-To-Robot Transfer

  42. From Sign Language Generation to Humanoid Execution: Vision-Language Guided Retargeting with Collision Mitigation

    Jul 20, 2026Nabeela Khan, Bowen Wu, Runwu Shi +5Sign Language RecognitionMotion Retargeting

  43. Handroid: Bridging Dexterous Hand and Humanoid

    Jul 17, 2026Ruogu Li, Chenyang Ma, Sikai Li +6Dexterous Robot HandsHumanoid

  44. PACE: Persona Adaptation through Conversational Elicitation in Human-Robot Interaction

    Jul 17, 2026Peizhen Li, Longbing Cao, Megani Rajendran +3Human-Robot InteractionPersona

  45. Scaling Behavior Foundation Model for Humanoid Robots

    Jul 16, 2026Weishuai Zeng, Kangning Yin, Xiaojie Niu +15Long-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body ControlHuman Motion

  46. Catch, Throw, Repeat: Planning for Human-Robot Partner Juggling

    Jul 16, 2026Jonathan Rainer Lippert, Kai Ploeger, Abir Chowdhury +3Human-Robot InteractionHuman Motion Prediction

  47. Human-Robot Interaction in GenAI Architectures via the Agent-Client Protocol

    Jul 16, 2026Jesus Moncada-Ramirez, Jose-Raul Ruiz-Sarmiento, Javier Gonzalez-JimenezHuman-Robot InteractionGenerative Artificial Intelligence

  48. An Intelligent-Cloud Edge Multimodal Interaction System for Robots

    Jul 16, 2026Zihan Guo, Xiaoqi LiHuman-Robot InteractionRobotic Perception

  49. Mixed-Agent Museum Tour Guide Design Improves Gendered Learning Outcomes and Visitor Preferences

    Jul 16, 2026Annette M. Masterson, Wonse Jo, Helena C. Sieh +2Human-Robot InteractionGender

  50. Zero2Skill: Bootstrapping Robot Skills through Autonomous Data Collection, Training, and Deployment

    Jul 15, 2026Boyuan Wang, Zhenyuan Zhang, Zhiqin Yang +16Human-Robot CollaborationTeleoperation

  51. Semantic Audio-driven Understanding for Dynamic Humanoid Whole Body Control

    Jul 15, 2026J. M. A. Marcelo, M. Brienza, E. Bugli +4Long-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body ControlHuman Motion

  52. Anatomy of Uncertainty: Expressive Descriptors of Robotic Manipulator Motion for Non-verbal Communication in Human-Robot Collaboration

    Jul 15, 2026Ridhima Bector, Souravik Dutta, Poornima Ramachandran +4Human-Robot CollaborationNonverbal Cues

  53. From Language to Navigation Goals: A Vision-Language Approach for Semantic Navigation of Mobile Robots Using RGB-D Perception

    Jul 15, 2026Jose Martínez-Fajardo, Pablo Pueyo, Fernando Caballero +1Social Robot NavigationAutonomous Navigation

  54. Active Trust Management for Successful Human-Robot Teaming: Moving from a Trust Repair to a Trust Satisficing Perspective

    Jul 15, 2026Nicola Webb, Edmund R. HuntHuman-Robot CollaborationAutonomy

  55. Vision-Based Dribbling for Humanoid Soccer via Privileged Representation Learning

    Jul 14, 2026Flavio Maiorana, Valerio Spagnoli, Eugenio Bugli +5BadmintonRobotic Perception

  56. GaitSpan: Growing Humanoid Locomotion from Walking to Running

    Jul 13, 2026Kwan-Yee Lin, Zilin Wang, Janelle J. Liu +1Perceptive Locomotion PoliciesLocomotion Stability

  57. Casting Everything to Online API Services? A Survey of Integrating Localized Speech Recognition Models in Robotic Systems

    Jul 13, 2026Sheng Li, Jing Li, Felix Schijve +2Automatic Speech Recognition SystemsLlm-Based Automatic Speech Recognition

  58. Requirement-Driven Design of Whole-Body Social Tactile Sensing via Virtual Human-Robot Interaction

    Jul 13, 2026Dakarai Crowder, Ruohan Zhang, Alexis E. Block +1Human-Robot Interaction

  59. Automated Synthesis of Facial Mechanisms for Conversational Animatronic Robots

    Jul 13, 2026Zongzheng Zhang, Zi Lin, Jiawen Yang +6Facial AnimationFacial Expression Recognition

  60. Breaking the 15% Barrier: A Real-World Data-Driven System for Proactive Social Robot Triggered by User Nonverbal Cues

    Jul 13, 2026Yuga Yano, Yuki Okafuji, Ryo Miyoshi +2Nonverbal CuesHuman-Robot Interaction