Human-Robot Collaboration

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Human-robot collaboration studies how people and robots share tasks, information, and control in settings such as manufacturing, assembly, transport, healthcare, and remote operation. Common approaches combine compliant or shared control with perception of human motion, intent, fatigue, and attention; task planning and assistance may use reinforcement learning, motion prediction, or vision-language models. Researchers evaluate these systems in physical workcells, simulated tasks, teleoperation studies, and user experiments, measuring safety and task performance alongside workload, trust, agency, and coordination. A central challenge is balancing proactive autonomy and efficiency with predictable behavior, robust safety, and meaningful human oversight, especially when methods tested in simulation must transfer to real people and workplaces.

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  1. Belief Dynamics for Detecting Behavioral Shifts in Safe Collaborative Manipulation

    Apr 4, 2026Devashri Naik, Divake Kumar, Nastaran Darabi +1RoboticsHuman-Robot Collaboration

    University of Illinois Chicago

  2. Joint Prediction of Human Motions and Actions in Human-Robot Collaboration

    Apr 3, 2026Alessandra Bulanti, Alessandro Carfì, Fulvio MastrogiovanniHuman Behavior PredictionHuman Motion Prediction

    University of Genoa, Italy

  3. AURA: Multimodal Shared Autonomy for Real-World Urban Navigation

    Apr 2, 2026Yukai Ma, Honglin He, Selina Song +2Shared AutonomyRobot Navigation

    University of California, Los Angeles · Zhejiang University

  4. Reconfiguration of supernumerary robotic limbs for human augmentation

    Mar 31, 2026Mustafa Mete, Anastasia Bolotnikova, Alexander Schuessler +1RoboticsAssistive Robotics

    Reconfigurable Robotics Lab, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. · Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS), CNRS, Toulouse, France.

  5. SafeDMPs: Integrating Formal Safety with DMPs for Adaptive HRI

    Mar 31, 2026Soumyodipta Nath, Pranav Tiwari, Ravi PrakashRobot Motion GenerationSafe Motion Planning

    All authors are with the Cyber Physical Systems, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, 560012, India.

  6. EBuddy: a workflow orchestrator for industrial human-machine collaboration

    Mar 30, 2026Michele Banfi, Rocco Felici, Stefano Baraldo +2Workflow AutomationHuman-AI Interaction

    Laboratory of Automation, Robotics and Machines (ARM), University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Lugano-Viganello, Switzerland

  7. Proposing a Game Theory Approach to Explore Group Dynamics with Social Robot

    Mar 30, 2026Giulia PuscedduHuman-Robot InteractionSocial Robotics

    Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy

  8. On-Demand Human Assistance for Task Continuation under Physical Action Failures in LLM-based Planning

    Mar 30, 2026Shoichi Hasegawa, Akira Taniguchi, Lotfi El Hafi +2Large Language Model-Based Robot PlanningRobot Failure Recovery

    Shoichi Hasegawa and Akira Taniguchi are with Ritsumeikan University; 2-150 Iwakura, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8570, Japan. · Akira Taniguchi is with Kyushu Institute of Technology; 680-4 Kawadu, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820-0067, Japan. · Lotfi El Hafi is with Coarobo GK; 2-2-2 Hikaridai, Seika, Soura, Kyoto 619-0237, Japan. +4

  9. Event-Driven Proactive Assistive Manipulation with Grounded Vision-Language Planning

    Mar 25, 2026Fengkai Liu, Hao Su, Haozhuang Chi +6Assistive RoboticsHuman-Robot Collaboration

    The University of Osaka · Nanyang Technological University · The University of Tokyo

  10. DiSCo: Diffusion Sequence Copilots for Shared Autonomy

    Mar 24, 2026Andy Wang, Xu Yan, Brandon McMahan +9Shared AutonomyHuman-Robot Collaboration

    University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

  11. Legged Autonomous Surface Science In Analogue Environments (LASSIE): Making Every Robotic Step Count in Planetary Exploration

    Mar 20, 2026Cristina G. Wilson, Marion Nachon, Shipeng Liu +20Robotic Data CollectionLegged Robotics

    Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, 97331, USA · Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, 77843, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 90089, USA +7

  12. HRI-SA: A Multimodal Dataset for Online Assessment of Human Situational Awareness during Remote Human-Robot Teaming

    Mar 18, 2026Hashini Senaratne, Richard Attfield, Samith Widhanapathirana +4Human-Robot Collaboration

    CSIRO Robotics: www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/robotics · Monash Robotics: www.monash.edu/engineering/robotics

  13. Encoding Predictability and Legibility for Style-Conditioned Diffusion Policy

    Mar 17, 2026Adrien Jacquet Crétides, Mouad Abrini, Hamed Rahimi +1Human-Robot CollaborationDiffusion Policy

    Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique (ISIR), CNRS UMR7222, Inserm ERL U1150, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

  14. BodyGuards: Escorting by Multiple Robots in Unknown Environment under Limited Communication

    Mar 16, 2026Zhuoli Tian, Yanze Bao, Meng GuoHuman-Robot CollaborationRobot Safety

  15. Navigation beyond Wayfinding: Robots Collaborating with Visually Impaired Users for Environmental Interactions

    Mar 15, 2026Shaojun Cai, Nuwan Janaka, Ashwin Ram +4Assistive RoboticsRobot Navigation

    National University of Singapore Singapore Singapore · City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong China · Saarland University Saarbrücken Germany +3

  16. Perceive What Matters: Relevance-Driven Scheduling for Multimodal Streaming Perception

    Mar 13, 2026Dingcheng Huang, Xiaotong Zhang, Kamal Youcef-ToumiRobotic PerceptionHuman-Robot Collaboration

    Mechatronics Research Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

  17. CoViLLM: An Adaptive Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly Framework Using Large Language Models

    Mar 12, 2026Jiabao Zhao, Jonghan Lim, Hongliang Li +1Human-Robot CollaborationRobotic Assembly

    The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

  18. SUBTA: A Framework for Supported User-Guided Bimanual Teleoperation in Structured Assembly

    Mar 11, 2026Xiao Liu, Prakash Baskaran, Songpo Li +4Robot TeleoperationHuman-Robot Collaboration

    Authors are with Honda Research Institute USA, San Jose, CA 95134 USA. · Authors are with Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, 63073 Offenbach am Main, Germany.

  19. TATIC: Task-Aware Temporal Learning for Human Intent Inference from Physical Corrections in Human-Robot Collaboration

    Mar 10, 2026Jiurun Song, Xiao Liang, Minghui ZhengHuman-Robot CollaborationHuman-Robot Interaction

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA

  20. Dance2Hesitate: A Multi-Modal Dataset of Dancer-Taught Hesitancy for Understandable Robot Motion

    Mar 10, 2026Srikrishna Bangalore Raghu, Anna Soukhovei, Divya Sai Sindhuja Vankineni +2Human-Robot CollaborationRobot Motion Generation

    University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, Colorado, United States · Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, Washington, United States

  21. Human-Aware Robot Behaviour in Self-Driving Labs

    Mar 9, 2026Satheeshkumar Veeramani, Anna Kisil, Abigail Bentley +3Human-Robot CollaborationHuman-Robot Interaction

    Department of Chemistry University of Liverpool United Kingdom · School of Computer Science and Informatics University of Liverpool United Kingdom · School of Computer Science and Informatics Department of Chemistry University of Liverpool United Kingdom

  22. Adaptive Vision-Based Control of Redundant Robots with Null-Space Interaction for Human-Robot Collaboration

    Mar 9, 2026Xiangjie Yan, Chen Chen, Xiang LiRobotic ControlHuman-Robot Collaboration

    Department of Automation, Tsinghua University

  23. Reasoning Knowledge-Gap in Drone Planning via LLM-based Active Elicitation

    Mar 8, 2026Zeyu Fang, Beomyeol Yu, Cheng Liu +5Human-Robot CollaborationLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning

    George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA · Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

  24. Knowing When to Ask: Resolving Uncertainty in Human-Robot Joint Planning via Explicit Dialogue and Implicit Intent Cues

    Mar 8, 2026Zeyu Fang, Yuxin Lin, Cheng Liu +6Human-Robot CollaborationRobot Task Planning

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University · the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University · the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, George Washington University

  25. Directing the Robot: Scaffolding Creative Human-AI-Robot Interaction

    Mar 8, 2026Jordan Aiko Deja, Isidro Butaslac, Nicko Reginio Caluya +1Human-Robot InteractionHuman-Robot Collaboration

    De La Salle University Manila, Philippines · Nara Institute of Science and Technology Ikoma, Japan · Ritsumeikan University Osaka, Japan +1

  26. Glance-Say: Multimodal Human-Robot Collaboration and Intent Recognition via Sticky Glance

    Mar 6, 2026Yuzhi Lai, Shenghai Yuan, Peizheng Li +2Robotic ControlHuman-AI Interaction

    University of Tuebingen, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz, 72074 Germany · Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798

  27. Rethinking the Role of Collaborative Robots in Rehabilitation

    Mar 5, 2026Vivek Gupte, Shalutha Rajapakshe, Emmanuel SenftHuman-Robot CollaborationAssistive Robotics

    Idiap Research Institute & EPFL, Switzerland · Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland

  28. Cognition to Control - Multi-Agent Learning for Human-Humanoid Collaborative Transport

    Mar 4, 2026Hao Zhang, Yisen Li, Ruize Geng +4Human-Robot CollaborationMulti-Agent Collaboration

    University of Texas at Arlington. · Carnegie Mellon University

  29. HALO: Learning Human-Robot Collaboration via Heterogeneous-Agent Lyapunov Policy Optimization

    Mar 4, 2026Hao Zhang, Yaru Niu, Yikai Wang +2Decentralized MARLHeterogeneous MARL

    ETAIC Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, USA · Safe AI Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

  30. UrbanHuRo: A Two-Layer Human-Robot Collaboration Framework for the Joint Optimization of Heterogeneous Urban Services

    Mar 4, 2026Tonmoy Dey, Lin Jiang, Zheng Dong +1Human-Robot CollaborationRL for Robotics

    Department of Computer Science, Florida State University. · Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University.