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  1. Gimbal-Based Human Tracking for Companion Robots Using Continual Learning

    Jul 22, 2026Cong-Thanh Vu, Ching-Chieh Liu, Yen-Chen LiuVisual Object TrackingHuman-Robot Interaction

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan 70101, Taiwan

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

    Jul 20, 2026Anastasiya Ihnatovich, Igor FarkašHumanoid Robot ControlRobot Imitation Learning

    Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University Bratislava, Mlynská dolina 6284, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia

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

    Jul 20, 2026Federico Biagi, Dario Onfiani, Simone Silenzi +1Robotic GraspingHuman-Robot Collaboration

    Department of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari", University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.

  4. Stability and Comfort in Mobile Robot-Pedestrian Interactions

    Jul 20, 2026Alireza Jafari, Hong-Son Nguyen, Yen-Chen LiuRobot NavigationSocial Robot Navigation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

  5. STAR: Skeletal Token Alignment and Rearrangement for Interaction Recognition

    Jul 19, 2026Yuhang Wen, Mengyuan Liu, Zixuan Tang +3Skeleton-Based Action RecognitionCross-Modal Representation Learning

    School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China · State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, Peking University, Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China · University at Buffalo SUNY, USA +2

  6. Articulated Humanoid Head for a Robot Receptionist Capable of Natural Human Interaction

    Jul 19, 2026Tharusha Fonseka, Charuka Bandara, Moshintha Hewavitharana +4RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Dept. of ECE National University of Singapore Singapore · Dept. of ENTC University of Moratuwa Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

  7. Autonomous VR-Based Risk Detection for Situational Awareness in Dangerous Settings

    Jul 18, 2026Mohammad Eskandari, Murali Krishna Varma Indukuri, Stephanie M. Lukin +1Human-Robot InteractionVLMs for Robotics

    Interactive Robotics and Language Lab, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, Baltimore, MD, USA. · DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, USA.

  8. Back to the museum: Investigation of the acceptance of Android Andrea with and without emotion simulation in a museum

    Jul 17, 2026Marcel Heisler, Christian Becker-AsanoRoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Hochschule der Medien · Stuttgart, Germany

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

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

    Macquarie University, Australia. · NVIDIA, Singapore.

  10. Assessing Physical Frailty and Fall-Risk Indicators with Social Robots: An in situ Evaluation with Older Adults

    Jul 16, 2026Aniol Civit, Antonio Andriella, Alba Martínez +4Assistive RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC, Llorens i Artigas 4-6, 08028 Barcelona, Spain · Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili, Area of Intermediate Care, Barcelona, Spain · RE-FiT Barcelona Research Group, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research and Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili, Barcelona, Spain +1

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

    Jul 16, 2026Jonathan Rainer Lippert, Kai Ploeger, Abir Chowdhury +3Dynamic Robotic ManipulationHuman-Robot Interaction

    Technical University of Darmstadt · Justus-Liebig University Gießen · German Research Center for AI (DFKI), 4Robotics Institute Germany +3

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

    Jul 16, 2026Jesus Moncada-Ramirez, Jose-Raul Ruiz-Sarmiento, Javier Gonzalez-JimenezAgent Communication ProtocolsLLM Agent Orchestration

    Machine Perception and Intelligent Robotics Group (MAPIR-UMA), Malaga Institute for Mechatronics Engineering and Cyber-Physical Systems (IMECH.UMA), University of Malaga, 29071 M´alaga, Spain

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

    Jul 16, 2026Zihan Guo, Xiaoqi LiRoboticsGesture Recognition

    Hainan University, China

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

    Jul 16, 2026Annette M. Masterson, Wonse Jo, Helena C. Sieh +2AI in EducationConversational Agents

    School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States · A+HRI Laboratory, Department of Information and Telecommunication Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea. · Department of Robotics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States +2

  15. 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 +4Robot Motion GenerationHuman-Robot Collaboration

    School Of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, 81 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637458 · School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Ave, Block N3, Nanyang Avenue, 639798

  16. 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 +1Robot NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    Univ. Pablo de Olavide

  17. 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 CollaborationTrust in AI

    School of Engineering Mathematics & Technology, University of Bristol

  18. Analysis of Mutual and Referential Human and Robot Gazes in a Collaborative Word Association Game

    Jul 13, 2026Jens V. Rüppel, Tim Schreiter, Andrey Rudenko +1Human-Robot CollaborationHuman-Robot Interaction

    Chair of Perception for Intelligent Systems, Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany · Robotics Insitute Germany (RIG), Germany · Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS), Örebro University, Sweden

  19. 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 +2RoboticsAutomatic Speech Recognition

    Institute of Science Tokyo, Yokohama, Japan · Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5612 AZ Eindhoven, The Netherlands · Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5612 AZ Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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

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

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA · Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

  21. Automated Synthesis of Facial Mechanisms for Conversational Animatronic Robots

    Jul 13, 2026Zongzheng Zhang, Zi Lin, Jiawen Yang +6RoboticsAudio-Driven Facial Animation

    Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) · Beihang University +1

  22. A Model for Mediating Multi-Modal Human Intent into Safe Maneuvers for UAVs

    Jul 13, 2026Sofia Nelson, Dalal Alrajeh, Pedro Antonio Alarcon Granadeno +1Aerial RoboticsSafe Motion Planning

    University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN, USA · Imperial College London London, UK

  23. 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 +2Multimodal GenerationHuman-Robot Interaction

    Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan · CyberAgent, Tokyo, Japan · The University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan

  24. 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 InteractionMultimodal Learning

    Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA · Politecnico di Milano Milan, Italy · Microsoft Research Redmond, WA, USA +2

  25. A Glimpse into Long-term Physical Coexistence with Intelligent Robots

    Jul 13, 2026Weiqi Jin, Peijun Tang, Kuncheng Luo +5Multi-Robot SystemsAssistive Robotics

    Astribot Team

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

    Jul 13, 2026Tingcong Liu, Tongshun Chen, Siyi Ma +6Robot Motion GenerationContinuum Robot Control

  27. Effects of Robotic Touch on Older Users During Walking Guidance by a Humanoid Robot

    Jul 10, 2026Leonie Leven, Marko Ackermann, Christian Werner +4Assistive RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany. · Geriatric Center, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany. · Institute of Medical Psychology, University Hospital Heidelberg, and Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. +1

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

    Jul 10, 2026Hariharan Arunachalam, Phani Teja Singamaneni, Rachid AlamiVirtual RealitySocial Robot Navigation

    LAAS-CNRS, Universite de Toulouse, France · Inria Nancy, France

  29. Empirical Pedestrian Safety Assessment in a Mobile Robot Using a Predictive Social Force Model

    Jul 10, 2026Alireza Jafari, Yun-Hao Tsai, Yen-Chen LiuSafe Robot NavigationSocial Robot Navigation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan

  30. A New Human-Likeness and Comfort Index for Robot Movements Along Prescribed Paths

    Jul 9, 2026Rosanna Coccaro, Enrico Ferrentino, Antonio Parziale +2Robot Motion GenerationHuman-Robot Interaction

    Department of Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics (DIEM), University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Italy