Human-Robot Interaction

Also known as HRI

Overview

Human-robot interaction examines how people and robots understand one another and coordinate in settings such as collaborative work, social navigation, healthcare, and the home. Researchers combine multimodal perception and language models with shared-control policies, adaptive planning, haptics, and interfaces such as augmented reality; they study these systems through user experiments, field deployments, and benchmarks for tasks like handover and social navigation. The field also draws on design research and qualitative methods to understand trust, accessibility, privacy, agency, and how interactions affect different people and groups. A central challenge is translating strong task performance in controlled tests into safe, reliable, and socially appropriate behavior in real-world settings without increasing workload or reducing human control.

Latest papers

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453 papers44 papers in the last four weeks, down 31% on the four weeks before. 0.3% of all new papers.

  1. Shared Autonomy Assisted by Impedance-Driven Anisotropic Guidance Field

    May 4, 2026Sihan Chen, Hang Xu, Yupu Lu +4Robot TeleoperationShared Autonomy

  2. Research on Vision-Language Question Answering Models for Industrial Robots

    May 2, 2026Ping Li, Bartlomiej BrzozkaVisual Question AnsweringRobotics

  3. Assistance Without Interruption: A Benchmark and LLM-based Framework for Non-Intrusive Human-Robot Assistance

    May 2, 2026Yuedi Zhang, Shuanghao Bai, Wanqi Zhou +4Large Language Model-Based Robot PlanningProactive Assistance

  4. What Does a Meow Mean? In Search of Intuitively Understandable Communication by a Nonverbal Companion Robot

    May 2, 2026Vivienne Bihe Chi, Claudia B. Rébola, Bertram F. MalleAssistive RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

  5. ARIS: Agentic and Relationship Intelligence System for Social Robots

    May 1, 2026Stavya Datta, Fucai Ke, Leimin Tian +1Agentic RAGHuman-Robot Interaction

  6. OmniRobotHome: A Multi-Camera Home Platform for Real-Time Human-Robot Interaction

    Apr 30, 2026Junyoung Lee, Inhee Lee, Kyungwon Cho +9Human Motion PredictionHuman-Robot Interaction

  7. SASI: Leveraging Sub-Action Semantics for Robust Early Action Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction

    Apr 30, 2026Yongpeng Cao, Masahiro Hirano, Hyuno Kim +1Skeleton-Based Action RecognitionHuman Activity Recognition

  8. Persona-Based Process Design for Assistive Human-Robot Workplaces for Persons with Disabilities

    Apr 29, 2026Nils Mandischer, Daria Eckert and, Lars MikelsonsHuman-Robot CollaborationHuman-Centered AI

  9. Alter-Art: Exploring Embodied Artistic Creation through a Robot Avatar

    Apr 29, 2026Do Won Park, Samuele Bordini, Giorgio Grioli +2Human-Robot Interaction

  10. IntentVLM: Open-Vocabulary Intention Recognition through Forward-Inverse Modeling with Video-Language Models

    Apr 27, 2026Hamed Rahimi, Clemence Grislain, Adrien Jacquet Cretides +2Intent ClassificationVideo-Language Models

  11. Supporting Family-School Partnerships with Robot-Facilitated Home-Based Activities

    Apr 27, 2026Michael F Xu, Qiyao Yang, Heather Kirkorian +1RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

  12. Designing Robots to Support Parent-Child Connections: Opportunities Through Robot-Mediated Communication

    Apr 27, 2026Michael F Xu, Bengisu Cagiltay, Yaxin Hu +2Human-Robot Interaction

  13. Otherness as a Quality in Designing Expressive Robotic Touch

    Apr 25, 2026Ran Zhou, Laurens Boer, Daniel Leithinger +1RoboticsHaptic Feedback

  14. Adaptive vs. Static Robot-to-Human Handover: A Study on Orientation and Approach Direction

    Apr 24, 2026Federico Biagi, Dario Onfiani, Simone Silenzi +2Human-Robot CollaborationHuman-Robot Interaction

  15. Effects of Swarm Size Variability on Operator Workload

    Apr 23, 2026William Hunt, Aleksandra Landowska, Horia A. Maior +2Multi-Robot SystemsHuman-Robot Interaction

  16. A Replicable Robotics Awareness Method Using LLM-Enabled Robotics Interaction: Evidence from a Corporate Challenge

    Apr 23, 2026S. A. Prieto, M. A. Gopee, Y. Ben Arab +3RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

  17. MOMO: A framework for seamless physical, verbal, and graphical robot skill learning and adaptation

    Apr 22, 2026Markus Knauer, Edoardo Fiorini, Maximilian Mühlbauer +10Robot Skill LearningRobot Imitation Learning

  18. LLM-Guided Safety Agent for Edge Robotics with an ISO-Compliant Perception-Compute-Control Architecture

    Apr 22, 2026Xu Huang, Ruofan Zhang, Lu Cheng +9RoboticsRobot Safety

  19. A Gesture-Based Visual Learning Model for Acoustophoretic Interactions using a Swarm of AcoustoBots

    Apr 21, 2026Alex Lin, Lei Gao, Narsimlu Kemsaram +1Multi-Robot SystemsRobotics

  20. GenerativeMPC: VLM-RAG-guided Whole-Body MPC with Virtual Impedance for Bimanual Mobile Manipulation

    Apr 21, 2026Marcelino Julio Fernando, Miguel Altamirano Cabrera, Jeffrin Sam +3Mobile ManipulationBimanual Robotic Manipulation

  21. Achieving Interaction Fluidity in a Wizard-of-Oz Robotic System: A Prototype for Fluid Error-Correction

    Apr 21, 2026Carlos Baptista De Lima, Julian Hough, Frank Förster +2Robotics SimulationHuman-Robot Interaction

  22. Warmth and Competence in the Swarm: Designing Effective Human-Robot Teams

    Apr 21, 2026Genki Miyauchi, Roderich Groß, Chaona ChenMulti-Robot SystemsSwarm Robotics

  23. Will People Enjoy a Robot Trainer? A Case Study with Snoopie the Pacerbot

    Apr 20, 2026Maximilian Du, Jennifer Grannen, Shuran Song +1Human-Robot Interaction

  24. Equanimity in HRI: Applying Calm Technology Principles to Human-Robot Interaction

    Apr 20, 2026Barbara Sienkiewicz, Bipin IndurkhyaRoboticsAssistive Robotics

  25. Continuous Focus Groups: A Longitudinal Method for Clinical HRI in Autism Care

    Apr 20, 2026Ghiglino Davide, Foglino Caterina, Wykowska AgnieszkaHuman-Robot Interaction

  26. Chatting about Conditional Trajectory Prediction

    Apr 20, 2026Yuxiang Zhao, Wei Huang, Haipeng Zeng +2Multi-Agent Trajectory PredictionHuman Behavior Prediction