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  1. Exploration of Foundation Model-Based Robots in Patient and Elderly Care

    Jun 8, 2026Zhiwen Qiu, Wei Liu, Yuexing HaoRobot Foundation ModelsRobotics

    1Cornell University, Ithaca, 14850, USA · Department of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, 85054, USA · 3Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

  2. Real-time body pose non-verbal communication with a consistency-based reliability measure

    Jun 8, 2026Alina Marcu, Dragos Costea, Cristina Lazar +1Uncertainty QuantificationGesture Recognition

    National University of Science and Technology "Politehnica" Bucharest · "Simion Stoilow" Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy · NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS

  3. Safe, Fluent and Acceptable Motion Generation and Execution for Human--Robot Interaction in Manufacturing Environments

    Jun 7, 2026Thibaut Lopez, Olivier Aycard, Pierre-Brice Wieber +2Robot Motion GenerationSafe Motion Planning

    GIPSA Lab and Grenoble Institute of Technology, 38000 Grenoble, France · Inria, 38000 Grenoble, France · LIP/PC2S and Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, 38000 Grenoble, France

  4. Toward Interaction Dynamics: A Predictive Framework for Safe Physical Human Robot Interaction

    Jun 6, 2026Yongyan Cao, Jinshan TangModel Predictive ControlHuman-Robot Interaction

  5. Cybernetic Android Avatar "Yui": System Integration, Field Deployment, and Evaluation

    Jun 6, 2026Kaoruko Shinkawa, Mizuki Nakajima, Taisei Mogi +1Robot TeleoperationRobotics

    Department of Mechanical and Intelligent Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu, 182-8585, Tokyo, Japan. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo Denki University, 5 Senjuasahicho, Adachi-ku, 120-8551, Tokyo, Japan.

  6. An Abstract Architecture for Explainable Autonomy in Hazardous Environments

    Jun 5, 2026Matt Luckcuck, Hazel M Taylor, Marie FarrellExplainable Artificial IntelligenceRobotics

    Department of Computer Science, & Hamilton Institute„ Maynooth University„ Ireland · Department of Computer Science„ University of Manchester„ United Kingdom

  7. A Multi-Operator Mixed-Reality Interface for Multi-Robot Control and Coordination: Co-Located and Private Workspace Collaboration

    Jun 5, 2026Omotoye Shamsudeen Adekoya, Antonio Sgorbissa, Carmine Tommaso RecchiutoRobot TeleoperationMulti-Robot Coordination

    DIBRIS Department, RICE Laboratory, University of Genoa, Italy

  8. What Is My Robot Thinking? Design Considerations for Transparent and Trustworthy Shared Autonomy

    Jun 5, 2026Atharv Belsare, Zohre Karimi, Connor Mattson +2Shared AutonomyAssistive Robotics

    Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. · Robotics Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

  9. Face versus Body Tracking for Human-Robot Interaction: An Egocentric Dataset

    Jun 2, 2026Jessica Wenninger, Gabriel SkantzeHuman-Robot InteractionMulti-Object Tracking

    Furhat Robotics, Stockholm, Sweden · University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

  10. BotDirector: Robot Storytelling Across the Symmetrical Reality with Multi-modal Interactions

    Jun 2, 2026Zhe Sun, Meng Wang, Lei Wang +4Interactive StorytellingHuman-Robot Interaction

    State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, BIGAI, Beijing, China · Peking University, Beijing, China

  11. Permissive Safety Through Trusted Inference: Verifiable Belief-Space Neural Safety Filters for Assured Interactive Robotics

    Jun 1, 2026Haimin HuRoboticsSafety Filtering

    Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA

  12. Adaptive PD Gains for Energy-Conscious Control in Physical Human-Robot Interaction

    May 30, 2026Danyal Saqib, Francisco Andrade Chavez, Marie CharbonneauRobotic ControlHuman-Robot Interaction

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada · Department of Engineering Thompson Rivers University Kamloops, Canada · Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering University of Calgary Calgary, Canada

  13. Gaze2Act: Gaze-Conditioned Vision-Language-Action Policies for Interactive Robot Manipulation

    May 28, 2026Kuangji Zuo, Gen Li, Bofan Lyu +9Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    1MARS Lab, Nanyang Technological University

  14. Decentralized LLM-Driven Coordination of Acoustic Robots for Contactless Object Manipulation

    May 28, 2026Yingying Wang, Narsimlu Kemsaram, Sriram SubramanianLarge Language Model-Based Robot PlanningMulti-Robot Coordination

    Department of Computer Science, University College London, United Kingdom. · Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

  15. Tactile-Proprioceptive Sensor Fusion for Contact Wrench Estimation in Whole-Body Physical Human-Robot Interaction

    May 27, 2026Junha Min, Junghyeon Ma, Jiwung Kwon +3Tactile SensingHuman-Robot Interaction

    Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology), Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea · Kinetic Intelligent Machine Lab (KIMLAB), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61801, USA

  16. Robo-Blocks: Generative Scaffolding in End-User Design and Programming of Social Robots

    May 27, 2026Arissa J. Sato, Callie Y. Kim, Nathan Thomas White +4Programming EducationRobotics

    Department of Computer Sciences University of Wisconsin–Madison

  17. Whose Is This?: Context-Aware Object Ownership Inference with Uncertainty-Guided Questioning

    May 27, 2026Saki Hashimoto, Akira Taniguchi, Shoichi Hasegawa +2Human-Robot Interaction

    Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan · College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan · Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan +3

  18. Synthetic Emotions vs. Gamification: Exploring Engagement Strategies for Small Social Robots in Different Age Groups

    May 26, 2026Morten Roed Frederiksen, Kasper StøyAssistive RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Data Systems & Robotics Department of The IT-University of Copenhagen

  19. Look Further: Socially-Compliant Navigation System in Residential Buildings

    May 26, 2026Akira Shiba, Marina Obata, Nathan Kau +4Robot NavigationSocial Robot Navigation

    Woven by Toyota, Inc., Japan

  20. Passivity-based Semi-autonomous Rotational Motion Navigation for Rigid-body Networks: Stability and Human Passivity Analysis

    May 23, 2026Reiji Terunuma, Yuta Nakamura, Takeshi HatanakaMulti-Robot SystemsFeedback Control

    Institute of Science Tokyo

  21. PACT: Proactive Asking for Continual Task Assistance in Human-Robot Collaboration

    May 23, 2026Chengbo He, Sheng Li, Chenyang Ma +6Proactive AssistanceHuman-Robot Collaboration

    University of Science and Technology Beijing · University of Oxford · 3Tsinghua University

  22. 6G Communication Networks Enabling Embodied Agents: Architecture and Prototype

    May 22, 2026Lipeng Dai, Luping Xiang, Kun Yang6G NetworksRobot Teleoperation

    State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210008, China · Institute of Intelligent Networks and Communications (NINE), Nanjing University (Suzhou Campus), Suzhou, 215163, China

  23. GesVLA: Gesture-Aware Vision-Language-Action Model Embedded Representations

    May 21, 2026Wenxuan Guo, Ziyuan Li, Meng Zhang +7Multimodal GroundingRobotic Manipulation

    1Tsinghua University · 2Dexmal

  24. Astro, I'm Home! Investigating Factors that Influence the Acceptance of Home Robots Using Supervised Machine Learning

    May 21, 2026Katrin Fischer, Essence Wilson, Steffie Kim +1Human-Robot InteractionSocial Robotics

    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA

  25. Perception of Social Robots as Communication Partners in Healthcare for Older Adults

    May 20, 2026Hana Yamamoto, Carlotta Julia Mayer, Charlotte Raithel +5RoboticsAssistive Robotics

    Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Adenauerring 12, Karlsruhe, 76131, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. · Department of Robotics, Tohoku University, Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8579, Miyagi, Japan. · Institute of Medical Psychology, Heidelberg University, Bergheimer Str. 20, Heidelberg, 69115, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. +2

  26. Multi-Week, In-Class Deployments of Telepresence Robots With Four Homebound K-12 Students: Benefits, Challenges, and Recommendations

    May 19, 2026Matthew Rueben, Rhianna Lee, Thomas R. Groechel +4Educational TechnologyRobot Teleoperation

    Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. · Los Angeles, CA, USA. · Colby College, Waterville, ME, USA. +1

  27. CANINE: Coaching Visually Impaired Users for Interactive Navigation with a Robot Guide Dog

    May 19, 2026Cunjun Yu, Zishuo Wang, Anxing Xiao +2Assistive RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    School of Computing, 2Smart Systems Institute National University of Singapore

  28. "I'm Not Mad, Just Focused'': Understanding Human Emotions in Human-Robot Collaboration

    May 16, 2026Seung Chan Hong, Dana Kulić, Leimin TianHuman-Robot CollaborationHuman-Robot Interaction

    Faculty of Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia · CSIRO Robotics, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia

  29. Beyond Collision Avoidance: Multi-Robot Yielding and Spatial Affordance in Emergency Evacuations

    May 15, 2026Ning Zhou, Edmund R. Hunt, Nikolai W. F. BodeRobot NavigationSocial Robot Navigation

    School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

  30. Designing for Robot Wranglers: A Synthesis of Literature and Practice

    May 15, 2026David Porfirio, Ian McDermott, Hsin-Mei Chen +3RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Computer Science Department George Mason University Fairfax, VA, USA · Department of Computer Science/Department of Art University of Maryland College Park, MA, USA · Houston Methodist Houston, TX, USA +3