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  1. Towards an Extensible Benchmark for Spoken Dialogue with Social Robots

    Oct 6, 2026Casey Kennington, Ross Mead, Saad Elbeleidy +1Spoken Dialogue SystemsMulti-Turn Dialogue Evaluation

    Department of Computer Science Boise State University Boise, Idaho, U.S.A. · Semio Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. · Peerbots Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A. +1

  2. R2RI: A Multi-View Event and RGB Dataset for Robot-to-Robot Interaction

    Oct 5, 2026Gabriele Magrini, Riccardo Catalini, Federico Becattini +4Robotic Data CollectionRobotics

    Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy · Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy · Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics (DIISM), University of Siena, Siena, Italy

  3. From Social Reasoning to Embodied Interaction: An Agentic Framework for Social Robots

    Oct 5, 2026Ziyu Cheng, Yuewen Guo, Zhirui Liu +5Agentic ReasoningHuman-Robot Interaction

    ShanghaiTech University · InstAdapt

  4. A Procedure for Classifying Attachments and Affective Social Bonds in Human-Robot Dyads

    Sep 24, 2026Imran Khan, Elisabeth BlagroveHuman-Robot InteractionSocial Robotics

    Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom. · Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.

  5. Ask Before It Tells: Benchmark-to-Robot Body-Cue Transfer for a Question-First Bedside Robot

    Sep 21, 2026Dongsik YoonHuman Activity RecognitionAssistive Robotics

    HDC LABS, Republic of Korea

  6. Enhancing the Perception of Safety and Comfort during Physical Human-Robot Handshake Interactions by Integrating Flexible Elements into a Robotic Arm

    Sep 16, 2026Joel Hidalgo, Dennys Paillacho, Melissa Cobos +1Human-Robot InteractionSocial Robotics

    ESPOL Polytechnic University, Guayaquil, Ecuador

  7. InterSocialBench: Benchmarking Human and LLM Preferences for Companion-Robot Social Behavior

    Sep 14, 2026Yaodan Xu, Boyang Guo, Yuqing Gu +4Human Preference ModelingAI Agent Benchmarks

    Xdream Robotics

  8. A Deployable Architecture for Robot-Mediated Tasks (DART): Evaluation in Socially Assistive Robot-Guided Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Exercises

    Sep 14, 2026Mina Kian, Lydia Ignatova, Jiong Wang +12RoboticsAssistive Robotics

    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

  9. A Robot Among People:From Social Imitation to the Social Becoming of Human Groups

    Sep 14, 2026Victor Tuan Vu Pham, Judith Dörrenbächer, Thomas H. Weisswange +1RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Ubiquitous Design / Experience & Interaction, University of Siegen Siegen, Germany · Honda Research Institute Europe Offenbach am Main, Germany

  10. HiBRIDGE: A Hierarchical Bayesian Neural Network Framework for Interpretable Dialogue Management in Group-Robot Interaction

    Sep 8, 2026Massimiliano Nigro, Hatice Gunes, Micol Spitale +1Bayesian Neural NetworksHuman-Robot Interaction

    Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy · Affective Intelligence and Robotics (AFAR) Lab, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK

  11. Mind the Context: Continual Learning of Socially Appropriate Robot Actions via Environmental-Social Disentanglement

    Aug 13, 2026Rafal Robert Karpinski, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Nikhil Churamani +4Disentangled Representation LearningContinual Robot Learning

    Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands · Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK

  12. D3D-GEN: Robot-Aware Domain-Grounded Interactive 3D World Generation for Social Robotics

    Aug 12, 2026Anh Duc Do, Volodymyr Scherbyna, Tai Duc Nguyen +5Robotics SimulationFunctional 3D Scene Generation

    Singapore Management University · Technical University Berlin · Max Planck Institute +1

  13. How Should I Pick a Foundation Model for My Robot? In Favor of a Community Evaluation Framework for Social Robots

    Aug 7, 2026Eric Nichols, Alva Markelius, Hatice GunesRobot Foundation ModelsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Honda Research Institute Japan, Wako, Japan. · Affective Intelligence and Robotics Lab, University of Cambridge, UK.

  14. Feasibility of Embedded Photoplethysmography Sensing in Short-Duration Tactile Interactions With Pocket-Sized Robots Using IMU- and Confidence-Based Filtering

    Aug 4, 2026Turjja Datta, Morten Roed FrederiksenPhotoplethysmographyHuman-Robot Interaction

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

  15. Designing Social Robots for Inclusive Child Wellbeing Assessment: Insights from Communities Supporting Developmental Language Disorder and Forced Migration

    Aug 4, 2026Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Yue Lou, Alva Markelius +7Assistive RoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Department of Computer Science & Technology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK · Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden · Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden +3

  16. Not Forgotten: Implementation and Evaluation of a Personalized Episodic Memory for the Humanoid Robot Head Kim

    Jul 27, 2026Steve Aschenbrenner, Marcel Heisler, Thomas Sievers +1Conversational MemoryEpisodic Memory

    Stuttgart Media University, Germany · University of Lübeck

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

    Jul 27, 2026Marcel Heisler, Luca Randecker, Christian Becker-AsanoSpoken Dialogue SystemsHuman-Robot Interaction

    All authors are with Stuttgart Media University, Germany

  18. Robot Learning to Communicate through Projected Visual Abstractions

    Jul 24, 2026Danyang Yan, Boyuan Wang, Jiaxun Liu +1Human-Robot InteractionSocial Robotics

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University · Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University · Department of Computer Science, Duke University

  19. Teachy Mini: Development and Preliminary Evaluation of a Knowledge-Based Generative Social Robot for Higher Education

    Jul 24, 2026Stephan Vonschallen, Karim Kaufmann, Dominique Oberle +2Intelligent Tutoring SystemsGenerative AI in Education

    Institute of Information Systems, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland · Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany

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

    Jul 23, 2026Erencem Ozbey, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Jin Huang +1Human Preference ModelingHuman-Robot Interaction

    Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkiye · University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. HumAIN: Human-Aware Implicit Social Robot Navigation

    Jul 8, 2026Daeun Song, Nhat Le, Jeffrey Chen +7Social Robot NavigationRobot Motion Planning

    Ewha Womans University, Korea. · George Mason University, USA. · University of Virginia, USA. +3

  24. Designing Touch for Trauma-Informed Social Robots: A Design Space for Direct and Indirect Actuation

    Jul 6, 2026Madeleine Rischer, Benedikt BußmannMental HealthRobotics

    AI Ethics Research Hub Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany

  25. Stop Pretending Social Robots Are Inevitable

    Jun 30, 2026Serge ThillRoboticsHuman-Robot Interaction

    Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour Radboud University Nijmegen 6525GD Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  26. Vision-Language Models for Deployable Social Robot Navigation: Bridging Semantic Reasoning and Low-Level Control

    Jun 27, 2026Runji Cai, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Ling XiaoSafe Robot NavigationSocial Robot Navigation

    Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0814, Japan. · Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan.

  27. Co-Creating Buildable and Open Social Robot Study Companions with University Students

    Jun 13, 2026Farnaz Baksh, Matevž B. Zorec, Feiazie Baksh +1Robotic ConstructionRobotics

    University of Tartu, Estonia · University of Guyana Robotics Club, Guyana

  28. 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.

  29. Auditing LLM-Governed Social Robots with Culture-Specific Moral Gradients

    Jun 2, 2026Carmen Ng, Gjergji KasneciMultilingual Language Model EvaluationMoral Reasoning in Language Models

    Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

  30. 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