Topic

Human-robot interaction

Robots among people: social robots, collaboration, assistance, and the interfaces between human intent and robot action.

53papers in 2026-07

4.55%of all cs.RO that month

-0.4ppshare change, last 6 vs prior 12 months

24-month volume

arXiv query: cat:cs.RO AND (abs:"human-robot interaction" OR abs:"social robot" OR abs:"shared autonomy")

Recent work

2026-08-26

Dynamic Modeling of a Welding Torch Umbilical and Its Impact on Robot Dynamics

Nicolas Gautier, Yves Guillermit, Mathieu Porez +2

Human-robot interaction

2026-08-26

Generative Action-Chunk Sampling for Adaptive Stiffness Control in Physical Human-Robot Collaboration

Aoi Otake, Ferdinand Hartmann, Ko Igari +1

Imitation & diffusion policies Human-robot interaction

2026-08-25

Longitudinal Robot Learning from Demonstration with Care Providers in a Home Environment

Nina Moorman, Julianna Schalkwyk, Vriksha Srihari +6

ICRA 2026Foundation models & pretraining Human-robot interaction

2026-08-24

Free-Energy-Gated Plasticity for Real-Time Online Motor Learning in Physical Human-Robot Interaction

Hiroki Sawada, Jun Tani

Foundation models & pretraining Human-robot interaction

2026-08-22

Ludi${}_{\scriptscriptstyle 0.1}$: An Agentic System for Socially Intelligent Robots

Wooseong Chung, William Cong, Jakub Dworakowski +14

Navigation & mobility Foundation models & pretraining

2026-08-22

Stakeholder Insights for Designing In-Home Social Robots for Dementia Disorientation Detection and Caregiver-Aware Intervention

Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nicole Salomons

Human-robot interaction

2026-08-22

CIDER: Continual Interactive Distillation for Embodied Reinforcement Learning

Houlin Li, Minghui Xu, Guo Xu +8

Reinforcement learning & control Human-robot interaction

2026-08-21

Why did My Robot Just Change Personality? Prompting Guidelines for a Grounded Robot Persona in LLM-Based HRI

Ashita Ashok, Franziska Babel, Patrick Holthaus +7

Human-robot interaction Safety & evaluation

2026-08-21

Why Personalization Matters: Cross-Subject Challenges in EMG-IMU-based HRI Activity Recognition

Ruan Rithelle Chagas de Faria Carminati, Giovanni Braglia, Luigi Biagiotti +4

Data collection & teleoperation Human-robot interaction

2026-08-20

Humanoid Musical Robots as Experimental Interfaces for Music-Evoked Emotion

Vincent K. M. Cheung, Jia-Yeu Lin

Humanoids & locomotion Human-robot interaction

2026-08-20

Keeping the Franka Emika Panda alive: a ROS 2 stack with a reliable position interface

Antonio Langella, Davide Risi, Vincenzo Petrone +2

Data collection & teleoperation Human-robot interaction

2026-08-19

Designing Social Robots for Social-Cognition Training with Autistic Adults

Yuval Zohar, Mordi Benhamou, Guy Laban

Hardware & morphology co-design Human-robot interaction

2026-08-18

GuideFetch: A Task Coordination Framework for Concurrent Navigation and Object Retrieval in Assistive Robot Dogs

Qian Yin, Ruiping Liu, Kunyu Peng +7

ECCV 2026Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Navigation & mobility

2026-08-18

Force-Based Offset Estimation for Keyed Peg-in-Hole Assembly Using Local Gaussian Process Regression

Chandra Yuvesh Aubeeluck, Abilash Philip Madavath, Augustin Raju +3

Dexterous manipulation Human-robot interaction

2026-08-17

Design Optimization for Large High-Force Soft Robot Manipulators Under Gravitational Loads

Isara Cholaseuk, Penelope Llibre, Alexa Kyriacou +5

Hardware & morphology co-design Human-robot interaction

2026-08-17

Closing the Affective Loop: Multimodal Speaker-Listener Emotion-Dynamics-Aware Empathetic Social Robots

Zi Haur Pang, Casey Kennington, Tatsuya Kawahara

Human-robot interaction

2026-08-17

Pluralistic Human-Robot Interaction: Designing for Robot Interaction with Diverse Communities

Raj Korpan

Humanoids & locomotion Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-16

MistyPilot: Enabling Social-Robot Control through Multi-Agent LLM Skill Orchestration

Xiao Wang, Lu Dong, Ifeoma Nwogu +2

ECCV 2026Human-robot interaction

2026-08-15

GUIDER: Evaluating Goal-Free Human Intent Inference for Teleoperated Manipulation on Real-Robot Data

Nicholas Kenny, Cesar Alan Contreras, Basile Ouedraogo +3

Dexterous manipulation Human-robot interaction

2026-08-15

VTInstructor: Visual Trajectory Prompting for Navigation Instruction Generation in Continuous Environments

Haolin Yang, Yuxing Long, Zihan Yang +1

Navigation & mobility Human-robot interaction

2026-08-15

Max-Q Selective Imitation for Human-in-the-Loop Online Robot Learning

Zihang Wang, Yishan Wang

Reinforcement learning & control Human-robot interaction

2026-08-14

Ensuring Safe Physical AI in Urban Mobility via Hazard-Informed Synthesized Envelopes

Alexei Odinokov, Rostislav Yavorskiy

World models Human-robot interaction

2026-08-14

Effect of Twisted-Yarn Architecture on Pressure and Proximity Sensing Characteristics of Textile Capacitive Sensors for Robotic Skin

Ishtia Zahir, Eslam Saleh, Maryam Rezayati +2

Tactile & force sensing Human-robot interaction

2026-08-13

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

Rafal Robert Karpinski, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Nikhil Churamani +4

IROS 2026Human-robot interaction

2026-08-13

RGB-D Video Generation for Improving Human-to-Robot Object Handover Prediction

Tianyu Sun, Zhoujie Fu, Zihui Gao +2

Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Hardware & morphology co-design

2026-08-13

HumanoidVLN: A Physics-Grounded Simulator and Benchmark for Vision-Language Navigation Across Diverse Humanoid Embodiments

Quan-Dung Pham, Anh Dao, The-Anh Nguyen +8

Humanoids & locomotion Egocentric & human data

2026-08-12

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

Anh Duc Do, Volodymyr Scherbyna, Tai Duc Nguyen +5

IROS 2026Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Navigation & mobility

2026-08-10

Efficient Real-World Online Reinforcement Learning for Robot Manipulation via Centralized Training and Critic Decomposition

Changhao Li, Yifang Zhang, Heng Zhang +6

Dexterous manipulation Humanoids & locomotion

2026-08-10

High Fidelity Capture, Reconstruction, and Transfer of Human Demonstrations for Robot-Assisted Bathing

Arjun S. Lakshmipathy, Jonathan P. King, Ethan Zuo +6

RSS 2026Dexterous manipulation Egocentric & human data

2026-08-07

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

Eric Nichols, Alva Markelius, Hatice Gunes

Foundation models & pretraining Human-robot interaction

2026-08-06

Robot Learning from Human Demonstrations: Handwritten Alphabet Trajectories and Human-Likeness Evaluation

Alperen Kenan, Paul Bremner, Manuel Giuliani · 1 citation

Egocentric & human data Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-05

RORA: Realistic Object Reconstruction with Articulation

Hyesung Lee, Youngseon Lee, Kyutae Lee +2

Dexterous manipulation Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-08-04

EvoHIL: Self-Evolving Reward and Flow-Matched Policy Optimization for Robust Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning

Shuoqin Zhang, Tongtong Cheng, Xiru Gao +7

Tactile & force sensing Reinforcement learning & control

2026-08-04

Human Centric Embodied Intelligence for Soft Wearable Robotics

Rainier Natividad, Raye Chen-Hua Yeow

Hardware & morphology co-design Human-robot interaction

2026-08-01

Self Supervised Learning from Automatically Generated Demonstrations for Visual Robotic Manipulation

Andres Rivas, Anselmo R. Cukla, Rodrigo S. Guerra +2

Dexterous manipulation Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-01

Assistant Placement Aria: A Benchmark for Egocentric Placement Assistance

Amir Belder, Gonçalo Dias Pais, Refael Vivanti +5 · 1 citation

Egocentric & human data 3D & spatial reasoning

2026-08-01

Learning-Based Motion Planning for Dynamic Environments: From Foundational Algorithms to Emerging Paradigms

Zongyuan Shen, Shalabh Gupta, Shancheng Zhao +7

Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Navigation & mobility

2026-07-31

Hybrid Attention Estimation Pipeline for Adaptive HRI Using an Expressive Robotic Head

Pablo Moraes, Monica Rodriguez, Christopher Peters +4

Egocentric & human data Human-robot interaction

2026-07-30

Learning Social Robot Navigation By Sensing Human Legs

Alberto Vaglio, Andrea Garulli, Antonio Giannitrapani +2

Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Reinforcement learning & control

2026-07-27

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

Steve Aschenbrenner, Marcel Heisler, Thomas Sievers +1

Humanoids & locomotion Human-robot interaction

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