Human-Robot Collaboration & Companionship Lab (HRC²) at Cornell University
The HRC² Lab, directed by Guy Hoffman, studies computational, engineering, and social aspects of human-robot interactions. The lab focuses on designing personal robotic companions and collaborative robots that support human values through understanding human behaviors and needs.
Notable achievements
Research in human-robot teamwork, personal robotic companions, non-anthropomorphic robot design
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
Beyond rigid automation: A review of vision-language-action models for adaptive human–robot disassembly
Baki Ul Islam, Joao Paulo Jacomini Prioli, Jose Carlos Hernandez Azucena
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2027
Copilot: A framework for integrating LLM and BMI to enhance human–robot interaction
Siyu Liu, Mengzhen Liu, Zhiyuan Ming +6 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
Artificial pushing adaptive coordinated control for the human-exoskeleton-walker system
Xinhao Zhang, Chen Yang, Chaobin Zou +4 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
A Glimpse into Long-term Physical Coexistence with Intelligent Robots
Weiqi Jin, Peijun Tang, Kuncheng Luo +5 more
2026
Think When It Matters: Conditional VLM Reasoning for Social Navigation with RL Policies
Ali Ahmadi, Hamed Rahimi, Adrien Jacquet Cretides +3 more
2026
Empirical Pedestrian Safety Assessment in a Mobile Robot Using a Predictive Social Force Model
Alireza Jafari, Yun-Hao Tsai, Yen-Chen Liu
2026