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HRI papers(32,268)
Clear ✕Semantic-Contact Fields for Category-Level Generalizable Tactile Tool Manipulation
Kevin Yuchen Ma, Heng Zhang, Weisi Lin +2 more
2026
Ontological grounding for sound and natural robot explanations via large language models
Alberto Olivares-Alarcos, Muhammad Ahsan, Satrio Sanjaya +2 more
2026
XIT: Exploration and Exploitation Informed Trees for Active Gas Distribution Mapping in Unknown Environments
Mal Fazliu, Matthew Coombes, Sen Wang +1 more
2026
Force Sensing for Wearable Human-Robot Interfaces via Fluidic Innervation
Noah Rubin, Ava Schraeder, Hrishikesh Sahu +2 more
2026
How Do We Research Human-Robot Interaction in the Age of Large Language Models? A Systematic Review
Yufeng Wang, Yuan Xu, Anastasia Nikolova +4 more
2026
Never say never: Exploring the effects of available knowledge on agent persuasiveness in controlled physiotherapy motivation dialogues
Stephan Vonschallen, Rahel Häusler, Theresa Schmiedel +1 more
2026
Adding internal audio sensing to internal vision enables human-like in-hand fabric recognition with soft robotic fingertips
Iris Andrussow, Jans Solano, Benjamin A. Richardson +2 more
2026
Knowledge-Based Design Requirements for Generative Social Robots in Higher Education
Stephan Vonschallen, Dominique Oberle, Theresa Schmiedel +1 more
2026
CLOT: Closed-Loop Global Motion Tracking for Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation
Tengjie Zhu, Guanyu Cai, Yang Zhaohui +8 more
2026
SafeFlowMPC: Predictive and Safe Trajectory Planning for Robot Manipulators with Learning-based Policies
Thies Oelerich, Gerald Ebmer, Christian Hartl-Nesic +1 more
2026
Media Framing Moderates Risk-Benefit Perceptions and Value Tradeoffs in Human-Robot Collaboration
Philipp Brauner, Felix Glawe, Luisa Vervier +1 more
2026
Scaling Single Human Demonstrations for Imitation Learning using Generative Foundational Models
Nick Heppert, Minh Quang Nguyen, Abhinav Valada
2026
PMG: Parameterized Motion Generator for Human-like Locomotion Control
Chenxi Han, Yuheng Min, Zihao Huang +4 more
2026
PISHYAR: A Socially Intelligent Smart Cane for Indoor Social Navigation and Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction for Visually Impaired People
Mahdi Haghighat Joo, Maryam Karimi Jafari, Alireza Taheri
2026
CRAFT: Adapting VLA Models to Contact-rich Manipulation via Force-aware Curriculum Fine-tuning
Yike Zhang, Yaonan Wang, Xinxin Sun +6 more
2026
Your Robot Will Feel You Now: Empathy in Robots and Embodied Agents
Angelica Lim, Ö. Nilay Yalçin
2026
Thermal Imaging for Contactless Cardiorespiratory and Sudomotor Response Monitoring
Constantino Álvarez Casado, Mohammad Rahman, Sasan Sharifipour +4 more
2026
6G Empowering Future Robotics: A Vision for Next-Generation Autonomous Systems
Mona Ghassemian, Andrés Meseguer Valenzuela, Ana Garcia Armada +4 more
2026
Human-Like Gaze Behavior in Social Robots: A Deep Learning Approach Integrating Human and Non-Human Stimuli
Faezeh Vahedi, Morteza Memari, Ramtin Tabatabaei +1 more
2026
ExtremControl: Low-Latency Humanoid Teleoperation with Direct Extremity Control
Ziyan Xiong, Lixing Fang, Junyun Huang +3 more
2026
SQ-CBF: Signed Distance Functions for Numerically Stable Superquadric-Based Safety Filtering
Haocheng Zhao, Lukas Brunke, Oliver Lagerquist +2 more
2026
Developing Neural Network-Based Gaze Control Systems for Social Robots
Ramtin Tabatabaei, Alireza Taheri
2026
Design, Development, and Use of Maya Robot as an Assistant for the Therapy/Education of Children with Cancer: a Pilot Study
Alireza Taheri, Minoo Alemi, Elham Ranjkar +2 more
2026
Modeling of ASD/TD Children's Behaviors in Interaction with a Virtual Social Robot During a Music Education Program Using Deep Neural Networks
Armin Tandiseh, Morteza Memari, Alireza Taheri
2026