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Robotics Research Publications
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HRI papers(32,268)
Clear ✕Synthetic Emotions vs. Gamification: Exploring Engagement Strategies for Small Social Robots in Different Age Groups
Morten Roed Frederiksen, Kasper Støy
2026
Inducing Calmness With Pocket-Sized Robotics: Reducing Movement and Heart Rate in Children through Hand-Held Tactile Interactions
Morten Roed Frederiksen, Kasper Støy, Maja Matarić
2026
Towards Shared Embodied Intelligence in Humanoid Robots through Optimization Development and Testing of the Human Aware ergoCub Robot
Carlotta Sartore, Mohamed Elobaid, Lorenzo Rapetti +13 more
2026
A Dataset of Robot-Patient and Doctor-Patient Medical Dialogues for Spoken Language Processing Tasks
Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Grace Jang
2026
Look Further: Socially-Compliant Navigation System in Residential Buildings
Akira Shiba, Marina Obata, Nathan Kau +4 more
2026
Compliant Non-Prehensile Pushing Manipulation
Francesco Cufino, Mario Selvaggio, Fabio Amadio +1 more
2026
Safety-Critical Whole-Body Control for Humanoid Robots via Input-to-State Safe Control Barrier Functions
Kwanwoo Lee, Sanghyuk Park, Gyeongjae Park +2 more
2026
Highway Readiness Assessment for SAE Levels of Automation and V2X Notification
Lorenzo Italiano, Federico Marino, Mattia Brambilla +3 more
2026
Passivity-based Semi-autonomous Rotational Motion Navigation for Rigid-body Networks: Stability and Human Passivity Analysis
Reiji Terunuma, Yuta Nakamura, Takeshi Hatanaka
2026
PoseRefer: Pathway-Local Parameters for Semantically Grounded Reference Resolution
Anna Deichler
2026
PACT: Proactive Asking for Continual Task Assistance in Human-Robot Collaboration
Chengbo He, Sheng Li, Chenyang Ma +6 more
2026
6G Communication Networks Enabling Embodied Agents: Architecture and Prototype
Lipeng Dai, Luping Xiang, Kun Yang
2026
Robots That Know What to Ask: Recovering Misaligned Rewards through Targeted Explanations
Helena Merker, Nick Walker, Andreea Bobu
2026
Quantifying Full-Body Immersion
Alihan Bakir, Ekrem Yüksel, Fabio Zuliani +3 more
2026
Remote Teleoperation of Endovascular Intervention Robots: A Systematic Review
Xingyu Chen, Yinchao Yang, Nikola Fischer +5 more
2026
Astro, I'm Home! Investigating Factors that Influence the Acceptance of Home Robots Using Supervised Machine Learning
Katrin Fischer, Essence Wilson, Steffie Kim +1 more
2026
HITL-D: Human In The Loop Diffusion Assisted Shared Control
Riley Zilka, Sergey Khlynovskiy, Allie Wang +1 more
2026
Perception of Social Robots as Communication Partners in Healthcare for Older Adults
Hana Yamamoto, Carlotta Julia Mayer, Charlotte Raithel +5 more
2026
Embodied or virtually represented: Navigating the embodiment debate in human-robot interaction.
Esterwood C, Ye X, Guan R +1 more
Science robotics · 2026
Spacetime Optimal-Transport Attention for Visuo-Haptic Imitation Learning of Contact-Rich Manipulation
Yue Feng, Weicheng Huang, I-Ming Chen
2026
CEER: Compliant End-Effector and Root Control as a Unified Interface for Hierarchical Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Xinyuan Luo, Xingrui Chen, Xunjian Yin +6 more
2026
Robotics-Inspired Guardrails for Foundation Models in Socially Sensitive Domains
Rebecca Ramnauth, Drazen Brscic, Brian Scassellati
2026
CANINE: Coaching Visually Impaired Users for Interactive Navigation with a Robot Guide Dog
Cunjun Yu, Zishuo Wang, Anxing Xiao +2 more
2026
Beyond Waypoints: Dual-Heatmap Grounding for Cross-Embodiment Semantic Navigation
Kaijie Yun, Yue Chen
2026