✨ Please give a warm welcome to Quori as our Community Partner for HRI 2026! 🤝
🔗 Find out more about Quori: humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partner...
#HRI2026 #Robotics #Conference #HRI
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✨ Please give a warm welcome to Quori as our Community Partner for HRI 2026! 🤝
🔗 Find out more about Quori: humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partner...
#HRI2026 #Robotics #Conference #HRI
👋 Say hello to our final Bronze Partner for HRI 2026: Hello Robot! 🦾
🔗 Find out more about Hello Robot: humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partner...
#HRI2026 #Robotics #Conference #HRI
🚀 New paper in IEEE RA-L!
IROSA: Interactive Robot Skill Adaptation using Natural Language
Tell a robot "go faster" or "there's an obstacle" - it adapts. The LLM selects validated tool functions, no direct robot control: a zero-shot, local LLM.
#robotics #LLM #IROS2026 #HRI
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📢 Join us in welcoming our Bronze Partner for HRI 2026: Peerbots! 🗯
🔗 Find out more about Peerbots: humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partner...
#HRI2026 #Robotics #Conference #HRI
📝 Please welcome Science Robotics as a Bronze Partner for HRI 2026! 📚
🔗 Find out more about Science Robotics: humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partner...
#HRI2026 #Robotics #Conference #HRI
📍 Happy to announce Intrinsic as our third Bronze Partner for HRI 2026! 🔬
🔗 Find out more about Instrinsic: humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partner...
#HRI2026 #Robotics #Conference #HRI
✨ Let’s welcome our first Bronze Partner for HRI 2026: Familiar Machines & Magic! 🪄
🔗 Find out more about Familiar Machines & Magic: humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partner...
#HRI2026 #Robotics #Conference #HRI
🎉 Join us in welcoming Honda Research Institute Japan as our second Silver Partner for HRI 2026! 🇯🇵
🔗 Find out more about Honda Research Institute: humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partner...
#HRI2026 #Robotics #Conference #HRI
🎉 We are delighted to announce our final Platinum Partner for HRI 2026: Amazon Personal Robotics Group! 🎁
🔗 Find out more about Amazon Personal Robotics Group at HRI2026:
humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partner...
#HRI2026 #Robotics #Conference #HRI
🚀 Proud to announce Semio as a Platinum Partner for #HRI2026
@semio_ai Inc. builds software to create and deploy robot applications. They will demo pre-launch tools at #HRI.
Semio Community is a nonprofit supporting reproducible research.
More info: humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partner...
A moment from Therapist vs. Robot at InScience festival: the audience applauding Olivia’s answer. It was striking to see how quickly people connected with the interaction. A reminder that language, face, and timing matter in #HRI. @mpi-nl.bsky.social @furhatrobotics.bsky.social
#robotics #llm #ai
Call for Papers: LM Playschool (LMP 2026) – Co-located with EMNLP 2026!
Can #LLMs learn, adapt, and improve through situated, game-based interaction?
See lm-playschool.github.io
#GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML
EWI proposes exit solution for shareholders:
Opportunity to receive cash exit close to NAV and retain access to SpaceX
#EWI $EWI #HRI $HRI #IEM $IEM
sharesify.com/ewi-proposes...
#quote "there is a need for robots to be sensitive to the cultural expectations of the humans in the contexts they are deployed in." in 'Social Robots and Cultural Sustainability' (amazon.es/Social-Robot...)
#robots #SocialRobots #Humanoids #culture #HRI #HumanRobotInteraction
If a choice must be made: should priority go to aesthetics—or to capability?
Balance, articulation, stability, expressiveness, and safety compete directly with visual elegance and stylization.
Is form more important than function in companionship?
#AICompanion #HRI #AIdolls
UK companies in the news:
#ALL #BASC #CAM #CNE #EAAS #ENQ #HRI #INPP #JD. #JMAT #KLSO #MONY #NANO #PCIP #PLSR #SNWS #SNX #SSON #VCP #WRKS
Head to Sharesify.com for news, views and analysis.
The true test of companion behavior is not the first hour — but the tenth week.
Does interaction remain emotionally legible over time?
Does behavior stabilize instead of escalating?
See an example of Architecture & Behavioral Design here: tinyurl.com/eve-arch
#AI #HRI #AICompanion
Should attractiveness be regulated? Some argue that hyper-idealized forms reinforce harmful stereotypes. Others argue that enforcing “average” or “unattractive” models is performative, inefficient, and economically irrational.
Neither path is simple. What do YOU think?
#AICompanion #AIdoll #HRI
How much control should users have? Open systems allow tuning, retraining, modification, and deeper personalization—but also introduce security risks, data leaks, behavioral instability, and legal ambiguity.
Is a personal companion closer to a computer… or a medical device?
#AI #AICompanion #HRI
🎀 Important question.
Fluffy pink kitty pajamas.
Plush tail.
Questionable decision-making.
Massage session... or... unhinged nightclub dance routine?
Choose wisely. 🔥
In "Silicon Heart", healing and chaos sometimes wear the exact same outfit.
Demo coming March 1 💙
#AICompanion #VN #HRI
Check out “Explainable OOHRI: Communicating Robot Capabilities and Limitations as AR Affordances” at #HRI2026 for more details!
🔗 Project page: xoohri.github.io
📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2601.14587
Led by Lauren Wang, in collaboration with Mo Kari at Princeton HCI.
#HCI #AR #Robotics #HRI
Design solutions that enable robots to estimate and respond to unknown object properties in real-time during dynamic handovers. Teams will work with food containers and drinking glasses of varying shapes, sizes, and unknown fill levels.
#HRI #Handover #embodiedAI #robotics #ai
Natural interaction is not defined by accuracy alone.
– Are gaze shifts timely but imperfect?
– Do gestures vary without repeating patterns?
– Are expression transitions smooth rather than abrupt?
See an example of Behavioral Design here: tinyurl.com/eve-arch
#AI #HRI #AICompanion
2 Litre plastic bottle of milk with the words "Robot Milk" written to its side with black marker. The bottle is on a wooden table and there is a cafetière and coffee mug in the background.
Been on Bluesky a while, never posted—so here goes. 👋
I’m a researcher, and research gets… weird.
Exhibit A: Robot Milk. 🥛🤖
Science takes you to unexpected places. What’s the strangest thing you’ve done for a project?
#research #robots #HCI #HRI #WeirdResearch
Intimacy should never be unlocked. It must emerge gradually, through sustained interaction and explicit progression. Even then, expressive behavior remains constrained: slower pacing, softer tone, extended gaze — not exaggerated gestures.
See an example here: tinyurl.com/eve-arch
#AI #HRI
A small, white humanoid robot standing on a desk, next to a small blue robotic arm.
Here's a photo of a QT social humanoid robot, which Elmira is currently using in her research with children.
Find out more by listening to Episode 143 of Robot Talk - available on all major podcast providers: linktr.ee/robottalkpod #Robots #Robotics #AI #Education #HRI
New book for designers & gerontologists! "Designing Robots to Improve Quality of Life for Older Adults" provides actionable guidance on how to design tech to support autonomy as people age.
#HRI #Aging #Design #Robotics
Save 20% with code 25AFLY4 here: www.routledge.com/Designing-Ro...
A woman wearing dark blue overalls, working alongside a blue and grey robotic arm in a manufacturing setting.
Here's a photo of a Universal Robots Cobot in action.
Find out more by listening to Episode 142 of Robot Talk - available on all major podcast providers: linktr.ee/robottalkpod #Manufacturing #HRI #AI
“Casual. Comfortable. Normal.”
Her interpretation:
❌ Casual
❌ Comfortable
❌ Normal
✔ Maximum confidence
✔ Zero shame
✔ Clerk emotionally compromised
Teaching someone how to be human is harder than it sounds.
Demo coming Q1 2026 💙
#AICompanion #VN #HRI