Journal of Mechatronics and Robotics, Published online: 8 September 2026; doi:10.3844/jmrsp.2026.9.15 Emotion and motion triggered by emotion plays a vital role in human robot interactive communication and emotion triggered by Motion or action is vice-versa. Cognition of motion and emotion defines the...
arXiv:2510.01192v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Emulating empathy in human-robot interaction is a key component for achieving satisfying social, trustworthy, and ethical robot interaction with older people. Following comments from older adult study participants, the article uses humanities methods to identify a gap in defining empathetic robot care activities. It provides a design focus…
In this work, we focus on the scenario of a robot-assisted emergency evacuation. We consider two capabilities relevant to such a setting. The first is opening doors ahead of the people being evacuated, so that their path toward an exit stays clear. The second is retrieving rescue equipment and delivering it to the emergency responders carrying out the evacuation. From a systems perspective, this …
A standard wireless controller may seem far removed from the factory floor. ENCY Software’s work on ENCY Hyper shows why tactile, analog input can still matter when programming industrial robots and cobots.
Integrating social robots into daily life has elevated the demands for robot anthropomorphism to enhance Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Through the intelligent design process, this study adapted the robot's social presence model to examine the mediating effect of robot social presence on the relationships between robot anthropomorphism and users' perceived affinity. The study adopted a 2 (appeara…
This robot from Shanghai moves, smiles, and holds eye contact in a way that made thousands of viewers deeply uncomfortable, and that was entirely the point.
Humans can perform seamless object handovers with little to no effort. These handovers are characterized by an early movement onset that anticipates the handover location and a smooth velocity profile with minimal trajectory corrections. Replicating these characteristics in an object handover task between humans and robots presents a significant modeling challenge. In this paper we implement a Ga…
Scientists who study human-robot interaction often focus on understanding human intentions from a robot’s perspective, so the robot learns to cooperate with people more effectively. But human-robot interaction is a […] The post How to help humans understand robots appeared first on MIT AeroAstro .
The Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2021) will take place next week. We’re excited to share all the work from SAIL that will be presented, and you’ll find links to papers, videos and blogs below. Feel free to reach out to the contact authors directly to learn more about the work that’s happening at Stanford! List of Accepted Papers LILA: Language-Informed Latent Actions Authors : Siddharth Kar…
Yesterday, Professor Noshir Contractor and Leslie DeChurch presented a talk on The Impact of Performance Dynamics of Human-Robot Teams at the AI@NU Community. Their presentation is the last presentation of the Spring Quarter AI@NU Presentation Session. … Read the rest
The National Science Foundation grants the Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award to early-career faculty members who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Nine faculty members in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University have received NSF CA…
Computer science graduate student Tathagata Chakraborti stands with Newman, an industrial robot in Professor Subbarao Kambhampati's Yochan lab. Chakraborti's research is focused on human-robot collaborative planning. Photographer: Pete Zrioka/ASU As artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic systems become more prevalent, it’s increasingly important that they work well with others — especially huma…
