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Clear ✕Breaking the 15% Barrier: A Real-World Data-Driven System for Proactive Social Robot Triggered by User Nonverbal Cues
Yuga Yano, Yuki Okafuji, Ryo Miyoshi +2 more
2026
ERR@HRI 3.0 Challenge: Multimodal Detection of Errors and Anticipation in Human-Robot Interactions
Maria Teresa Parreira, Micol Spitale, Maia Stiber +5 more
2026
A Glimpse into Long-term Physical Coexistence with Intelligent Robots
Weiqi Jin, Peijun Tang, Kuncheng Luo +5 more
2026
Whole-Body Semantic-to-Actuation Grounding of Elephant-Inspired Soft-Trunk Motion via Lightweight Flow Matching
Tingcong Liu, Tongshun Chen, Siyi Ma +6 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
Balancing pedestrian cognitive load and vehicle conspicuity with car body lighting.
Yi X, Peng Y, Zhao R +2 more
Traffic injury prevention · 2026
Robot-assisted rehabilitation: Collaborating a smart avatar with an AAN controller.
Goyal T, Hussain F, Jamwal PK +1 more
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine · 2026
The role of an educational robot in advance decision learning among community-dwelling older adults.
Huang CM, Yang JY, Huang SF +4 more
BMC palliative care · 2026
Robotic Contextual Awareness for Human-Robot Collaboration and Environmental Understanding
Federico Rollo
2026
Effects of Robotic Touch on Older Users During Walking Guidance by a Humanoid Robot
Leonie Leven, Marko Ackermann, Christian Werner +4 more
2026
Validating Virtual Reality for Studying Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction in Socially Aware Robot Navigation
Hariharan Arunachalam, Phani Teja Singamaneni, Rachid Alami
2026
Impact of a Social Robot on Hospitalized Children, Caregivers, and Health Care Staff: Exploratory Observational Study.
Iwai A, Matsumaru N, Ohshima M +10 more
JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2026
A Biomimetic Myoelectric Tentacle Prosthesis with Sensorless Object Detection and Vibrotactile Feedback
Gabrielle Marion, Olivier Lecompte, Amandine Gesta +2 more
2026
A New Human-Likeness and Comfort Index for Robot Movements Along Prescribed Paths
Rosanna Coccaro, Enrico Ferrentino, Antonio Parziale +2 more
2026
Factors Influencing Conversational Engagement in Robot-Delivered Individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (iCST) for Dementia in Home Settings
Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nicole Salomons
2026
Social robots' verbal time updates facilitate children's persistence in challenging tasks: A comparison with humans.
Ishikawa M, Matsumura S, Mahzoon H +2 more
Child development · 2026
Smooth Operator: A Real-Time Sampling-Based Algorithm for Kinematic Hand Retargeting
Robert Jomar Malate, Erik Bauer, Norica Bacuieti +4 more
2026
Agent-Exploitation Affordances: From Basic to Complex Representation Patterns
Bastien Dussard, Aurélie Clodic, Guillaume Sarthou
2026
Immersive Social Interaction with VR and LLM-Assisted Humanoids
Niraj Pudasaini, Geeta Chandra Raju Bethala, Pranav Doma +2 more
2026
Behavior Foundations for Quadruped Robots: ABot-C0 Technical Report
Xufeng Zhao, Fuzhi Yang, Jianhui Chen +15 more
2026
HumAIN: Human-Aware Implicit Social Robot Navigation
Daeun Song, Nhat Le, Jeffrey Chen +7 more
2026
Multimodal Voice Activity Projection for Turn-Taking in Social Robots with Voice-Activity-Related Pretrained Encoders
Antonio Cano, Guillermo Pérez, Luis Merino +1 more
2026
Manual, Joystick, or Haptic Control? An In Vitro Comparison of Navigation Strategies for Robotic Interventional Neuroradiology Procedures
Benjamin Jackson, Nikola Fischer, Harry Robershaw +16 more
2026
Ego-Human Motion Prediction with 3D-Aware LLM
Yujin Bae, Jaewoo Jeong, Hyeonseong Kim +1 more
2026