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Clear ✕Evaluating the User Experience and Therapeutic Efficacy of Humanoid Socially Assistive Robots in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) Care.
Khan A, Kabir H
Studies in health technology and informatics · 2026
KoRob: A Berlin-Brandenburg Research Network for Social Robotics and Health Informatics in Transition Societies.
Svenson F, Pfennig A, Poncette AS +5 more
Studies in health technology and informatics · 2026
Educational and Research Uses for Smart Home and Mobile Health Technologies to Ensure Their Safety and Usability.
Kushniruk AW, Borycki EM
Studies in health technology and informatics · 2026
Empathetic and Emotive Design Heuristics for Social Robots.
Kushniruk AW, Rohani S, Borycki EM
Studies in health technology and informatics · 2026
Understanding LLM Intervention Explanations in Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction
Micol Spitale, Massimiliano Nigro, Emily Cross
2026
Motion prediction for leader manipulator of teleoperation system with large time delay based on inverse optimal control.
Shen S, Li C, Zhang H +2 more
ISA transactions · 2026
When Stopping Fails: Rethinking Minimal Risk Conditions through Human-Interactive Autonomous Driving for Safe Transportation Systems
Yash Tandon, Giovanni Tapia Lopez, Marcus Blennemann +2 more
2026
Generative Learning as a Tool to Improve Perception of Emotional Body Motion Expressions
Huakun Liu, Miao Cheng, Xin Wei +6 more
2026
Vision-Language Models for Deployable Social Robot Navigation: Bridging Semantic Reasoning and Low-Level Control
Runji Cai, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Ling Xiao
2026
Embodiment Meets Environment: Toward Context-Aware, Safe Physical Caregiving Robots
Zhanxin Wu, Ruofei Tong, Jiaying Fang +1 more
2026
WARP-RM: A Warp-Augmented Relative Progress Reward Model for Data Curation
Justin Yu, Andrew Goldberg, Kavish Kondap +7 more
2026
When May I Help You? On The Effect of Proactivity on Group Human-Robot Collaboration
Thomas Vitry, Vanessa Maeder, Kieran Edgeworth +6 more
2026
CWI: Composite Humanoid Whole-Body Imitation System for Loco-manipulation
Wenqi Ge, Junde Guo, Zhen Fu +3 more
2026
Characterizing Driver Interactions with Autonomous Vehicles via Response Maps
Dave Broaddus, Rachel DiPirro, Chishang +4 more
2026
Scalable Behavior Cloning with Open Data, Training, and Evaluation
Arthur Allshire, Himanshu Gaurav Singh, Ritvik Singh +15 more
2026
VibeAct: Vibration to Actions for Contact-Rich Reactive Robot Dexterity
Yuemin Mao, Uksang Yoo, Jean Oh +2 more
2026
HumanoidUMI: Bridging Robot-Free Demonstrations and Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation
Hongwu Wang, Chenhao Yu, Youhao Hu +3 more
2026
Bridging Handheld and Teleoperated Supervision for Contact-Rich Manipulation via State-Gated Experts
Vidullan Surendran, Neehar Peri, David Watkins
2026
Multimodal emotion recognition using hybrid deep feature fusion under speaker-independent evaluation.
Ibrahim E, Ezzat Ghoraba M, Ezzat Ghoraba A
Scientific reports · 2026
Charting the Growth of Social-Physical HRI (spHRI): A Systematic Review Pipeline Augmented by Small Language Models
Mayumi Mohan, Ju-Hung Chen, Alexis E. Block
2026
NavIsaacLab: Generating Realistic Crowd via Parallel Robot Learning for Benchmarking Human-aware Navigation
Bingyi Xia, Han Bao, Jingyu Zhu +6 more
2026
1000 Rallies: An Event-Camera Dataset and Real-Time Learned Ball-State Estimation for Robotic Table Tennis
Raphaela Kreiser, Asude Aydin, Yin Bi +3 more
2026
One Body, Two Minds: Variable Autonomy Approach for a Co-embodied Robotic Hand
Piotr Koczy, Yuchong Zhang, Danica Kragic +1 more
2026
GROVE: Grounded Pedestrian Simulation via Natural Language for Interactive Social Robot Navigation
Duc Tai Nguyen, Volodymyr Shcherbyna, Anh Do Duc +3 more
2026