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Robot end users increasingly require accessible means of specifying tasks for robots to perform. Two common end-user programming paradigms include drag-and-drop interfaces and natural language programming. Although natural language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-18 David Porfirio , Vincent Hsiao , Morgan Fine-Morris , Leslie Smith , Laura M. Hiatt

Autonomous robot systems for applications from search and rescue to assistive guidance should be able to engage in natural language dialog with people. To study such cooperative communication, we introduce Robot Simultaneous Localization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Shurjo Banerjee , Jesse Thomason , Jason J. Corso

The emergence of large language models (LLM) and, consequently, vision language models (VLM) has ignited new imaginations among robotics researchers. At this point, the range of applications to which LLM and VLM can be applied in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Jesse Atuhurra

Natural language interfaces can simplify interaction with multi-robot systems, especially when non-expert users need to issue high-level commands. Acoustic manipulation using ultrasonic phased arrays also enables contactless object handling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yingying Wang , Narsimlu Kemsaram , Sriram Subramanian

Effective physical human-robot interaction requires systems that are not only adaptable to user preferences but also transparent about their actions. This paper introduces BRIDGE, a system for bidirectional human-robot communication in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Junxiang Wang , Cindy Wang , Rana Soltani Zarrin , Zackory Erickson

Traditional Human-Swarm Interaction (HSI) methods often lack intuitive real-time adaptive interfaces, making decision making slower and increasing cognitive load while limiting command flexibility. To solve this, we present SwarmChat, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ettilla Mohiuddin Eumi , Hussein Abbass , Nadine Marcus

Robots are increasingly being used in dynamic environments like workplaces, hospitals, and homes. As a result, interactions with robots must be simple and intuitive, with robots perception adapting efficiently to human-induced changes. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Simone Colombani , Luca Brini , Dimitri Ognibene , Giuseppe Boccignone

The goal of this study is to identify factors that support and enhance older adults' creative experiences in human-robot co-creativity. Because the research into the use of robots for creativity support with older adults remains…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Marianne Bossema , Somaya Ben Allouch , Aske Plaat , Rob Saunders

Autonomous aerial monitoring is an important task aimed at gathering information from areas that may not be easily accessible by humans. At the same time, this task often requires recognizing anomalies from a significant distance or not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Tzoulio Chamiti , Nikolaos Passalis , Anastasios Tefas

This paper presents an innovative large language model (LLM)-based robotic system for enhancing multi-modal human-robot interaction (HRI). Traditional HRI systems relied on complex designs for intent estimation, reasoning, and behavior…

This paper investigates the possibility of intuitive human-robot interaction through the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) in mobile robotics. This work aims to explore the feasibility of…

Natural-language-facilitated human-robot cooperation (NLC), in which natural language (NL) is used to share knowledge between a human and a robot for conducting intuitive human-robot cooperation (HRC), is continuously developing in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Rui Liu , Xiaoli Zhang

To achieve natural and intuitive interaction with people, HRI frameworks combine a wide array of methods for human perception, intention communication, human-aware navigation and collaborative action. In practice, when encountering…

Human robot interaction is an exciting task, which aimed to guide robots following instructions from human. Since huge gap lies between human natural language and machine codes, end to end human robot interaction models is fair challenging.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Zichao Dong , Weikun Zhang , Xufeng Huang , Hang Ji , Xin Zhan , Junbo Chen

Full integration of robots into real-life applications necessitates their ability to interpret and execute natural language directives from untrained users. Given the inherent variability in human language, equivalent directives may be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Eran Beeri Bamani , Eden Nissinman , Rotem Atari , Nevo Heimann Saadon , Avishai Sintov

We demonstrate experimental results with LLMs that address robotics task planning problems. Recently, LLMs have been applied in robotics task planning, particularly using a code generation approach that converts complex high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yusuke Mikami , Andrew Melnik , Jun Miura , Ville Hautamäki

Bridging the gap between natural language commands and autonomous execution in unstructured environments remains an open challenge for robotics. This requires robots to perceive and reason over the current task scene through multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jin Wang , Kim Tien Ly , Jacques Cloete , Nikos Tsagarakis , Ioannis Havoutis

While there has been a lot of research recently on robots in household environments, at the present time, most robots in existence can be found on shop floors, and most interactions between humans and robots happen there. ``Collaborative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Chalamalasetti Kranti , Sherzod Hakimov , David Schlangen

Interactive robot learning is a challenging problem as the robot is present with human users who expect the robot to learn novel skills to solve novel tasks perpetually with sample efficiency. In this work we present a framework for robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Weiwei Gu , Suresh Kondepudi , Anmol Gupta , Lixiao Huang , Nakul Gopalan

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in robotics, especially for high-level action planning. Meanwhile, many robotics applications involve human supervisors or collaborators. Hence, it is crucial for LLMs to generate socially…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Lennart Wachowiak , Andrew Coles , Oya Celiktutan , Gerard Canal