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Large-language models (LLMs) hold significant promise in improving human-robot interaction, offering advanced conversational skills and versatility in managing diverse, open-ended user requests in various tasks and domains. Despite the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Callie Y. Kim , Christine P. Lee , Bilge Mutlu

Vision Language Models (VLMs) play a crucial role in robotic manipulation by enabling robots to understand and interpret the visual properties of objects and their surroundings, allowing them to perform manipulation based on this multimodal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Nurhan Bulus Guran , Hanchi Ren , Jingjing Deng , Xianghua Xie

This study introduces intelligent frameworks that use Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve task scheduling for construction robots. The LLM is fed with key data about the desired task, such as agent action abilities, and the desired end…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Swayamjit Saha , Subhabrata Das , Haonan Duan , Xiao-Yang Liu

Contemporary approaches to perception, planning, estimation, and control have allowed robots to operate robustly as our remote surrogates in uncertain, unstructured environments. This progress now creates an opportunity for robots to…

We claim that LLMs can be paired with formal analysis methods to provide accessible, relevant feedback for HRI tasks. While logic specifications are useful for defining and assessing a task, these representations are not easily interpreted…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Emily Jensen , Sriram Sankaranarayanan , Bradley Hayes

Traditional control and planning for robotic manipulation heavily rely on precise physical models and predefined action sequences. While effective in structured environments, such approaches often fail in real-world scenarios due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jin Wang , Weijie Wang , Boyuan Deng , Heng Zhang , Rui Dai , Nikos Tsagarakis

In this work, we propose an LLM-based BT generation framework to leverage the strengths of both for sequential manipulation planning. To enable human-robot collaborative task planning and enhance intuitive robot programming by nonexperts,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jicong Ao , Yansong Wu , Fan Wu , Sami Haddadin

As the first robotic platforms slowly approach our everyday life, we can imagine a near future where service robots will be easily accessible by non-expert users through vocal interfaces. The capability of managing natural language would…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Martino Mensio , Emanuele Bastianelli , Ilaria Tiddi , Giuseppe Rizzo

The combination of Large Language Models (LLMs), systematic evaluation, and evolutionary algorithms has enabled breakthroughs in combinatorial optimization and scientific discovery. We propose to extend this powerful combination to the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Carlo Bosio , Mark W. Mueller

During human-robot interaction (HRI), we want the robot to understand us, and we want to intuitively understand the robot. In order to communicate with and understand the robot, we can leverage interactions, where the human and robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Dylan P. Losey , Marcia K. O'Malley

Humanoid robots are well suited for human habitats due to their morphological similarity, but developing controllers for them is a challenging task that involves multiple sub-problems, such as control, planning and perception. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-11 K. Niranjan Kumar , Irfan Essa , Sehoon Ha

Tool use is a hallmark of advanced intelligence, exemplified in both animal behavior and robotic capabilities. This paper investigates the feasibility of imbuing robots with the ability to creatively use tools in tasks that involve implicit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Mengdi Xu , Peide Huang , Wenhao Yu , Shiqi Liu , Xilun Zhang , Yaru Niu , Tingnan Zhang , Fei Xia , Jie Tan , Ding Zhao

Recent large language models (LLMs) are capable of planning robot actions. In this paper, we explore how LLMs can be used for planning actions with tasks involving situational human-robot interaction (HRI). A key problem of applying LLMs in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Naoki Wake , Atsushi Kanehira , Jun Takamatsu , Katsushi Ikeuchi

In the construction industry, where work environments are complex, unstructured and often dangerous, the implementation of Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) is emerging as a promising advancement. This underlines the critical need for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Somin Park , Carol C. Menassa , Vineet R. Kamat

This paper introduces HyperSumm-RL, a hypertext-aware summarization and interaction analysis framework designed to investigate human perceptions of social robot leadership through long-form dialogue. The system utilizes a structured Natural…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Subasish Das

This paper introduces a system designed to generate explanations for the actions performed by an autonomous robot in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Explainability in robotics, encapsulated within the concept of an eXplainable Autonomous…

Natural language instructions are often abstract and complex, requiring robots to execute multiple subtasks even for seemingly simple queries. For example, when a user asks a robot to prepare avocado toast, the task involves several…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Alexander Leszczynski , Sarah Gillet , Iolanda Leite , Fethiye Irmak Dogan

Human acceptance of social robots is greatly effected by empathy and perceived understanding. This necessitates accurate and flexible responses to various input data from the user. While systems such as this can become increasingly complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Jordan Sinclair , Christopher Reardon

This paper describes the development of a real-time Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) system for a service robot based on 3D human activity recognition and human-like decision mechanism. The Human-Robot Interactive (HRI) system, which allows…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Kang Li , Jinting Wu , Xiaoguang Zhao , Min Tan

Speech recognition is a prominent technology, which helps us to develop a Natural language interface through speech for the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). It allows the computer to take the spoken instructions, interpret it, and generate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Adwait Naik