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As robots get more integrated into human environments, fostering trustworthiness in embodied robotic agents becomes paramount for an effective and safe human-robot interaction (HRI). To achieve that, HRI applications must promote human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Carlo Mazzola , Hassan Ali , Kristína Malinovská , Igor Farkaš

The integration of large language models (LLMs) into conversational robots has made human-robot conversations more dynamic. Yet, LLM-powered conversational robots remain prone to errors, e.g., misunderstanding user intent, prematurely…

As of today, robots exhibit impressive agility but also pose potential hazards to humans using/collaborating with them. Consequently, safety is considered the most paramount factor in human-robot interaction (HRI). This paper presents a…

As robots become increasingly integrated into various industries, understanding how humans respond to robotic failures is critical. This study systematically examines trust dynamics and system design by analyzing human reactions to robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Ponkoj Chandra Shill , Md. Azizul Hakim

In this paper, we propose an approach that combines Vision Language Models (VLMs) and Behavior Trees (BTs) to address failures in robotics. Current robotic systems can handle known failures with pre-existing recovery strategies, but they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Faseeh Ahmad , Jonathan Styrud , Volker Krueger

Robots, as AI with physical instantiation, inhabit our social and physical world, where their actions have both social and physical consequences, posing challenges for researchers when designing social robots. This study starts with a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Giulio Antonio Abbo , Tony Belpaeme , Micol Spitale

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a multi-modal, cooperative task requiring agents to interpret human instructions, navigate 3D environments, and communicate effectively under ambiguity. This paper presents a comprehensive review of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nivedan Yakolli , Avinash Gautam , Abhijit Das , Yuankai Qi , Virendra Singh Shekhawat

The study of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) aims to create close and friendly communication between humans and robots. In the human-center HRI, an essential aspect of implementing a successful and effective HRI is building a natural and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Xihao Wang , Hao Shen , Hui Yu , Jielong Guo , Xian Wei

Despite great advances in what robots can do, they still experience failures in human-robot collaborative tasks due to high randomness in unstructured human environments. Moreover, a human's unfamiliarity with a robot and its abilities can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Parag Khanna , Elmira Yadollahi , Mårten Björkman , Iolanda Leite , Christian Smith

Trust in robots is widely believed to be imperative for the adoption of robots into people's daily lives. It is, therefore, understandable that the literature of the last few decades focuses on measuring how much people trust robots -- and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Patrick Holthaus , Alessandra Rossi

This paper examines some common problems in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) causing failures and troubles in Chat. A given use case's design decisions start with the suitable robot, the suitable chatting model, identifying common problems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Manal Helal , Patrick Holthaus , Gabriella Lakatos , Farshid Amirabdollahian

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

Successful adoption of industrial robots will strongly depend on their ability to safely and efficiently operate in human environments, engage in natural communication, understand their users, and express intentions intuitively while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Tim Schreiter , Andrey Rudenko , Jens V. Rüppel , Martin Magnusson , Achim J. Lilienthal

Physical human-robot interactions (pHRI) are less efficient and communicative than human-human interactions, and a key reason is a lack of informative sense of touch in robotic systems. Interpreting human touch gestures is a nuanced,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Bibit Bianchini , Prateek Verma , Kenneth Salisbury

Understanding how humans evaluate robot behavior during human-robot interactions is crucial for developing socially aware robots that behave according to human expectations. While the traditional approach to capturing these evaluations is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Qiping Zhang , Nathan Tsoi , Mofeed Nagib , Hao-Tien Lewis Chiang , Marynel Vázquez

Personality has been identified as a vital factor in understanding the quality of human robot interactions. Despite this the research in this area remains fragmented and lacks a coherent framework. This makes it difficult to understand what…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Lionel P. Robert , Rasha Alahmad , Connor Esterwood , Sangmi Kim , Sangseok You , Qiaoning Zhang

Human models play a crucial role in human-robot interaction (HRI), enabling robots to consider the impact of their actions on people and plan their behavior accordingly. However, crafting good human models is challenging; capturing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Bowen Zhang , Harold Soh

Pursuing natural and marker-less human-robot interaction (HRI) has been a long-standing robotics research focus, driven by the vision of seamless collaboration without physical markers. Marker-less approaches promise an improved user…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Enrico Martini , Harshil Parekh , Shaoting Peng , Nicola Bombieri , Nadia Figueroa

In the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), a fundamental challenge is to facilitate human understanding of robots. The emerging domain of eXplainable HRI (XHRI) investigates methods to generate explanations and evaluate their impact on…

Establishing standardized metrics for Social Robot Navigation (SRN) algorithms for assessing the quality and social compliance of robot behavior around humans is essential for SRN research. Currently, commonly used evaluation metrics lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Raphael Wenzel , Malte Probst