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In real-world human-robot systems, it is essential for a robot to comprehend human objectives and respond accordingly while performing an extended series of motor actions. Although human objective alignment has recently emerged as a…

Collaborative robots became a popular tool for increasing productivity in partly automated manufacturing plants. Intuitive robot teaching methods are required to quickly and flexibly adapt the robot programs to new tasks. Gestures have an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Petr Vanc , Jan Kristof Behrens , Karla Stepanova

Embodied robots which can interact with their environment and neighbours are increasingly being used as a test case to develop Artificial Intelligence. This creates a need for multimodal robot controllers that can operate across different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-05 William Hunt , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn , Mohammad D. Soorati

The evolution of autonomous driving has made remarkable advancements in recent years, evolving into a tangible reality. However, a human-centric large-scale adoption hinges on meeting a variety of multifaceted requirements. To ensure that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Yi Yang , Qingwen Zhang , Ci Li , Daniel Simões Marta , Nazre Batool , John Folkesson

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

Natural language is perhaps the most flexible and intuitive way for humans to communicate tasks to a robot. Prior work in imitation learning typically requires each task be specified with a task id or goal image -- something that is often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Corey Lynch , Pierre Sermanet

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

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

We investigate the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to equip neural robotic agents with human-like social and cognitive competencies, for the purpose of open-ended human-robot conversation and collaboration. We introduce a modular and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Philipp Allgeuer , Hassan Ali , Stefan Wermter

Recent advances in LLM have been instrumental in autonomous robot control and human-robot interaction by leveraging their vast general knowledge and capabilities to understand and reason across a wide range of tasks and scenarios. Previous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Jonas Bode , Bastian Pätzold , Raphael Memmesheimer , Sven Behnke

Large language models are increasingly being explored as interfaces between humans and robotic systems, yet there remains limited evidence on how such technologies can be used not only for interaction, but also as a structured means of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 S. A. Prieto , M. A. Gopee , Y. Ben Arab , B. García de Soto , J. Esteba , P. Olivera Brizzio

Software development automation is a long-term goal in software engineering. With the development of artificial intelligence (AI), more and more researchers are exploring approaches to software automation. They view AI systems as tools or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jia Li , Zhi Jin , Huangzhao Zhang , Kechi Zhang , Jiaru Qian , Tiankuo Zhao

The introduction of robots is widely considered to have significant potential of alleviating the issues of worker shortage and stagnant productivity that afflict the construction industry. However, it is challenging to use fully automated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Somin Park , Xi Wang , Carol C. Menassa , Vineet R. Kamat , Joyce Y. Chai

Human-robot interaction often occurs in the form of instructions given from a human to a robot. For a robot to successfully follow instructions, a common representation of the world and objects in it should be shared between humans and the…

Vast improvements in natural language understanding and speech recognition have paved the way for conversational interaction with computers. While conversational agents have often been used for short goal-oriented dialog, we know little…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Jessica Van Brummelen , Kevin Weng , Phoebe Lin , Catherine Yeo

We address the personalization of control systems, which is an attempt to adjust inherent safety and other essential control performance based on each user's personal preferences. A typical approach to personalization requires a substantial…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yuya Miyaoka , Masaki Inoue , Tomotaka Nii

How can a robot provide unobtrusive physical support within a group of humans? We present Attentive Support, a novel interaction concept for robots to support a group of humans. It combines scene perception, dialogue acquisition, situation…

This paper presents a framework towards prompting multi-robot teams with high-level tasks using natural language expressions. Our objective is to use the reasoning capabilities demonstrated by recent language models in understanding and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Nicolas Pfitzer , Eduardo Sebastián , Ajay Shankar , Amanda Prorok

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown significant promise in various domains, especially robotics. However, most prior LLM-based work in robotic applications either directly predicts waypoints or applies LLMs within…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yue Meng , Fei Chen , Yongchao Chen , Chuchu Fan

We present a method for formalising quantifiers in natural language in the context of human-robot interactions. The solution is based on first-order logic extended with capabilities to represent the cardinality of variables, operating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Stefan Morar , Adrian Groza , Mihai Pomarlan