HRI 2026

Fechas: 16–19 mar 2026
Lugar: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Sede: Edinburgh International Conference Centre (Main) & Heriot-Watt University (Workshops)
Organizador: ACM / IEEE

HRI 2026, la 21.ª conferencia ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction, se celebró del 16 al 19 de marzo de 2026 en Edimburgo con el lema 'HRI Empowering Society'. Siete artículos completos ganaron el Best Paper en cinco tracks. Quest2ROS2, un framework de código abierto para teleoperación en VR con ROS 2, ganó el Best Short Contribution. No se publicaron cifras de asistencia ni grabaciones de las charlas. Los artículos están en la ACM Digital Library.

Datos clave

Dónde y cuándo: La 21.ª conferencia ACM/IEEE HRI se celebró del 16 al 19 de marzo de 2026 en Edimburgo, con talleres en la Heriot-Watt University el 16 de marzo y el programa principal en el Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
Best Papers: Siete artículos completos ganaron el Best Paper en cinco tracks, entre ellos WAFFLE (Systems), movimiento expresivo a partir de modelos fundacionales multimodales (Technical) y una comparación de cobots físicos frente a VR (Theory).
Best Short Contribution: Quest2ROS2, un framework de código abierto en ROS 2 para teleoperación bimanual en VR de la Universidad de Lund, ganó el Best Short Contribution.
Test of Time: Dos artículos recibieron premios Test of Time: 'Common metrics for human-robot interaction' (Steinfeld et al.) y 'Legibility and predictability of robot motion' (Dragan, Lee, Srinivasa).
Keynotes: Yukie Nagai, Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Benjamin Rosman y Benjamin R. Cowan dieron cuatro keynotes, cuyos resúmenes figuran en las actas complementarias de ACM.

Ponentes principales

Yukie Nagai (International Research Center for Neurointelligence, University of Tokyo): Predictive Brain in Robots and Children: Toward Social Intelligence
Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas (Animal-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Glasgow): More Than Human-Robot Interaction
Benjamin Rosman (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa): Who Gets Represented in Robot Intelligence? Human-Robot Interaction, Societal Context, and the Future of Autonomy
Benjamin R. Cowan (University College Dublin): Collaborating with Conversational Agents: Perspective Taking, Partner Modelling and the Division of Communicative Labour

Talleres

Designing Transparent and Understandable Robots (D-TUR), Monday March 16 (Morning): https://dtur-hri.github.io/workshop2026/
Methodological Innovation in Designing Sensations and Sentiments from Robot Touch, Monday March 16 (Morning): https://sites.google.com/view/touchwellhri2026workshop/home
Unpacking Lived Experiences of Wizards of Oz, Monday March 16 (Morning): https://sites.google.com/view/wozhri/
3rd Workshop on Designerly HRI: Articulating the Value of Design Research for HRI, Monday March 16 (Morning): https://designerlyhri.org
Robots for Care: Exploring Downstream Socio-Ethical Effects and Upstream Interventions, Monday March 16 (Morning): https://healthrobotsworkshop.github.io/HRI-workshop2026/
Robots for Communities, Monday March 16 (Morning): https://sites.google.com/view/robots-for-communities/home
Errors, Mistakes and Failures in Humans and Robots (EMF-HRI), Monday March 16 (Morning): https://sites.google.com/view/emfhri26/home
InterAI: Interactive AI for Human-Centered Robotics (2nd edition), Monday March 16 (Morning): https://sites.google.com/view/interaiworkshophri2026/home
Expressive Robot Faces with Vizij: A Workshop/Tutorial Hybrid, Monday March 16 (Full Day): https://vizij.ai/events/hri-2026-tutorial
Roboticist's Guide to Working with Children: A Playful by Design Workshop, Monday March 16 (Full Day): https://sites.google.com/iu.edu/hri26-roboticist-guide-child/call-for-participation
ROOTS-HRI: Responsible Outcomes and Operational Tools for Sustainability in HRI (2nd edition), Monday March 16 (Full Day): https://sites.google.com/view/roots-hri-2026/
Workshop YOUR Study Design 2026 (6th edition), Monday March 16 (Full Day): https://sites.google.com/view/wysd-2026-at-hri
Failing Forward: Design and Deployment Lessons from Real-World HRI, Monday March 16 (Afternoon): https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/failfowardhri2026
BPM-HRI: Best Practices and Methods in HRI Research, Monday March 16 (Afternoon): https://www.uk-hri.org/events/bpm-hri-2026
LEAP-HRI: Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term HRI (6th edition), Monday March 16 (Afternoon): https://leap-hri.github.io/
Cruel Optimism, Lucid Despair, and Precarious Hope in HRI, Monday March 16 (Afternoon): https://sites.google.com/view/hriworkshop2026/home
MAgicS-HRI: Multi-Agentic Systems in HRI, Monday March 16 (Afternoon): https://sites.google.com/view/magics-hri/home
Equitable Robotics for Wellbeing (EqRoW), Monday March 16 (Afternoon): https://sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/eq-rw/
A Tutorial for Finding and Evaluating HRI Scales, Monday March 16 (Afternoon): https://hri.lab.gmu.edu/workshops/hri-2026-workshop/
Third International Workshop on Worker-Robot Relations: Futuring Worker Empowerment, Monday March 16 (Afternoon): https://sites.google.com/view/wwrworkshop3/home
HuRoCo: Empowering Human-Robot Communication Through Non-Linguistic Pathways, Monday March 16 (Afternoon): https://dml.uni-bremen.de/huroco/HRI2026/
Exploring the Safety, Trust, Psychosocial, Legal and Economic Impact of Cyber Attacks on Social Robots, Monday March 16 (Afternoon): https://securerobotics.net/

Enlaces oficiales

Sitio web: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/