HRI 2026

Datas: 16 – 19 de mar. de 2026
Local: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Local do evento: Edinburgh International Conference Centre (Main) & Heriot-Watt University (Workshops)
Organizador: ACM / IEEE

A HRI 2026, 21ª conferência ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction, ocorreu de 16 a 19 de março de 2026 em Edimburgo, com o tema 'HRI Empowering Society'. Sete artigos completos receberam Best Paper em cinco trilhas. O Quest2ROS2, um framework open source de teleoperação em VR para ROS 2, venceu o Best Short Contribution. Não foram publicados números de público nem gravações das palestras. Os artigos estão na ACM Digital Library.

Fatos principais

Onde e quando: A 21ª conferência ACM/IEEE HRI ocorreu de 16 a 19 de março de 2026 em Edimburgo, com workshops na Heriot-Watt University em 16 de março e o programa principal no Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
Best papers: Sete artigos completos receberam Best Paper em cinco trilhas, incluindo WAFFLE (Systems), movimento expressivo a partir de modelos de fundação multimodais (Technical) e uma comparação entre cobot físico e em VR (Theory).
Best short contribution: O Quest2ROS2, um framework open source para ROS 2 de teleoperação bimanual em VR, da Lund University, venceu o Best Short Contribution.
Test of Time: Dois artigos receberam prêmios Test of Time: 'Common metrics for human-robot interaction' (Steinfeld et al.) e 'Legibility and predictability of robot motion' (Dragan, Lee, Srinivasa).
Keynotes: Quatro keynotes foram apresentadas por Yukie Nagai, Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, Benjamin Rosman e Benjamin R. Cowan, com resumos nos anais complementares da ACM.

Palestrantes principais

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

Workshops

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/

Links oficiais

Site: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/