About the Workshop

Safe human-robot interaction (HRI) has long been a hot topic in social robotics, which not only covers physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) but also non-contact HRI. The workshop gathers robotics researchers from academia and industry to exchange recent development and trend in safe HRI on different stages of interaction: sensing, modeling, and learning. Confirmed speakers are from a variety of backgrounds: communication, CS, EE, ME, Materials Sciences, etc.

List of Speakers

• Tao Gao (Department of Communication, Department of Statistics, UCLA)

"Intuitive Signaling Through an “Imagined We”"

• Heni Ben Amor (School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University)

"Interaction Primitives: A Machine Learning Approach for Ergonomic Human-Robot Symbiosis"

• Zhi Li (Robotics Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

"Perception-Action Coupling and Nursing Robot Teleoperation Interfaces"

• Marco Pavone (Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University)

"On Safe and Efficient Human-Robot Interactions via Multimodal Intent Modeling and Reachability-Based Safety Assurance"

• Néstor Becerra Yoma (Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Chile)

"AI and Social Robotics: The Role of Spoken Language"

• David Robb (Interactive and Trustworthy Technologies Research Group, Heriot-Watt University)

"The Challenges in Human-Robot Collaboration with Remote Robot Teams in Hazardous Environments"

• Shaoping Bai (Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University)

"Reliable Motion Intention Detection and Actuation for Human-Exoskeleton Interaction"

• Guoying Gu (School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

"Design of Soft Robots and the Preliminary Applications on Wearable Prosthetic Hands"