AI applications for robotics and HRI

• Natural language and gesture-based robot control with LLMs/VLMs

• User intent recognition and behavior prediction from non-verbal cues

• Adaptation (generalization) to robot models, unstructured tasks, and users

• Object detection, segmentation, and grasping (e.g., object in hand)

Physical HRI and human-robot collaboration (HRC)

• Real-time collision detection and classification for user safety

• Contact interpretation for user-centric HRI/HRC

• User intent recognition during indirect contact (e.g., human-robot handover)

Methods for collaborative robots and manipulators

• Path planning and control for potential collision avoidance

• Physical collision detection and robot anomaly detection

• Generative AI-based task planning and control

Interactive motion generation

• Natural motion generation synchronized with audio and context

• Interactive robot gaze modeling for social interaction

• Data-driven approaches for natural motion generation