The HRI Conference

Great moments at the posters and demo session throughout Day 2 at HRI26! ✨🤖📄
…and greatest shoutout to our wonderful Local Chair Marta Romeo presenting her poster while also managing this amazing Conference!

🧩Join us in thanking our Platinum Sponsor Semio presented by Ross Mead at #HRI2026!
Special thank to Ross who is also our Partnership Chair together with Nathan Kirchner 🙌🏻

🎙️Let’s give it up for our first Keynote Speaker Benjamin Rosman from University of the Witwatersrand who is shaping the future of intelligence from Africa, bridging research, impact, and inclusion.
⚙️From Deep Learning Indaba to Lelapa AI, his work champions AI built by and for diverse communities.

Ready, Set, Go! 🤖🚀

🏰Day 2 of HRI 2026 is starting at Edinburgh International Conference Center, EICC!

🫂Our amazing General Chairs, Lynne Baillie and Bill Smart are welcoming us!

🆒Join us for a full day of Paper presentations, posters, and greetings!

🎙️Don’t miss the Keynote by Benjamin Rosman starting now in Auditorium.

Join us at the Welcome Reception of HRI 2026🤖! 🥂 welcome to the Dynamic Earth of Edinburgh! 🌎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Join the #SustainableHRI Social Media Challenge 💚🤖

Make #HRI2026 greener & win a 50 GBP One World Shop gift card 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Complete sustainability tasks (some you can do from afar!) and post about it with #SustainableHRI

Start today! Info here https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/sustainability-at-hri/

🚀 HRI 2026 starts today!

The 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human–Robot Interaction kicks off today in Edinburgh to explore this year’s theme: “HRI Empowering Society.”🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Here’s what’s happening on Day 1 – March 16:

🔹 Workshops & Tutorials (Morning Session) 📍Heriot-Watt University

🔹 HRI Pioneers 📍Heriot-Watt University

🔹 Industry Day 📍National Robotarium

🔹 Welcome Reception 📍 Our Dynamic Earth,
🕢 19:30–21:00

#HRI2026 #HumanRobotInteraction #Robotics #HRICommunity

✨ Please give a warm welcome to Quori as our Community Partner for HRI 2026! 🤝
🔗 Find out more about Quori: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partners/#quori
#HRI2026 #Robotics #Conference #HRI

👋 Say hello to our final Bronze Partner for HRI 2026: Hello Robot! 🦾
🔗 Find out more about Hello Robot: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partners/#hello-robot
#HRI2026 #Robotics #Conference #HRI

📢 Join us in welcoming our Bronze Partner for HRI 2026: Peerbots! 🗯
🔗 Find out more about Peerbots: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partners/#peerbots
#HRI2026 #Robotics #Conference #HRI

📚 The proceedings of the 2026 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2026) are now available!

We are excited to share the official publications from this year’s conference, featuring the latest research advancing the field of Human–Robot Interaction.

🔹 Main Proceedings

https://doi.org/10.1145/3757279

🔹 Companion Proceedings

https://doi.org/10.1145/3776734

A big thank you to all authors, reviewers, and organizers who made this possible!

📝 Please welcome Science Robotics as a Bronze Partner for HRI 2026! 📚

🔗 Find out more about Science Robotics: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partners/#science-robotics

#HRI2026 #Robotics #Conference #HRI

📍 Happy to announce Intrinsic as our third Bronze Partner for HRI 2026! 🔬
🔗 Find out more about Instrinsic: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partners/#intrinsic
#HRI2026 #Robotics #Conference #HRI

✨ Let’s welcome our first Bronze Partner for HRI 2026: Familiar Machines & Magic! 🪄

🔗 Find out more about Familiar Machines & Magic: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partners/#fmm

#HRI2026 #Robotics #Conference #HRI

🎉 Join us in welcoming Honda Research Institute Japan as our second Silver Partner for HRI 2026! 🇯🇵

🔗 Find out more about Honda Research Institute: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partners/#honda-ri

#HRI2026 #Robotics #Conference #HRI

🙌 Let’s welcome our Silver Partner Pollen Robotics for HRI 2026! 🤗

Pollen Robotics, now part of Hugging Face, develops Reachy Mini, an expressive open-source desktop humanoid robot designed for HRI research, creative coding, education, and embodied AI experimentation.

At HRI 2026 they will connect with the community to explore topics such as voice interaction, robot personality design, long-term engagement, and key questions around privacy and trust in HRI
🔗 https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partners/#pollen-robotics

🎉 We are delighted to announce our final Platinum Partner for HRI 2026: Amazon Personal Robotics Group! 🎁

🔗 Find out more about Amazon Personal Robotics Group at HRI2026:
https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partners/#amazon

#HRI2026 #Robotics #Conference #HRI

Name a better way to close HRI’26 than with a true celebration of Scotland! 🏴

📅 March 19, 2026
🕐 19:30–23:00
📍 Assembly Roxy

Join us for a farewell evening featuring a traditional Scottish Ceilidh with live music and a caller guiding the dances — no experience needed! 🕺

Dancing 20:00–22:00, bar open until 23:00.

🎟️ Sold out! Thank you for the incredible response.
Looking forward to ending HRI’26 with music, movement, and community 🤖🎶

🚀 We are happy to welcome ROBOTERA as a Platinum Partner for HRI 26! 🦾

Founded in 23, ROBOTERA develops fully in-house humanoid robots and dexterous hands, including the L7 humanoid, Q5 service robot, and XHAND1 dexterous hand. Their mission is to build reliable robotic systems that enhance human productivity in research and industry.

At #HRI2026 they look forward to engaging with the community on HRI, teleoperation, embodied intelligence, and real-world deployment.

🔗 https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partners/#robotera

🔊 Welcome LuxAI as a Platinum Partner for HRI 2026! 🤖

LuxAI is a leading social robotics company focused on Human–Robot Interaction and human-centered AI. Their expressive humanoid platform QTrobot is widely used by researchers worldwide to study social interaction in real-world settings.

At HRI 2026, LuxAI will showcase the latest high-performance configurations of QTrobot for multimodal interaction and on-device intelligence. The team is also hiring AI/ML talent.

🔗 https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partners/#luxai

👏 We’re happy to announce that Meta will be a Platinum Partner for HRI 2026! 🥽

Meta’s mission is to build the future of human connection and the technologies that make it possible. At HRI 2026, Meta Robotics Studio will support the global exchange of ideas around human-robot interaction and co-organize the Special Session Workshop “HRI and Consumer Robots: Building Robots that are Useful and Acceptable.”

🔗 Learn more: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partners/#meta

💥 We are excited to announce Google as our fourth Platinum Partner for HRI 2026! 🔵🔴🟡🔵🟢🔴

Google shared the following about who they are, also listed on the HRI 2026 Partners page:

Google is home to world-class research teams whose foundational breakthroughs have helped usher in a new era of AI.

🔗 Find out more about Google: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partners/#google

#HRI2026 #Robotics #Conference #HRI

💫 We’re excited to welcome our third Platinum Partner for #HRI2026: PlaiPin! 🐰

PlaiPin is a social robotics company building physical bodies for AI agents, enabling them to see, touch, and move through the world. Their modular platform lets the same AI inhabit different forms — from plush companions to crab robots and flying drones.

At HRI 2026, they’ll showcase their platform and connect with researchers working on social robotics and embodied AI.

🔗 https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partners/#plaipin

Excited to have Furhat Robotics as a Platinum Partner for HRI 2026 🤠

Furhat Robotics builds humanoid social robots for research and innovation. At HRI 2026, they will showcase their robot and tools to enable real-time integration with external systems.

🔗 https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/partners/#furhat-robotics

🌟 Discover #HRILabs Across the #UK! 🏴🇬🇧

Are you attending HRI 2026? Don’t miss this chance to explore some of the UK’s top #humanrobotinteraction labs! Meet researchers, see cutting-edge projects in action, and connect with teams shaping the future of HRI.

🔗 Check out the full list & reach out to labs that interest you: https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2026/explore-hri-labs-in-the-uk/

💡 Also, plan for the National Robotarium tour on workshop day (Mar 16)! Spaces are limited, so grab the chance for a hands-on robotics experience. 🤖