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Announcements

This is a living page, that will be updated during the conference to highlight awards, room changes, and more.

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Dates: 1^st – 5^th June 2026

Location: VIECON / Messe Wien—Messeplatz 1, 1020 Vienna

Google link to the venue entrance

Conference Venue

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Floor Plan

VIECON

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Floor Plan

VIECON

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Program at a glance

For the following pages, the activities include:

Interactive Sessions: poster-only sessions,
Regular and Award Sessions: include oral presentations.

Robot Ethics TC Introduction:

Corresponding Chair:

Jim Torrresen (E-mail: jimtoer@ifi.uio.no)

Co-Chair:

Praminda Caleb-Solly, (E-mail: praminda.caleb-solly@nottingham.ac.uk)

Yueh-Hsuan Weng (E-mail: weng.yuehhsuan@gmail.com)

Student Representative:

Yu Zhou (E-mail: yu.zhou8@unsw.edu.au)

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Monday 1^st June 2026

Keynotes

No robot ethics-related keynote this day��Workshops

[Full day] Ethical, Legal and User Perspectives in Robotics & Automation WOROBET�Room: Business Suite 3-4�

No Interactive Sessions/Regular Sessions/Awards Sessions this day

1st Floor of Congress Center

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Monday 1^st June 2026

Workshop

Ethical, Legal and User Perspectives in Robotics & Automation WOROBET

Location: Business Suite 3-4

Time: Full day

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/icra2026-workshop-robot-ethics/home

Objectives : The main objective of the workshop is to raise awareness, prompt debate and share knowledge about ethical, legal and user/social perspectives for robot assistants operating in personal and public environments with humans. Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, including robots, pose challenges and opportunities for health- and home care. Amongst the relevant and essential aspects currently discussed are privacy, cybersecurity, safety, diversity, and inclusion considerations. There is increasing attention on the ethical implications and legal issues related to robots and systems. Recently, the European Commission has approved the regulations on Artificial Intelligence, e.g., the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA), and the New Machinery Directive (MD). The AIA is the first of this kind in the world and will highly impact AI-based systems, including intelligent robots and other software that will be used, developed, or imported to Europe. Therefore, the AIA will contain key requirements for a global market for robots and AI systems. Other important ongoing efforts are defining standards for intelligent systems and studying design with user participation. It is important to determine what legal frameworks need to be followed to ensure user safety in highly robotic environments. The workshop will provide an overview of the most pressing ethical and legal challenges surrounding the development and use of robots in human environments. The workshop aims to raise awareness about these topics and engage with the community to think about mitigating risks and ways to reduce the unfavorable impact on society. The workshop will illustrate the challenges related to privacy, security, safety, and diversity of users through several examples.

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Tuesday 2^nd May 2026

Keynotes

No robot ethics-related keynote this day��Workshops

No workshop this day��Interactive Sessions 09:00-10:30

Fitts' List Revisited: An Empirical Study on Function Allocation in a Two-Agent Physical Human-Robot Collaborative Position/Force Task �Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1
Real-Time Sit-To-Stand Phase Classification with a Mobile Assistive Robot from Close Proximity Utilizing 3D Visual Skeleton Recognition�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1
Limiting Kinetic Energy through Control Barrier Functions: Analysis and Experimental Validation�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1
Baseline Policy Adapting and Abstraction of Shared Autonomy for High-Level Robot Operations�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1
Learning Maximal Safe Sets Using Hypernetworks for MPC-Based Local Trajectory Planning in Unknown Environments�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1
A Passivity-Based Framework for Dynamic Arbitration between Trajectory and Force Tracking Using Human Demonstration�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1

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Tuesday 2^nd May 2026

Training Humans to Teach Robots: Large and Lasting Skill Gains�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1
Contact-Robust Trajectory Planning Via Parametric Sensitivity Analysis for Hybrid Robotic Systems�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1
Control Barrier Corridors: From Safety Functions to Safe Goal Sets�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1
SHaRe-RL: Structured, Interactive Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Industrial Assembly Tasks�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1
Proactive Grasp Assistance in a Robotic Hand Exoskeleton Improves Performance and Preference in Challenging Tasks�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1
Safe Robotics Control with Directional Projection Control Barrier Functions Via Differentiable Optimization�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1
Preventing Robotic Jailbreaking Via Multimodal Domain Adaptation�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1
Remote Awareness of Image Quality for Multiweek Shore-Launched AUV Surveys (I)�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1

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Tuesday 2^nd May 2026

Contact-Aware Safety in Soft Robots Using High-Order Control Barrier and Lyapunov Functions�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1
Anytime Probabilistically Constrained Provably Convergent Online Belief Space Planning�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1
Lyapunov-Based Control Barrier Functions for Real-Time Safe Navigation in Three-Dimension Complex Environments�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1
Filament Sliding Linear Potentiometer-Based Data Glove (FLiPo) for Precisely Annotating Human Finger Poses�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1
Safe and Stable Neural Network Dynamical Systems for Robot Motion Planning�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1
DAPPER: Discriminability-Aware Policy-To-Policy Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning for Query-Efficient Robot Skill Acquisition�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1
Augmented Tank-Based Control Guarantees Passive Individual Interaction Environment for Multiuser Haptic-Enabled Robotic Systems�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 1

Interactive Sessions 15:00-16:30

Viability-Preserving Passive Torque Control�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2

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Tuesday 2^nd May 2026

The Empirical Turn in Robot Ethics: Reconciling Theoretical Thought Experiments with Practical Reality�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2
Detection of Texting While Walking in Occluded Environment Using Variational Autoencoder for Safe Mobile Robot Navigation�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2
HHI-Assist: A Dataset and Benchmark of Human-Human Interaction in Physical Assistance Scenario�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2
A Nonlinear MPC for Physical Human-Aerial Robot Interaction in Collaborative Transportation Tasks�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2
Backdrivable Redundantly Actuated Parallel Robot for Sensorless Physical Human-Robot Interaction�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2
Safe Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation Via Combined Model and Learning-Based Control�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2
Magnet-Based Soft Robotic Skin Using a 3D-Printed Multi-Lattice Structure and CNN-Based Tactile Super-Resolution�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2
MOSAIC: Multi-Objective Optimization from Zero-Shot Language Reasoning in Preference-Based RL�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2

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Tuesday 2^nd May 2026

A Multisensory Neurofeedback-Based Immersive BCI Paradigm for Emotion Regulation�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2
ARMOR: Attack-Resilient Reinforcement Learning Control for UAVs�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2
Failing Gracefully: Mitigating Impact of Inevitable Robot Failures�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2
Visual Grounding Via Heterogeneous Representation Learning and Hierarchical Reasoning of Human-To-Vehicle Commands�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2
Stroke-Based Variable-Damping with Force Attenuation for Capturing Large-Momentum Objects under Non-Zero Contact Velocity�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2
Failure-Aware RL: Reliable Offline-To-Online Reinforcement Learning with Self-Recovery for Real-World Manipulation�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2
Stability and Transparency in Mixed Reality Bilateral Human Teleoperation�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2
One Filter to Deploy Them All: Robust Safety for Quadrupedal Navigation in Unknown Environments�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2
Gameplay with a Socially Supportive Virtual Robot Enhances Children's Global Self-Esteem, Peer Relationships, Interest and Engagement�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2

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Tuesday 2^nd May 2026

LLM-Handover: Exploiting LLMs for Task-Oriented Robot-Human Handovers�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2
Safety Evaluation of Motion Plans Using Trajectory Predictors As Forward Reachable Set Estimators�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2
An Intention-Aware Robust Safety Framework for Robot Teleoperation: Unifying Object Interaction and Obstacle Avoidance�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 2
Perception of Social Robots As Communication Partners in Healthcare for Older Adults�Room: Hall C�Session: Late Breaking Results 2

Regular Sessions 15:00-16:30

[12:10-12:20]Effect of Virtual Mass and Time Delay on the Stability of Haptic Rendering (I)�Room: Hall C�Session: Soft Robotics

Award Sessions

[16:55-17:05]Uncertainty Comes for Free: Human-In-The-Loop Policies with Diffusion Models�Room: Hall C�Session: Award Finalists 2
[17:05-17:15]SA-VLM V2: Useful, Comprehensive, and Concise Guidance for Guide-Dog Robots Assisting the Visually Impaired�Room: Hall C�Session: Award Finalists 2

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Wednesday 3^rd May 2026

Keynotes

No robot ethics-related keynote this day��Workshops

No workshop this day��Interactive Sessions 09:00-10:30

A Distributed Multi-Modal Sensing Approach for Human Activity Recognition in Real-Time Human-Robot Collaboration �Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 3
Dynamic Movement Primitives with Control Barrier Functions for Constrained Trajectory Planning�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 3
Energy-Shaping Controller for Time-Invariant Multiple Contacts�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 3
EIT-Pneumatic Hybrid Robotic Skin for Practical and Accurate Force Map Reconstruction�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 3
Learning Conservative Neural Control Barrier Functions from Demonstrations�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 3
Causality-Based Parametric Control Barrier Function for Safe Multi-Vehicle Interaction�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 3
Exploiting Vulnerabilities: Universal Adversarial Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models in Robotics�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 3

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Wednesday 3^rd May 2026

Will People Enjoy a Robot Trainer? a Case Study with Snoopie the Pacerbot �Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 3
Low Cost, Easily Manufactured, Highly Flexible Strain and Touch Sensitive Fiber for Robotics Applications �Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 3
A Natural Language Interface for Multi-Constraint Spatiotemporal Planning Via LLM-Parameterized Mixed-Integer Scheduling and A*�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 3
CRED: Counterfactual Reasoning and Environment Design for Active Preference Learning�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 3
Contact-Safe Reinforcement Learning with ProMP Reparameterization and Energy Awareness�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 3
MADR: MPC-Guided Adversarial Deepreach�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 3
Geometry-Aware Control Barrier Functions for Collision Avoidance Via Bernstein Polynomial Approximations�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 3
A Roadmap for Responsible Robotics�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 3
Safety on the Fly: Constructing Robust Safety Filters Via Policy Control Barrier Functions at Runtime�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 3

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Wednesday 3^rd May 2026

Clinicians’ Perspectives on Safety, Ethical, and Legal Considerations for Home-Based Physical Rehabilitation Robots�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 3
Distance-Based Shared Control for Vitreoretinal Surgery �Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 3
TeachingBot: Robot Teacher for Human Handwriting�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 3
Sequentially Teaching Sequential Tasks (ST)^2: Teaching Robots Long-Horizon Manipulation Skills �Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 3

Interactive Sessions 15:00-16:30

Improving Trust Estimation in Human-Robot Collaboration Using Beta Reputation at Fine-Grained Timescales�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
Look at Them Go! Using an Autonomous Assistive GoBot to Encourage Movement Practice by Two Children with Motor Disabilities�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
Systematic Design of the Time-Independent and Computable Controller Based on Zero-Division-Avoidable Smoother for a Desired Orbit in Phase Space�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
Estimating Human Muscular Fatigue in Dynamic Collaborative Robotic Tasks with Learning-Based Models�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4

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Wednesday 3^rd May 2026

Latent Activation Editing: Inference-Time Refinement of Learned Policies for Safer Multirobot Navigation�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
ORN-CBF: Learning Observation-Conditioned Residual Neural Control Barrier Functions Via Hypernetworks�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
When the Adversary Knows You Better: Adversarial Training for Learning-Based Legged Robots�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
FG-HOCBF: Safe Operation Area Extension and Obstacle Avoidance Direction Guidance for Surface Detection in Narrow Environments�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
Perching-Based Haptic Guidance for Physical Human-Robot Interaction with Aerial Robots�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
RVSPEC: Cyber-Physical Interplay Graphs for Formal Specification of Robotic Vehicle Control Software�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
AnySafe: Adapting Latent Safety Filters at Runtime Via Safety Constraint Parameterization in the Latent Space�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
GazeMoE: Perception of Gaze Target with Mixture-Of-Experts�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4

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Wednesday 3^rd May 2026

Towards Autonomous Tape Handling for Robotic Wound Redressing�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
Tactile-Proprioceptive Sensor Fusion for Contact Wrench Estimation in Whole-Body Physical Human-Robot Interaction�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
Learning Therapist Policy from Therapist-Exoskeleton-Patient Interaction�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
Amplifying Force-Feedback Cues for Enhancing Dexterous Skill Transfer in Virtual Environments�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
Correcting Autonomous Vehicle Behavior to Ensure Rule Compliance�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
Learnable Conformal Prediction for Safe and Efficient Robotics under Perception and Planning Uncertainties�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
Safe Payload Transfer with Ship-Mounted Cranes: A Robust Model Predictive Control Approach�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
Non-Contact Tactile Perception in Human-Robot Interaction: Deep Learning-Enhanced Super-Resolution Spatial Sensing�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
RoboCade: Gamifying Robot Data Collection�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4

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Wednesday 3^rd May 2026

Neural Profiling with fNIRS of Operator Performance in Teleoperated Human-Like Social Robot Interactions�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
Is Open Robotics Innovation a Threat to International Peace and Security?�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
CBF-Based Hierarchical Quadratic Programs with Guaranteed Feasibility for Safety-Critical Systems (I)�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
In-Orbit Space Structure Inspection Trajectory Generation�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
A High-DOF BCI Control Strategy Mapping Discrete Commands to Continuous Motion for a Drone (I)�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
Privacy-Preserving Robotic Perception for Object Detection in Curious Cloud Robotics�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
Human-In-The-Loop Gaussian Splatting for Robotic Teleoperation�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 4
Beyond Domain Randomization: Safety Certificates for Reinforcement Learning�Room: Hall C�Session: Late Breaking Results 4

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Thursday 4^th May 2026

Keynotes

No robot ethics-related keynote this day��Workshops

No workshop this day��Interactive Sessions 09:00-10:30

Enabling Embodied Human-Robot Co-Learning: Requirements, Method, and Test with Handover Task �Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5
What's the Deal with Robot Comedy? Pinpointing the Impact of Post-Joke Repartee in a Robotic Comedian's Performance �Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5
Estimating Trust in Human-Robot Collaboration through Behavioral Indicators and Explainability �Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5
Adaptive Gain Nonlinear Observer for External Wrench Estimation in Human-UAV Physical Interaction�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5
CareBot-H: Enhancing Patient Transfer with Biomimetic Design and Trajectory Deformation Algorithm�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5
Demonstration-Augmented Deep Reinforcement Learning with Mixed Reality Human-In-The-Loop Guidance�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5

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Thursday 4^th May 2026

A Lightweight Hip Exoskeleton with High Torque-To-Mass Ratio: Design, Gait-Synchronized Control, and Physiological Validation�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5
A Novel Human-Machine Dual-Task Gaming Framework for Visual-Attention Training�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5
Integrating Artificial Vision and Wearable Robotics: Adaptive Assistance Enabled by Manipulation Context Awareness�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5
Adaptive Physical Human-Robot Interaction Via a Passivity-Aware Model Predictive Variable Admittance Control�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5
CBF-RL: Safety Filtering Reinforcement Learning in Training with Control Barrier Functions�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5
A Compact Rotary Series Elastic Actuator with Wide Deflection Range and Linear Torque Response for pHRI Applications�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5
Formal Safety Verification and Refinement for Generative Motion Planners Via Certified Local Stabilization�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5
SafeNet: A Neural-Symbolic Network for Safe Planning in Robotic Systems Using Formal Method-Guided LLM Fine-Tuning�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5

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Thursday 4^th May 2026

GIFT: Generalizing Intent for Flexible Test-Time Rewards�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5
Designing Latent Safety Filters Using Pre-Trained Vision Models�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5
COLA: Learning Human-Humanoid Coordination for Collaborative Object Carrying�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5
Reimagination with Test-Time Observation Interventions: Distractor-Robust World Model Predictions for Visual Model Predictive Control�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5
Adap-RPF: Adaptive Trajectory Sampling for Robot Person Following in Dynamic Crowded Environments�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5
Semantic Hierarchy-Guided Adversarial Attack for Autonomous Driving�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5
DRO-EDL-MPC: Evidential Deep Learning-Based Distributionally Robust Model Predictive Control for Safe Autonomous Driving�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5
An Anatomy-Aware Shared Control Approach for Assisted Teleoperation of Lung Ultrasound Examinations�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5
Data-Driven Anomaly Detection in Robots Using Matrix Chernoff Bounds�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 5

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Thursday 4^th May 2026

Robotic Rendering of Oriental Ink Paintings with Spatial Awareness�Room: Hall C�Session: Late Breaking Results 5
Risk-Aware Control of Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots Via CVaR-MPPI with Residual Learning for Hysteresis Compensation : A Pilot Study�Room: Hall C�Session: Late Breaking Results 5
A Novel Upper Limb Rehabilitation Framework Based on Dual-Arm Robotics for Therapist-Like Traction Training�Room: Hall A2�Session: Planning

Interactive Sessions 15:00-16:30

Human-Like Robot Action Policy through Game-Based Empathetic Inference for Human-Robot Collaboration�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 6
HRI-DGDM: Dual-Graph Guided Diffusion Model for Uncertain Human Motion Modeling in HRI�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 6
Rendering Multi-Human and Multi-Object with 3D Gaussian Splatting�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 6
Extended Force and Velocity Prediction in Human-Robot Collaborative Transportation through Future Environment Representation Estimation�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 6
V-MORALS: Visual Morse Graph-Aided Estimation of Regions of Attraction in a Learned Latent Space�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 6

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Thursday 4^th May 2026

SafeFlowMPC: Predictive and Safe Trajectory Planning for Robot Manipulators with Learning-Based Policies�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 6
HITL-D: Human in the Loop Diffusion Assisted Shared Control�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 6
CoPaRo: A Compact, Backdrivable 6-DOF Hybrid Parallel Robot with Serial-Like Form Factor and Large Workspace�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 6
Task Scheduling Optimization for Multi-Human Multi-Robot Collaborative Remanufacturing�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 6
Robustly Constrained Dynamic Games Via System Level Synthesis�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 6
UTTG: A Universal Teleoperation Framework Via Online Trajectory Generation�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 6
DualGuard MPPI: Safe and Performant Optimal Control by Combining Sampling-Based MPC and Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 6
Safe Autonomous Environmental Contact for Soft Robots Using Control Barrier Functions�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 6
Enhancing Motor Synchrony in Rhythmic Dyadic Tasks through Portable Elbow Exoskeletons�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 6

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Thursday 4^th May 2026

Safe and Dynamically-Feasible Motion Planning Using Control Lyapunov and Barrier Functions�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 6
Knee-Inspired Hinge Absorbs Longitudinal Impacts to Enhance Robot-Environment Interaction Safety�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 6
STAGE: STyle-Controllable Action GEneration for Personalized Autonomous Driving�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 6
Safe Navigation under State Uncertainty: Online Adaptation for Robust Control Barrier Functions�Room: Hall C�Session: Interactive Session 6
Diffusion Policy for Robot-Assisted Dressing with Moving Human Arms�Room: Hall C�Session: Late Breaking Results 6
Cooperation or Collaboration? on a Human-Inspired Impedance Strategy in a Human-Robot Co-Manipulation Task�Room: Hall A2�Session: Human-Robot Interaction
A Kinesthetic Teaching Framework for Tasks with Contact Transitions and Time-Optimized Execution�Room: Hall A2�Session: Human-Robot Interaction
Whole-Body Safe Control of Robotic Systems with Koopman Neural Dynamics�Room: Hall A2�Session: Human-Robot Interaction
Robot Cell Modeling Via Exploratory Robot Motions�Room: Hall A2�Session: Human-Robot Interaction

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Friday 5^th May 2026

Keynotes

No keynote this day��Workshops

[Full day] Enabling Autonomy and Independence in Aging Societies through Advanced Robotics and AI: Methods, Challenges, a nd Future Perspectives�Room: Business Suite 3-4

No Interactive Sessions/Regular Sessions/Awards Sessions this day

1st Floor of Congress Center

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Monday 1^st June 2026

Workshop

Enabling Autonomy and Independence in Aging Societies through Advanced Robotics and AI: Methods, Challenges, and Future Perspectives

Location: Business Suite 3-4

Time: Full day

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/robotic-for-aging-society/homepage/

Abstract : The world is entering a stage of rapid aging, with increasing numbers of older adults living alone, severe caregiver shortages, and traditional eldercare models under significant strain. Robotics and AI are emerging as vital tools for health monitoring, rehabilitation, cognitive training, and socially assistive companionship, aiming not only to support daily needs but also to enhance overall capabilities and quality of life. However, the true challenge lies in moving beyond simple substitution to systems that actively foster autonomy, safeguard independence, and uphold dignity in later years. This Workshop will spotlight the critical role of robotics and AI in addressing the challenges of aging societies. Discussions will cover essential methodological innovations, technical and ethical challenges, and future perspectives that will shape the next generation of intelligent systems. By convening researchers, frontline caregivers, young scholars, and industry stakeholders, the Workshop seeks to advance cross-disciplinary collaboration grounded in human-centered values. Its overarching aim is to reimagine technological design and practice—not merely as tools of assistance, but as active partners that empower older adults to regain control over their bodies, cognition, and daily rhythms. In doing so, the Workshop will highlight pathways to rekindle confidence, participation, and enthusiasm for living.

We aim to discuss questions including, but not limited to:

Robotics and AI in Elderly Care: Hopes, Fears, and Ethical Dilemmas
Care Robots and Monitoring Support for Sustaining Everyday Autonomy
Physical Assistance and Rehabilitation Technologies for Independent Living
Cognitive Support Systems to Foster Decision-Making Autonomy
Interaction and Companionship to Sustain Psychosocial Autonomy