Attending the HRI 2026 International Academic Conference @Edinburgh

In March 2026, students from Milab and some of the students enrolled in the "Robot Interaction Design" course traveled to Edinburgh, UK, to attend the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2026). The students participated in various workshops at the conference and gained a deep understanding of the latest academic developments. At the same time, their works were showcased at the student competition and the Late-Breaking Work section, and they had extensive exchanges with professors, researchers, and students from around the world.

It is worth noting that the Seesoil team won the "People's Choice" award in the Student Design Challenge. This experience not only broadened the students' academic horizons but also further ignited their enthusiasm for exploring and innovating in the field of robot interaction.

Student Milab took a photo with some of the students who took the "Robot Interaction Design" course at the event.

Members of Milab took a group photo with Teacher Tanaka at the HRI2026 SDC site.

Member Liu Shaoqing of Milab is giving a demo presentation.

The Seesoil group of the robot interaction course was conducting a demo presentation at the venue.

The Seesoil team has won the "People's Choice" award of the Student Design Challenge.

Member Li Deqiang of Milab is giving a demo presentation.

HRI2026 held a dinner at the National Museum of Scotland

Yijie Guo, Ruhan Wang, Jini Tao, Zhiling Xu, Yaowen Shen, Qifei Zhou, Zhenhan Huang, Danqi Huang, and Haipeng Mi. 2026. Goobo: A Multimodal, Context-Aware Dialogue Platform for Personalized Embodied Character Interaction. In Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI Companion '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1060–1064. https://doi.org/10.1145/3776734.3794557

Shaoqing Liu, Yishan Duan, LiMeng Wang, Yuehan Zhao, Xiaohan Li, and Matt Philippe Laing. 2026. Laughing Together: A Desktop Social Robot as an Icebreaker for First-Meeting. In Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI Companion '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1209–1212. https://doi.org/10.1145/3776734.3794596

Hanyu Zhang, Xinyue Xu, Xinran She, Jie Deng, and Yuanrong Tang. 2026. Circuit Breaker: A Tangible Intervention for Mitigating Digital Violence. In Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI Companion '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1213–1216. https://doi.org/10.1145/3776734.3794598

Haopeng Peng, Ruilin Zhang, Yuxin Liang, and Liyang Fan. 2026. THIRD EXPRESSION: A Wearable Robot for Amplifying Non-verbal Social Signals in Interpersonal Communication. In Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI Companion '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1269–1272. https://doi.org/10.1145/3776734.3794612

Jinxuan Du, Rulan Li, Tianlu Zhou, and Qianrui Liu. 2026. MuffBunny: Mimetic Ear-Based Interaction Design for Social Emotion Recognition and Implicit Expression. In Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI Companion '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1281–1284. https://doi.org/10.1145/3776734.3794615

Weijie Qin, Qiyao Wang, Bingcen Gong, and Yijia Luo. 2026. Seesoil: Mitigating Negative Emotions through a Desktop Robot for Oil Splash Incidents. In Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI Companion '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1185–1188. https://doi.org/10.1145/3776734.3794590

Hanyu Zhang, Xinyue Xu, Xinran She, Jie Deng, and Yuanrong Tang. 2026. Circuit Breaker: A Tangible Intervention for Mitigating Digital Violence. In Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI Companion '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1213–1216. https://doi.org/10.1145/3776734.3794598