| 2026 | Why Do Service Robots Fail? A Systematic Literature Review from a Service Design Perspective. | Sanqi Yang, Jaehyun Park, Sangseok You, Younghoon Chang |
| 2026 | When Fatigue Shapes Trust: Perceptual Shifts beyond Performance in Physical Human-Robot Collaboration. | Aakash Yadav, Prabhakar R. Pagilla, Ranjana K. Mehta |
| 2026 | Designing Robots for Families: In-Situ Prototyping for Contextual Reminders on Family Routines. | Michael F. Xu, Enhui Zhao, Yawen Zhang, Joseph E. Michaelis, Sarah Sebo, Bilge Mutlu |
| 2026 | Designing Persuasive Social Robots for Health Behavior Change: A Systematic Review of Behavior Change Strategies and Evaluation Methods. | Jiaxin Xu, Chao Zhang, Raymond H. Cuijpers, Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn |
| 2026 | Envisioning an Attention-Supportive Desktop Robot: A Participatory Design Study. | Yan Xiang, Chengliang Ping, Mengyang Wang, Mingming Fan |
| 2026 | Fictional vs. Factual Robot Tutor Dialogue Can Shape Child Social-Emotional Learning. | Lauren L. Wright, Kaitlyn Li, Hewitt Watkins, Kiljoong Kim, Sarah Sebo |
| 2026 | Elandro: An Automated Laundry Cart for Hospitality Workflows. | Nigel G. Wormser, Zuha Kaleem, Jessie Lee, Dyllan Ryder Hofflich, Henry Calderon |
| 2026 | Risk-Taking Behavior in Human-Robot Teams: Collaboration vs. Competition. | Katharina Wille, Eva Wiese, Jairo Prez-Osorio |
| 2026 | Conversational AI without the Cloud: A Lightweight, Local Dialogue Pipeline for Non-commercial Social Robots. | Lewis Watson, Emilia Sobolewska, Carl Strathearn, Mayuko Morgan, Yanchao Yu |
| 2026 | Exploring Labor Issues in Human-Robot Collaboration: Community-Based Research with Trade Unions in Manufacturing. | Yuxuan Wang, Wenlong Zhang, Hee Rin Lee |
| 2026 | DiSCo: Diffusion Sequence Copilots for Shared Autonomy. | Andy Wang, Xu Yan, Brandon McMahan, Michael Zhou, Yuyang Yuan, Johannes Y. Lee, Ali Shreif, Matthew Li, Zhenghao Peng, Bolei Zhou, Yuchen Cui, Jonathan C. Kao |
| 2026 | Bidirectional Human-Robot Communication for Physical Human-Robot Interaction. | Junxiang Wang, Cindy Wang, Rana Soltani-Zarrin, Zackory Erickson |
| 2026 | Anticipating Safety and Security Risks of Embodied AI: A Multidimensional Risk Framework for Foundation Models in HRI. | Hong Wang, Katie Winkle, Ginevra Castellano |
| 2026 | MenstaRay: A Knitted Soft Wearable Robotic Interface for Somatosensory Communication of Menstrual Experience. | Mingke Wang, Yixun Li, Bettina Nissen, Rebecca Stewart |
| 2026 | Explainable OOHRI: Communicating Robot Capabilities and Limitations as Augmented Reality Affordances. | Lauren W. Wang, Mohamed Kari, Parastoo Abtahi |
| 2026 | Social Robot Teaching as a Pathway to Children's AI Literacy. | Chenyang Wang, Julien Jordan, Alice Reymond, Pierre Dillenbourg |
| 2026 | "Following Their Realities": Caregivers' Perspectives on Social Robotic Deception in Dementia Care in a Confucian Country. | Fan Wang, Yuan Feng, Wijnand A. IJsselsteijn, Giulia Perugia |
| 2026 | Evaluating Dynamic Surface Compensation for Robots with Projected AR. | Hong Wang, Ngoc Bao Dinh, Zhao Han |
| 2026 | Robot on the Street: A Case Study on Chinese Social Media. | Zixuan Wang |
| 2026 | Errors, Mistakes, and Failures in Humans and Robots. | Christopher D. Wallbridge, Kavyaa Somasundaram, Frank Frster, Maia Stiber, Eduardo B. Sandoval, Chinmaya Mishra, Christina E. Stimson, Patrick Holthaus, Hatice Gunes |
| 2026 | Breathe with Me: Synchronizing Biosignals for User Embodiment in Robots. | Iddo Yehoshua Wald, Amber Maimon, Shiyao Zhang, Dennis Kster, Robert Porzel, Tanja Schultz, Rainer Malaka |
| 2026 | Neurosymbolic Explanation Selection in Robotics: Combining the Strengths of Planning and Foundation Models for XAI. | Lennart Wachowiak, Andrew Ian Coles, Oya eliktutan, Gerard Canal |
| 2026 | Personalization in Practice: Sociotechnical Design for Assistive Robotics in Care. | Sahitha Vuddagiri |
| 2026 | Confusion Detection from Facial Expressions in Elderly-Robot Interactions: Why Is It Difficult? | Paul Vogt, Yara Bikowski, Matias Valdenegro-Toro |
| 2026 | Crafting Companions: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Customization amongst Robot Owners. | Amelie Voges, Mary Ellen Foster, Emily S. Cross |