Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is the study of how people interact with robots, and how robots can be designed to interact with humans in a natural and intuitive way. HRI involves research into the development of robots that can interact with humans through speech, touch, gesture, and facial expression. It also involves the understanding of how humans interact with robots and how robots can be used to improve human performance and the quality of life.

QTrobot is an expressive social robot designed to support a variety of use-cases including education of children with autism and other special needs education. It can also be used to support human-robot interaction research and teaching. Qtrobot for Schools is an easy-to-use assistive tool for increasing children’s engagement through its automated session reporting and insights dashboard.

At Emoters, we’re developing tiny robots that seem alive. Emoters is based in Austin and is led by Dr. Bradley Knox, who researched human-robot interaction and artificial intelligence at the MIT Media Lab’s Personal Robots Group and at UT Austin. We cannot yet give details about what we’re making, but we can’t wait to share our robots when they’re ready.

Niska Retail Robotics is the first emotionally intelligent robotic retail. With the research and high-level expertise that’s been put into creating the product, Niska has the potential to advance Australia’s position to the forefront in the application of advanced human-robot interaction.

Kastanienbaum GmbH is a spin-off of the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of the German Aerospace Center (DLR-RMC). Kastanienbaum's vision is the coexistence of humans and robots. Therefore, Kastanienbaum develops innovative software solutions for safe physical human-robot interaction. With their worldwide unique concepts, solutions and algorithms for operating, programming, control and safety of robots it will finally become possible that humans and robots interact or even collaborate with each other.

The Personal Robots Group focuses on developing the principles, techniques, and technologies for personal robots. Dr. Cynthia Breazeal and her students conduct research that advances the state-of-the-art in socially intelligent robot partners that interact with humans to promote social and intellectual benefits, work alongside with humans as peers, learn from people as apprentices, and foster more engaging interaction between people. More recent work investigates the impact of long-term, personalized Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) applied to quality of life, health, creativity, communication, and educational goals. The ability of these robot systems to naturally interact, learn from, and effectively cooperate with people has been evaluated in numerous human subjects experiments, both inside the lab and in real-world environments.

Currently, drones, robots & connected IoT devices are limited by their method of control as there is no unifying platform that grants true autonomy and can control multiple robots. This means one or more operators are required per vehicle or robot. 

Accelerated Dynamics provides an AI software platform that enables autonomous, collaborative robot missions and an ecosystem environment enabling seamless data collection and analytics solutions from third party providers. Our proprietary mission management system is built upon strong IP portfolio based on machine learning and multi-agent technologies, including: autonomous robot decision making, neural network based fleet management and strategy creation, navigation, path planning, collision avoidance for the fleet and autonomy level management for human-robot interaction.

Established in 2009, ESA’s Telerobotics & Haptics Lab is developing robotic technologies for advanced human-machine interaction, extending the human sense of touch to space and planetary environments.

By comparison to other ESA labs tasked mainly with technical testing, the Lab has its focus firmly on fundamental research and development, adopting an informal ‘start- up’ culture. Collaborating with a range of partners across the fields of telerobotics, mechatronics, haptics and human-robot interaction, the Lab has quickly become recognised as a leading authority in this fast-moving domain.

Its pre-development and demonstration of critical technologies is a means of supporting future spaceflight projects in support of coordinated exploration endeavours by international space programmes as well as fostering European industrial capability.

Founded on the basis of developing advanced human-robot interaction technology, FutureRobot Co., Ltd. is a service robot manufacturer that develops custom robots to engage visitors and customers at venues, airports, and retail locations. Our core principles emphasize maximizing the happiness of customers and employees (Pursuit of Happiness), developing the best products (Technology Management), and realizing a society of harmonious living (Sharing). We continuously strive to produce the best service robots for the market.

< Vision >
SIMPLICITY & SPEEDY
Develop distributional service robots that play a role to create new services and markets.

< Our Fundamental Competences >
 Passion, Creativeness, Fidelity, Integrity 

< Management Philosophy >
Based on creative human resources and advanced technology, we will develop the best robotics products and will contribute to continuous quality of life improvement for the global population.

ROBOTECH srl was founded in 2004 by a close-knit team of service robotics and electronics aficionados. Dustcart, hydronet and easy VR are our leading products. design, research and development

PAL Robotics was founded in 2004 when a small group of engineers built the first fully autonomous humanoid biped robot in Europe. Today we design and manufacture highly integrated and reliable solutions for service industries and research institutions worldwide. Our robots are used for research, logistics, retail and social applications for companies, institutions and labs .

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