Social RoboticsHRI 2026 opens in Edinburgh, its first visit to Scotland
The ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction conference ran from 16 to 19 March with a focus on robots that serve society fairly.
The 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction took place at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, chaired by Heriot-Watt University's Lynne Baillie. Organisers framed the event around fitting robots into homes, hospitals and workplaces without widening inequality, and around affordable, intuitive design. Exhibits included LuxAI's QTrobot for autistic children and Pollen Robotics' open-source Reachy Mini, with sessions on socially assistive robots in therapy and special education, a Meta-backed session on bringing humanoids into homes, and a debate on the ethics of Wizard of Oz studies. HRI remains the field's flagship venue for social robotics research.
Source: Heriot-Watt University
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