Best paper
Conveying Emotions to Robots through Touch and Sound – Qiaoqiao Ren , Remko Proesmans , Frederick Bossuyt, Jan Vanfleteren , Francis Wyffels, and Tony Belpaeme
Best short paper
Parents’ intention to adopt children’s robots decreases after seven days of use – Chaolan Lin
Best presentation
What Makes an Educational Robot Game Fun? Framework Analysis of Children’s Design Ideas – Elaheh Sanoubari, John Edison Muñoz , Ali Yamini, Neil Randall, and Kerstin Dautenhahn
Best paper nominees
Overtrusting a simple Non-humanoid Robot in a training process – Hadas Erel, Maya Koren, Andrey Grishko, Benny Megidish, and Noa Morag Yaar
Investigating the Impact of Encouraging Utterances by Conversational Robots on Subjective Well-Being: A 15-Day Sustained Interaction – Lingxuan Xiang, Hirofumi Kikuchi, Jie Yang, and Hideaki Kikuchi
Robots That Perform Norm-Based Reference Resolution – Mitchell Abrams, Christopher Thierauf, and Matthias Scheutz
Co-Movement and Trust Development in Human-Robot Teams -Nicola Webb, Sanja Milivojevic, Mehdi Sobhani, Zachary R. Madin, James C. Ward, Sagir Yusuf, Chris Baber, and Edmund R. Hunt
Exploring Children’s Strategies in Response to Robot’s Advice during a Group Task with iCub and Nao – Giulia Pusceddu, Mariapia Sangineto, Francesca Cocchella, Michela Bogliolo, Giulia Belgiovine, Linda Lastrico, Maura Casadio, Francesco Rea, Cristina Gena, and Alessandra Sciutti
Exploring the Effect of Robotic Embodiment and Empathetic Tone of LLMs on Empathy Elicitation – Liza Darwesh, Jaspreet Singh, Marin Marian, Eduard Alexa,Koen Hindriks , and Kim Baraka
Three Principles for Social Robots as Embodied Mediators – Randy Gomez, Eleanor Sandry, Selma Sabanovi´c , Deborah Szapiro, Vicky Charisi, Daniel Serrano, Thomas H. Weisswange, Matthew P. Aylett, Guangliang Li, Pouran gIrani, Eric Nichols, and Luis Merino
Who’s Behind The Service Robot? The Impact of Avatars on Priority Decisions – Franziska Babel, Sam Thellman, and Tom Ziemke
Competition Awards
Innovative Idea
- Runner-up: An Automated Maintenance Plant for Net Zero Highways – N’Zebo R. Anvo, Damian Palin, Jie Xu, Samuel Schaefer, Lavindra de Silva, Abir Al-Tabbaa, Fumiya Iida, Rachel Judson and Ioannis Brilakis
- Winner: AI Drivern Therapy Robot with Adaptive Twin Functionality – Yash, Ritali Vatsi, Jagannath Prasad Sahoo, Shruti Baghel, Vikas Sharma, Karan Raj Pant
Innovative Prototype
- Runner-up: Wall Climber bot: Autonomous Vertical Climbing – Vaibhav Kesharwani, Tarun Singh, Piyush Roy and Anmol Kumar
- Winner: Modular Robotic Furniture – Dahyun Kang, Wooick Jo, Nayoung Lee, Yoonseob Lim, and Sonya S. Kwak
Innovative Solution
- Runner-up: Modular Affordable Compliant Humanoid Platform for Interaction Studies – Oskar Palinko, Tamas Gabor
- Winner: Quori 2.0: A Community-Driven Modular Social Robot Platform – Ross Mead, Douglas Dooley, Simon Kim, Mark Yim, William Smart, Naomi Fitter, Andrew Schoen, Chris Birmingham, and Victor Paléologue