Common sense and social interaction related to daily-life environments are considerably important for autonomous robots, which support human activities. One of the practical approaches for acquiring such social interaction skills and semantic information as common sense in human activity is the application of recent machine learning techniques. Although recent machine learning techniques have been successful in realizing automatic manipulation and driving tasks, it is difficult to use these techniques in applications that require human-robot interaction experience. Humans have to perform several times over a long term to show embodied and social interaction behaviors to robots or learning systems. To address this problem, we propose a cloud-based immersive virtual reality (VR) platform which enables virtual human-robot interaction to collect the social and embodied knowledge of human activities in a variety of situations. To realize the flexible and reusable system, we develop a real-time bridging mechanism between ROS and Unity, which is one of the standard platforms for developing VR applications. We apply the proposed system to a robot competition field named RoboCup@Home to confirm the feasibility of the system in a realistic human-robot interaction scenario. Through demonstration experiments at the competition, we show the usefulness and potential of the system for the development and evaluation of social intelligence through human-robot interaction. The proposed VR platform enables robot systems to collect social experiences with several users in a short time. The platform also contributes in providing a dataset of social behaviors, which would be a key aspect for intelligent service robots to acquire social interaction skills based on machine learning techniques.
Towards social embodied cobots: The integration of an industrial cobot with a social virtual agent
National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Intelligent Industrial Technologies and Systems for Advanced Manufacturing（意大利国家研究委员会，智能制造先进工业技术与系统研究所）；University of Bologna（博洛尼亚大学）；German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence（德国人工智能研究中心）
Position: Robot Privacy as Embodied Boundary Work. Connecting Capabilities, Contexts, and Design Responses in Everyday Robotics
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)（香港科技大学（广州））；Tsinghua University（清华大学）；Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence（北京智源人工智能研究院）；The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）
Exploring Embodied Emotional Communication: A Human-oriented Review of Mediated Social Touch
School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University（北京航空航天大学机械工程及自动化学院）；College of Arts and Design, Beijing University of Chemical Technology（北京化工大学艺术与设计学院）；Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology（代尔夫特理工大学工业设计工程学院）；School of electronic information and electrical engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学电子信息与电气工程学院）
Mapping Embodied Affective Touch Strategies on a Humanoid Robot
Faculty of Engineering and Architecture（工程与建筑学院）；IDLab-AIRO, Ghent University – imec（IDLab-AIRO，根特大学 – imec）；Italian Institute of Technology（意大利理工学院）；School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology（电气工程与计算机科学学院，皇家理工学院）
Your Robot Will Feel You Now: Empathy in Robots and Embodied Agents
School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University（计算科学学院，西蒙弗雷泽大学）；School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University（交互艺术与技术学院，西蒙弗雷泽大学）
RobotEQ: Towards Social Proactive Intelligence in Embodied Agents
State Key Laboratory of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Tongji University（自主智能无人系统国家重点实验室，同济大学）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）；The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；CMVS, University of Oulu（奥卢大学CMVS）
Diminishing Returns of Intelligence: The Non-Linear Relationship Between LLM Scale and User Perception in Short-Duration Open-Ended Social Human-Robot Interactions
Transforming Monolithic Foundation Models into Embodied Multi-Agent Architectures for Human-Robot Collaboration
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University（计算机科学与技术系，清华大学）；School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（人工智能学院，北京邮电大学）
Constrained Human-AI Cooperation: An Inclusive Embodied Social Intelligence Challenge
Carnegie Mellon University（卡内基梅隆大学）；Peking University（北京大学）；University of California, Santa Barbara（加州大学圣芭芭拉分校）；Harvard University（哈佛大学）；University of Massachusetts Amherst（马萨诸塞大学阿姆赫斯特分校）；MIT（麻省理工学院）；Johns Hopkins University（约翰霍普金斯大学）；Honda Research Institute USA（本田美国研究院）
Sensing, Social, and Motion Intelligence in Embodied Navigation: A Comprehensive Survey
Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）；Harbin Engineering University（哈尔滨工程大学）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）；The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)（香港科学与技术大学（广州））；Zhejiang University（浙江大学）
Let Robots Feel Your Touch: Visuo-Tactile Cortical Alignment for Embodied Mirror Resonance
Institute for AI Industry Research, Tsinghua University（清华大学人工智能产业研究院）；Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering of Hainan Province, School of Biomedical Engineering, Hainan University（海南省生物医学工程重点实验室，海南大学生物医学工程学院）；School of New Media Art and Design, Beihang University（北航艺术与设计学院）；MoE Key Laboratory for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology（教育部生物医学光子学重点实验室，武汉光电研究所，华中科技大学）
Uppsala University（乌普萨拉大学）；INESC-ID（INESC-ID（葡萄牙系统与计算机工程研究所））；Instituto Superior Técnico（高等技术学院）；Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics, CNRS UMR 7222（法国国家科学研究中心UMR 7222智能系统与机器人研究所）；Sorbonne Université（索邦大学）
Embodied AI in Social Spaces: Responsible and Adaptive Robots in Complex Setting -- UKAIRS 2025 (Copy)
School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham（诺丁汉大学计算机科学学院）；School of Computing and Communications, The Open University（开放大学计算与通讯学院）；School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton（南安普顿大学电子与计算机科学学院）；Responsible AI, University of Southampton（南安普顿大学负责任的人工智能）；University of Liverpool（利兹大学）
SoMi-ToM: Evaluating Multi-Perspective Theory of Mind in Embodied Social Interactions
The University of Hong Kong（香港大学）；Carnegie Mellon University（卡内基梅隆大学）；Johns Hopkins University（约翰霍普金斯大学）；University of California Irvine（加州大学尔湾分校）；Stanford University（斯坦福大学）
OpenRobotLab, Shanghai AI Laboratory（上海人工智能实验室OpenRobotLab）；Nanjing University（南京大学）；The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；Xidian University（西安电子科技大学）；Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）；Zhejiang University（浙江大学）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）
Ritsumeikan University（立命馆大学）；The University of Electro-Communications（电气通信大学）；Okayama Prefectural University（冈山县立大学）；Waseda University（早稻田大学）；National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology（产业技术综合研究所）
