As robots are gradually leaving factory environments and moving into human populated environments, they need to achieve higher levels of interaction with humans.
Human-robot interaction (HRI) is a research field with a wide range of applications, future scenarios, and potentially a high economic impact. This interdisciplinary research area comprises classical robotics, cognitive sciences, and psychology. HRI research at LSR focuses on aspects of cooperative decision making, planning and joint action/manipulation including topics of verbal and haptic information exchange as well as emotional robots.