About Human-aware Embodied AI (HEAI) | IROS 2025 Workshop
Embodied AI, i.e., the development of technologies capable of interacting with their physical environment, witnessed substantial progress in the last years, mainly thanks to the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), and other large foundation AI approaches. These breakthroughs have enabled human users to interact with embodied agents (e.g., robots) through natural language, instructing an embodied agent to navigate to a given position, searching for a specific object, or interacting with the object to perform a certain manipulation.
                
                However, while being inherently human-centric, these
                problems are often addressed without considering the presence of
                human users and their interaction with the agent throughout the
                execution of the embodied task. Considering that the long-term
                goal of Embodied AI is to create a Co-Habitat for humans and
                agents, Bi-directional communication (i.e.,
                human-to-agent and agent-to-human) emerges as a key challenge
                that must be addressed to effectively resolve uncertainty during
                the full cycle of robotic perception, reasoning, planning,
                action, and verification.
              
However, the problem of creating an intuitive, effective, trustworthy, and robust human-agent Co-Habitat remains largely unexplored.
                
                This workshop will address the challenges of creating
                seamless human-agent Co-Habitats, focusing on
                trustworthiness (when agents don't know), robustness
                (when agents ask for help), and intuitive collaboration
                (bi-directional
                interaction). We aim to explore methods for integrating MLLMs
                into embodied agents for effective multimodal interactions,
                identifying and mitigating the risks of model hallucinations,
                and modeling human error and communication patterns.
              
Schedule
Tentative schedule as follows:
| Time | Talk | Comments | 
|---|---|---|
| 13:00 - 13:10 | Welcome & Opening Remarkss | |
| 13:10 - 13:40 | Roozbeh Mottaghi | Leveraging Human Experience in Robotics | 
| 13:40 - 14:10 | He Wang | Generalizable and Functional Dexterous Grasping and Manipulation via Sim2Real | 
| 14:10 - 14:40 | Stefano Dafarra | ergoCub: the Embodied AI human aware humanoid | 
| 14:40 - 15:30 | Coffee Break, Poster session & AMA (Ask Me Anything) panel | |
| 15:30 - 15:55 | Best posters presentation | 8 minutes each + 3 min Q&A | 
| 15:55 - 16:25 | Angelica Lim | Humans Aren't Robots: Expressive, Multimodal Human Simulation for Robotics | 
| 16:25 - 16:55 | Gaofeng Li | Agile Telerobotic Systems: Embodied and Intelligent Robotic Manipulation Learning with Human-in-the-Loop | 
| 16:55 - 17:00 | Closing Remarks | |
Call for Contributions
We call for papers covering relevant topics, including but not limited to:
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- ▪ Collaborative Human-Agent interaction
 - ▪ Multimodal Human-Agent interaction
 - ▪ Interaction-enabled simulators / benchmarks
 - ▪ Interaction personalization
 - ▪ Interaction adaptation
 
 
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- ▪ Uncertainty understanding
 - ▪ Foundation models (VLM/VLAs)
 - ▪Human behaviour modeling
 - ▪ Embodied reasoning
 - ▪ Ethics & Safety
 
 
            Submission Guidelines
            
            We invite submissions of up to
            4 pages (excluding references) of non-archival papers using
            the official
            template. Submissions previously published elsewhere are also welcome.
            
            To submit a paper, please see the official
              OpenReview page. 
            
              
                  Important
                Dates
              
              
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                  ๐
 Submission opens:
                  June 15th, 2025
                
 
                - 
                  โณ Submission deadline:
                  September 26th, 2025
                
 
                - 
                  โ
 Acceptance notification:
                  October 08th, 2025
                
 
              
            
            
            
              
Important Dates
- ๐ Submission opens: June 15th, 2025
 - โณ Submission deadline: September 26th, 2025
 - โ Acceptance notification: October 08th, 2025
 
NEWS! The authors of the two best papers will have their workshop registration covered. In addition, travel support is available.
Further details about the Poster Presentation will be shared soon.
Organizing Committee
                  Francesco Taioli
                  Yiming Wang
                  Xinyuan Qian
                  Jacob Krantz
                  Angel X Chang
                  Alessandro Vinciarelli
                  Alessio Del Bue
https://www.iit.it/it/people-details/-/people/alessio-delbue
                  Marco Cristani