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News about Human-Robot Interaction
U-M, ASICS to launch groundbreaking sport innovation initiative
December 19, 2025
The University of Michigan and ASICS will establish the $25M ASICS x Michigan Sport Innovation Center, a pioneering research effort aimed at advancing human performance and sport science.
How a Design Retreat plots the future for Robotics
December 18, 2025
Robotics experts across fields came together in NewLab Detroit to envision the future of robotic design in society at the first Design Retreat for Human-Robot Interaction.
A common language to describe and assess human-agent teams
October 23, 2025
Using a new taxonomy, an analysis of testbeds that simulate human and autonomous agent teams finds a need for more complex testbeds to mimic real-world scenarios.
Sound familiar? Matching voices boost trust in self-driving cars
August 28, 2025
A University of Michigan study found that when a self-driving car's voice matches the driver's gender, people report higher levels of trust in the vehicle.
Authenticity in artwork with robotics receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
March 5, 2025
Patrícia Alves-Oliveira received a DARPA YFA for “Authenticity Markers in Artist-Robot Interaction,” a project developing methods to authenticate artwork by analyzing their entire creative process.
Even robots make mistakes: How humans walk with imperfect exoskeletons
March 12, 2024
When a lower limb exoskeleton does not operate properly, some users recover their step quickly while others overcompensate with their hip or ankle. Credit: Brenda Ahearn, Michigan Engineering.
How we can better link mind and machine
July 28, 2022
A team led by University of Michigan researchers recently tested how exoskeleton users responded to the task of matching haptic feedback to the timing of each footstep.
Robots who goof: Can we trust them again?
August 10, 2021
When robots make mistakes—and they do from time to time—reestablishing trust with human co-workers depends on how the machines own up to the errors and how human-like they appear.
An ultra-precise mind-controlled prosthetic
March 9, 2020
A new way to control a prosthetic arm with the brain.
How can pedestrians trust autonomous vehicles
January 23, 2020
Researchers observed how pedestrians act in a virtual reality city full of autonomous vehicles.
What humans want, in an automated vehicle
November 8, 2019
Agreeable, conscientious, and stable. These are three human personality traits that, it turns out, we want to see in our driverless cars regardless of whether we possess them ourselves, according to a new study from the University of Michigan.
Humans and robots: the emotional connection
July 22, 2019
Little has been known about whether groups that work with robots develop attachments, and if so, if such emotions affect team performance.