COVID-19 Update: After evaluating all the possibilities, in accordance with the strong recommendation from our Event Organization Office, we have decided to transform the 14th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR2021) into a virtual conference for the health and safety of our participants and staff. Please check the registration page for further information.
In this relation, we also announce the setting of a new date for the virtual HFR2021 conference, which will be held on October 28-29, 2021.

 

 

The growing need to automate daily tasks, combined with new robot technologies, is driving the development of human-friendly robots, i.e., safe and dependable machines, operating in the close vicinity to humans or directly interacting with them in a wide range of domains. The technological shift from classical industrial robots, which are safely kept away from humans in cages, to robots that are used in close collaboration with humans, is facing major challenges that need to be overcome.

 

The objective of the workshop is to stimulate a focused single-track discussion and bring together researchers so to share knowledge on design, control, safety and ethical issues, concerning the introduction of robots into everyday life.