Workshop was held July 13-14, 2022.

The overarching goal of this workshop is to understand the progress made in design and development of human-like robots and identify the research challenges that remain to be addressed. The workshop will address topics such as intelligent sensitive skin materials, human body forming and manufacturing techniques, muscle-quality actuators, human-like fluidic motions, neuromorphic computing architectures, imitation learning and adaptation techniques, emotion and affect for socially-robust interaction, and interaction paradigms for suspension of disbelief. This topical area provides natural synergy among various disciplines and thus we anticipate broad interdisciplinary participation in the program.

Session topics and subtopics:

1. Natural, Human-Like Skins with Distributed Sensing and Processing
2. Human-Like Actuation, Mechanics, and Locomotion for Full Body Response
3. Human/Robot Interaction – software, speech, affective & emotive aspects
4. Learning, Adaptivity and Social Agility
5. Education and Workforce – What’s missing from Engineering curricula to make more progress?