Note: Workshops and Tutorials will be held at Heriot-Watt University and the National Robotarium, separately from the main conference activities, which will be held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
Workshops will be organised in two sessions, a morning session and an afternoon session, with a common lunch break scheduled from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM. The morning session will run from 9:30 AM until approximately 1:00 PM, while the afternoon session will take place from 2:30 PM until approximately 6:00 PM.
Workshop organisers may choose to slightly extend the end of the morning session or bring forward the start of the afternoon session, considering also lunch break. Lunch will be served either at the National Robotorium or dedicated spaces closer to the allocated workshop rooms. Participants will attend the lunch break near their allocated workshop room.
Final room allocations will be announced after mid-February.
Schedule – March 16, 2026
| Workshop Name | Website | Program |
| Workshop on Designing Transparent and Understandable Robots (D-TUR) | https://dtur-hri.github.io/workshop2026/ | Morning |
| Failing Forward: Design and Deployment Lessons from Real-World Human-Robot Interaction | https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/failfowardhri2026 | Morning |
| Methodological Innovation in Designing Sensations and Sentiments from Robot Touch | https://sites.google.com/view/touchwellhri2026workshop/home | Morning |
| Unpacking Lived Experiences of Wizards of Oz | https://sites.google.com/view/wozhri/ | Morning |
| 3rd Workshop on Designerly HRI: Articulating the Value of Design Research for HRI | designerlyHRI.org | Morning |
| Robots for Care: Exploring Downstream Socio-Ethical Effects and Upstream Interventions | https://healthrobotsworkshop.github.io/HRI-workshop2026/ | Morning |
| Robots for Communities | https://sites.google.com/view/robots-for-communities/home | Morning |
| Errors, Mistakes and Failures in Humans and Robots | https://sites.google.com/view/emfhri26/home | Morning |
| InterAI: Interactive AI for Human-centered Robotics | https://sites.google.com/view/interaiworkshophri2026/home | Morning |
| Expressive robot faces with Vizij: a workshop / tutorial hybrid | https://vizij.ai/events/hri-2026-tutorial | Full day |
| Roboticist’s Guide to Working with Children: A Playful by Design Workshop | https://sites.google.com/iu.edu/hri26-roboticist-guide-child/call-for-participation | Full day |
| Responsible Outcomes and Operational Tools for Sustainability in HRI (ROOTS-HRI) | https://sites.google.com/view/roots-hri-2026/ | Full day |
| Workshop YOUR Study Design 2026! | https://sites.google.com/view/wysd-2026-at-hri | Full day |
| BPM-HRI: Best Practices and Methods in HRI Research | https://www.uk-hri.org/events/bpm-hri-2026 | Afternoon |
| Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction (LEAP-HRI): Evolving Assistance for Everyday Life | https://leap-hri.github.io/ | Afternoon |
| Cruel Optimism, Lucid Despair, and Precarious Hope in HRI | https://sites.google.com/view/hriworkshop2026/home | Afternoon |
| Multi-Agentic Systems in HRI (MAgicS-HRI): Bridging Design and Real-World Challenges for End Users | https://sites.google.com/view/magics-hri/home?authuser=0 | Afternoon |
| Equitable Robotics for Wellbeing (Eq-RW) | https://sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/eq-rw/ | Afternoon |
| A tutorial for finding and evaluating HRI scales | https://hri.lab.gmu.edu/workshops/hri-2026-workshop/ | Afternoon |
| Third International Workshop on Worker-Robot Relations: Futuring Worker Empowerment through Worldbuilding around Human-Robot Interactions | https://sites.google.com/view/wwrworkshop3/home | Afternoon |
| Empowering Human-Robot Communication Through Non-Linguistic Pathways | https://dml.uni-bremen.de/huroco/HRI2026/ | Afternoon |
| Exploring the Safety, Trust, Psychosocial, Legal and Economic Impact of Cyber Attacks on Social Robots: “What Should People Know and How Can We Mitigate Risks?” | https://securerobotics.net/ | Afternoon |