When MLLM agents appear to “understand” each other, are they building shared understanding? Or are they just over-explaining their way to success? We find: ➡️ these agents can coordinate without forming human-like conventions! Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2606.08081 #LLM #AI #NLP #CognitiveScience

Happy to share that our paper “Real-time emotion generation in human-robot dialogue using large language models” has reached 100 citations on Google Scholar! 🎉 Grateful to see this work being read, used and built upon by the community.

A moment from Therapist vs. Robot at InScience festival: the audience applauding Olivia’s answer. It was striking to see how quickly people connected with the interaction. A reminder that language, face, and timing matter in #HRI. @mpi-nl.bsky.social @furhatrobotics.bsky.social #robotics #llm #ai

🎉 #Donders #Cube Award for Sharon Unsworth 🎉 for her outstanding commitment to the #Kletskoppen #Festival. 🏆 Poster prizes went to: • Danielle Houwing (MPI) • Marco Gandolfo (DCC) • Chinmaya Mishra (MPI) • Zehra Kazmi (DCN) • Umut Can ALTIN (DCC) www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

I had the opportunity to present a poster on our latest work investigating how a robot can signal understanding at the Donders’s Day recently. Had a wonderful poster session with many insightful discussions. And the cherry on top was winning the poster prize 🏆 #HRI #Robotics #Research

Very happy to see my interview with Vox magazine out now! It was a fun interview where I tried to explain how simple robot behaviors are often a result of the interplay between many AI systems working together. #robotics #HRI #AI #LLM

📢New Paper Alert! 📢 Two of our papers are now published online in LNCS. Both hold special significance for me! One is the final project of my PhD and the other is from a project I remotely supervised with bachelor’s students in India. 🧵👇

It was a great start to the new year! I had the privilege of visiting IIIT-Delhi and deliver a talk on “The Perception and Generation of Facial Cues in Human-Robot Interaction”. I had many insightful discussions & a great time at the institute! #HRI #Robotics

I made an HRI Starter Pack! If you are a Human-Robot Interaction or Social Robotics researcher and I missed you while scrolling through bsky's suggestions, just ping me and I'll add ya. go.bsky.app/CsnNn3s