The paper "Why did My Robot Just Change Personality? Prompting Guidelines for a Grounded Robot Persona in LLM-Based HRI" addresses the lack of clear prompt design in human‑robot interaction using large language models. It proposes a framework and a structured prompt template with eight functional components to specify, bound, and adapt robot behavior. The authors base their guidelines on a review of prior work and on survey data from 27 HRI experts, highlighting issues such as unclear robot personality, the need for user adaptation, and ethical concerns around safety, deception, and governance.
By Ashita Ashok, Franziska Babel, Patrick Holthaus, Rucha Khot, Karla Bransky, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Karsten Berns, Silvia Rossi, Minha Lee, Guy Laban
arXiv:2606. 10276v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For natural human-robot interaction, a robot must understand human intent expressed not only through language but also through nonverbal signals such as gestures and gaze.
By Dongjun Lee, Juheon Choi, Dong Kyu Shin, Sinjae Kang, Kimin Lee
arXiv:2608. 16806v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated capabilities in in-context learning, task decomposition, step-by-step reasoning, and code generation, driving their gradual evolution from text generation models into the core of agents capable of perceiving environments, invoking tools, and executing tasks.
By Jiawei Liu, Jiacheng Guo, Tian Zhang, Yiwei Xu, Juan Wang, Jinlin Fan, Bowen Xiao, Chi Guo, Keyan Guo, Hongxin Hu
arXiv:2608. 15549v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Programming small social robots from natural-language instructions requires more than invoking isolated APIs.
By Xiao Wang, Lu Dong, Ifeoma Nwogu, Srirangaraj Setlur, Venu Govindaraju
arXiv:2606. 17511v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot learning and embodied agents now require simulation to serve as a shared execution substrate linking control, skills, and planning, not only as a renderer, controller testbed, or fixed task environment.
By Haoran Lu, Songling Liu, Yue Chen, Guo Ye, Mutian Shen, Shuyang Yu, Yu Xiao, Jihai Zhao, Shang Wu, Jianshu Zhang, Xiangtian Gui, Chuye Hong, Yuran Wang, Maojiang Su, Jiayi Wang, Ruihai Wu, Zhaoran Wang, Han Liu
arXiv:2607. 11377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term physical coexistence with intelligent robots requires more than capable robot policies.
By Weiqi Jin, Peijun Tang, Kuncheng Luo, Baifu Huang, Binyan Sun, Haotian Yang, Shangjin Xie, Jianan Wang