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Human-robot interaction design retreat


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25 November 2025



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Seventeen multicoloured post-it notes are roughly positioned in a strip shape on a white board. Each one of them has a hand drawn sketch in pen on them, answering the prompt on one of the post-it notes "AI is...." The sketches are all very different, some are patterns representing data, some are cartoons, some show drawings of things like data centres, or stick figure drawings of the people involved.Rick Payne and team / Ai is… Banner / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0.

Earlier this year, the HRI Design Retreat brought together experts from academia and industry in the field of design for human-robot interaction (HRI). During the two-day event, which featured hands-on interactive activities, participants explored the future of design for HRI, how this could be shaped, and worked on a roadmap for the next five-ten years.

The retreat was organised by Patrícia Alves-Oliveira and Anastasia Kouvaras Ostrowski, and you can see a short documentary about it below:

Find out more about the retreat here.




Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for Robohub and AIhub.
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