HRI 2027 — 22nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

HRI is the premier international venue dedicated to human-robot interaction, and its 22nd edition takes place March 8-12, 2027 in Santa Clara, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Jointly organised by ACM and IEEE, it is a highly selective, multidisciplinary conference bridging robotics, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, design, cognitive science and the social sciences.

The programme combines full-paper technical sessions with workshops, tutorials, a late-breaking reports track, video and demo sessions, and a student design competition. Recurring themes include social and collaborative robots, trust and safety, robot learning, multimodal interaction, and increasingly the role of large language and foundation models in shaping how people communicate with machines.

For attendees, HRI offers a uniquely interdisciplinary crowd and a rigorous single-track core programme, making it one of the best places to see where robots and people actually meet. The Silicon Valley location for 2027 places the conference next to a dense concentration of robotics and AI industry, adding strong networking value alongside the research.