2 papers
cs.RO2026
How Should I Pick a Foundation Model for My Robot? In Favor of a Community Evaluation Framework for Social Robots
Eric Nichols, Alva Markelius, Hatice Gunes
Researchers who seek to build social robot applications on foundation models are faced with a difficult question: how should we pick a model? Public leaderboards offer little guida…
cs.HC2026
Toward Personalized Social Robots for Child Well-being: Data Requirement Principles from a Recommender-System Perspective
Jin Huang, Eric Nichols, Fethiye Irmak Dogan +1
Social robots are increasingly deployed in clinical settings to support the well-being of children, where effective support must be personalized to each child. Personalization, cho…