Human-Robot Interaction Summer School

Robots are increasingly present in everyday environments, where they must interpret human actions, communicate intentions, and support shared tasks. Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) examines how such collaboration works in practice and how people understand and respond to robot behaviour.

This course provides an introductory and hands-on view of HRI. We begin by introducing core concepts, including common interaction goals, task types and embodiments, and how interaction unfolds through sensing and action. Students will work with an open-source robotic platform – the SO-101 arm via LeRobot – an open library from Hugging Face for robot control, demonstration collection and behaviour building, as well as the Reachy Mini, a compact robot designed for expressive movement and social interaction.

This intensive course runs for two weeks, and includes lectures, discussions and preparation for implementation in the morning, plus independent work in the afternoon. The morning sessions end with time for practical questions. The instructor will be present in the afternoon to assist with coding.