Cultural Robotics examines how robots are shaped by, express, and transform cultures across art and performance, language and ritual, design and craft, ethics and governance, and every day socially interactive practices.
Hooman Samani, along with Saina Akhond, will be General Chairs of the conference. The conference will run from the 1st to the 4th of July, 2026. Co-chairing the Cultural Robotics track are Jeffrey Koh and Belinda Dunstan, who have edited several books (1, 2, 3) and authored numerous peer-reviewed articles on Cultural Robotics, respectively.