The Proceedings for the 2nd International Workshop on Cultural Robotics @ HRI’25 Has Been Sent to the Publishers!

After many delays, several rounds of editing, rewrites, formatting, and all the other challenges that come with bringing together high-quality manuscripts by Cultural Robotics researchers from across the globe, the CultureBots editorial team is proud to announce that the final, camera-ready version of the Proceedings for the 2nd International Workshop on Cultural Robotics @ HRI ’25 has been sent to Springer for publishing!

We are especially proud of this edition, as it took a full decade to run the second workshop since our first one at IEEE Ro-Man in 2015. And while we have published an edited volume since then, it’s been a long time since researchers in the field have had a chance to come together in-person. The HRI’25 workshop was an important reminder that while we are able to work across vast distances, crossing multiple timezones and socio-geographic boundaries, there’s nothing like meeting face-to-face.

The edited volume is divided into three themes. These are: I. Cultural Sensing and Sensitivities, II. Art + Robotics, and III. Cultural Futures. We are proud and grateful to have the Forward of our collected volume penned by Prof. Müge Belek Fialho Teixeira from Queensland University of Technology, where she reflects on the concept of Culture in relation to the chapters in the book. We are also eternally grateful to the Cultural Robotics Community for entrusting us with their research yet again, so that we could bring this collected volume to publication.

Last but not least, the discourse around Cultural Robotics will continue in 2026 at the 18th Annual International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2026), where the field of Cultural Robotics will have its own special section! Be sure to check out the call for contributions, and we look forward to seeing you in London in 2026!