Technical Programme

ICRES 2026 Program Booklet PDF

Day 1: Thursday 17 September 2026

08:00 – 09:00 Registration (Vincent Building main entrance)
09:00 – 09:20 Opening of ICRES 2026
09:20 – 10:20  |  Plenary Presentation 1 (Vincent auditorium)  |  Chair: Sarah Fletcher Building an ethical future: How robotics and AI are transforming work, health, and sustainability Prof. Samia Nefti-Meziani, University of Birmingham
10:20 – 10:40 Coffee Break (Vincent atrium)

Session 1: Robotics Standards and Ethics Regulation 10:40 – 12:00 · Vincent auditorium · Chair: Osman Tokhi

10:40 – 11:00 Robotic Standards and Standardisation at BSI Takiyah Williams (BSI)
11:00 – 11:20 A Standards-Oriented Gap Analysis for Hybrid Human-Robot Skill Orchestration Laura Moya-Ruiz, Francisco Fraile, Sarah Fletcher and Raul Poler
11:20 – 11:40 Partner, Playmate, Persecutor: Safeguarding Against Coercive Evolution of Assistive Robots Catherine Menon, Jeni Mitchell, Sílvia Moros and Gabriella Lakatos
11:40 – 12:00 Toward a Normative Ethical Framework for Embedding Public Values in Autonomous AI and Robotic Systems Hyoungbin Park
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch (Vincent atrium)
13:00 – 14:00  |  Plenary Presentation 2 (Vincent auditorium)  |  Chair: Iveta Eimontaite Making the invisible visible: Building AI governance that actually works Maria Axente, Responsible Intelligence

Session 2: Human-Centred AI Communication 14:00 – 15:00 · Vincent auditorium · Chair: Christopher Burns

14:00 – 14:20 Language Mirrors Scientific and Technological Evolution: Terminological Innovation, Conceptual Drift, and Ontological Transformation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Isabel Ferreira
14:20 – 14:40 Worker-Centric Automation for Remanufacturing: the Campetella Robotic Pilot Gabriele Marchello
14:40 – 15:00 Governing Escalation in Reflexive Human–AI Dialogue: A Layered Framework for Boundary-Respecting Interaction Yiping Bai
15:00 – 15:20 Coffee Break (Vincent atrium)
15:20 – 16:20  |  Plenary Presentation 3 (Vincent auditorium)  |  Chair: Gilbert Tang From prompt engineering to prompt programming for providing automation in LLM-based systems Prof. Mark Levene, Birkbeck College, University of London

Session 3: Trust, Emotion and Ethical Human-Robot Design 16:20 – 18:00 · Vincent auditorium · Chair: Gilbert Tang

16:20 – 16:40 Towards a Context-Adaptive Trust Scale for Industrial Human-Robot Collaboration: Development and Initial Content Validation Jingyi Zhang, Christopher Burns, Pratyush Pallav and Sarah Fletcher
16:40 – 17:00 Telerobotic Collaborative Intelligence Systems – Ethical and Regulatory Considerations in Industry 5.0 Ines Filipa Fernandes Ramos, Maria Chiara Leva, Gabriele Gianini and Ernesto Damiani
17:00 – 17:20 Humanoid Robot Governance: Relational Lifecycle Risk and the Limits of Anthropomorphic Design Kyoko Yoshinaga
17:20 – 17:40 Emotional Design in Robotics: Myths and Red Lines Isabel Ferreira
17:40 – 18:00 Embedding Ethics in Robotics Engineering Gilbert Tang, Anne-Marie Oostveen, Rebecca Raper, Richard Halliburton and Phil Webb

Social Programme

19:00 Banquet – Mitchell Hall, Cranfield

Day 2: Friday 18 September 2026

08:00 – 09:00 Registration (Vincent Building main entrance)
09:00 – 10:00  |  Plenary Presentation 4 (Vincent auditorium)  |  Chair: Osman Tokhi What could possibly go wrong? A case study in responsible robotics Prof. Alan Winfield, University of the West of England
10:00 – 10:20 Coffee Break (Vincent atrium)

Session 4: AI, Cybernetic Avatars and LLMs: impacts on Economy and Society 10:20 – 12:00 · Vincent auditorium · Chairs: Rui Ota and Masahiro Sato

10:20 – 10:40 Dignity as the Mediating Principle: Postmortem Personhood in the Age of Digital Resurrection Kunifumi Saito
10:40 – 11:00 Automation and Structural Change in an Open Economy Rui Ota, Liuchun Deng, Minako Fujio and Xin Lin
11:00 – 11:20 Social Welfare and Technological Innovation in an Agentic Economy Masahiro Sato and Rui Ota
11:20 – 11:40 Task delegation to generative AI: trust, risk perception, and implications for trustworthy AI Hidetaka Oshima, Shinichi Yamaguchi, Yukiko Osaka and Tomoaki Watanabe
11:40 – 12:00 A Legal Framework for Regulating Deepfakes in the Avatar Age: A Japanese Law Perspective Takayuki Matsuo
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch (Vincent atrium)

Session 5: Human-Robot Trust and Work in the Industry 5.0 era 13:00 – 14:40 · Vincent auditorium · Chair: Vaishnavi Sashidharan

13:00 – 13:20 Trust Calibration as the Engineering Condition for Human–Robot Collaboration at Scale Gabriele Marchello
13:20 – 13:40 Human Factors Challenges in Human–Robot Collaboration: Trust, Acceptance, and Future Directions Across Two White Goods Manufacturing Use Cases Maryam Bathaei Javareshk, Vaishnavi Sashidharan, Iveta Eimontaite and Sarah Fletcher
13:40 – 14:00 Robot-in-the-Loop Collaboration: Ethics and Responsibility for Manual Professions Sotiris Manitsaris, Alina Glushkova and Alexandros Spyridonos
14:00 – 14:20 From Expectation to Experience: Understanding Operator Perceptions of Industrial Human–Robot Collaboration Vaishnavi Sashidharan, Iveta Eimontaite and Sarah Fletcher
14:20 – 14:40 Neoliberalism, Artificial Intelligence, and the Transformation of Work: The Future is Now Isabel Ferreira
14:40 – 15:00 Coffee Break (Vincent atrium)

Session 6: AI and Military Applications 15:00 – 16:00 · Vincent auditorium · Chair: Matthew Kilbane

15:00 – 15:20 The Robotic Mosaic: From Iran’s Antifragile Doctrine to Ukraine’s Machine War Matthew Kilbane
15:20 – 15:40 Waging War in the ‘Foggy Infosphere’: a socio-technical framing of military edge-AI Matt Jarvis
15:40 – 16:00 Toward an Ethically Correct AI Kill Chain Selmer Bringsjord, Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu and Alexander Bringsjord

Session 7: Ethics, Legality and Transparency 16:00 – 17:40 · Vincent auditorium · Chair: Kyoko Yoshinaga

16:00 – 16:20 When Transparency Deceives: Risks and Ethical Safeguards in XAI Alessia Vlasceanu, Emily C. Collins and Caroline Jay
16:20 – 16:40 Industry Consensus as Safe Harbor: Risk Assessment Standards as a Reasonable-Care Anchor for AI Agent Liability After Section 230 Eddan Katz
16:40 – 17:00 The ethical risks and mitigation of LLM enhanced robots Yuting Li and Alan Winfield
17:00 – 17:20 To go or not to go with the flow Endre Kadar
17:20 – 17:40 Dignity Over Alignment: Long-term Care and AI Interaction Thomas Arnold and Matthias Scheutz
17:40 – 18:00 Closure of ICRES 2026

Provisional programme – subject to change. Last updated: 4 September 2026. The downloadable PDF is the definitive version.

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