Moving Robots from Factories and Warehouses into Homes and Offices
Justin Hart at the Texas Symposium on Machine Learning, Responsible AI & Robotics: service robots in everyday human environments.
Videos
Talks, demonstrations, and videos from my research and the Living with Robots Laboratory.
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Talks and presentations
Invited talks, panels, and paper presentations. Event dates are used when known.
Moonshot Ideas for AI and Robotics in Dementia Prevention and Care
Full CAPS & TIDAL session, including Justin Hart’s presentation and the panel with Joydeep Biswas, Nanshu Lu, and David Paydarfar.
Domestic Robots in the Living with Robots Laboratory
Justin Hart’s Austin Robotics Meetup talk on robots that work in homes and offices.
Dobby: An Interactive Robot Incorporating Large Language Models
Justin Hart and Yifan Xu demonstrate Dobby at the UT Austin Good Systems Symposium.
Meet Dobby, a Conversational Service Robot!
Carson Stark and Justin Hart introduce Dobby at UT’s Hook ’Em House at SXSW 2024.
SCAND: A Large-Scale Dataset of Demonstrations for Social Navigation
Seven-minute paper presentation from Haresh Karnan for RA-L / IROS 2022.
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Getting Robots into Every Home and Workplace
Justin Hart’s invited AI seminar for UBC CAIDA.
Ubiquitous HRI and Social Navigation
Justin Hart’s invited talk at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction.
Robotics Panel: Last Mile Autonomous Delivery Systems
Justin Hart, Junfeng Jiao, Joydeep Biswas, and Luis Sentis discuss campus delivery robots; Peter Stone moderates.
Signaling to Peers Using Human-Inspired Communicative Cues
Justin Hart’s BitHacks talk on how robots communicate their intentions to people.
The Human in the Loop: Virtual RoboCup Humanoid Open Workshop
Full workshop featuring invited speakers Justin Hart and Luca Iocchi. Includes the event for Hart’s talk on human-inspired communicative cues.
Open-World Reasoning for Service Robots
ICAPS 2019 Robotics II session recording. The first listed paper is by Yuqian Jiang, Nick Walker, Justin Hart, and Peter Stone.
Human Interaction with Robots
Full CreativeMornings Vancouver talk, listed in the CV as “Learning about people to build better robots.”
The Self-Awareness of Robots
Justin Hart’s ideacity 2013 talk on robots learning models of their bodies and senses.
Living with Robots Laboratory
All four public uploads from the LivingWithRobotsLab YouTube channel, checked September 30, 2026. Sorted by upload date. Visit the lab channel.
Dobby: RO-MAN Video Accompaniment
Video accompanying the RO-MAN 2024 paper on Dobby, a conversational service robot driven by GPT-4.
Dobby at SXSW with President Hartzell
The lab’s clip of Dobby meeting UT Austin President Jay Hartzell at SXSW 2024.
Dobby — Spooky Edition
Halloween 2023 demonstration of the lab’s conversational robot, which took second place in the TRGS costume competition.
Dobby: A Conversational Service Robot Driven by GPT-4
The lab’s original Dobby demonstration, with work by Carson Stark and collaborators.
Research videos and profiles
Research demonstrations and interviews, sorted by upload date.
SCAND: Dataset Overview
An overview video for the Socially CompliAnt Navigation Dataset.
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Predicting Walking Targets from Gaze
Short ICRA 2021 research clip on predicting pedestrian destinations from gaze.
Using Human-Inspired Signals to Disambiguate Navigational Intentions
A short research demonstration associated with the ICSR 2020 paper.
Human Gaze and Robot Navigation Signals
Research video comparing human gaze cues and robot LED signals during navigation.
PRISM: Semantic Mapping from Room Signs
IROS 2018 demonstration of a robot reading door signs to label its navigation map.
Justin Hart — Living Portrait
Trevor Jansen’s CreativeMornings profile of Justin Hart’s human–robot collaboration research.
ROBOT — A Film by Liz Garbus
Focus Forward’s short documentary on social robots, connected to “No Fair! An Interaction with a Cheating Robot.”
RoboCup@Home
Qualification and competition videos from UT Austin Villa @ Home and LisTex United, sorted by upload date. Competition years appear in the titles. Visit the UT Austin Villa archive.
LisTex United — 2026 RoboCup@Home Qualification
Qualification video for LisTex United, the joint UT Austin and IST–University of Lisbon team using a Booster T1 humanoid robot for household tasks.
2026 RoboCup@Home Qualification
UT Austin Villa @ Home’s qualification video for the 2026 competition.
2024 RoboCup@Home Qualification
Team qualification video, also reused on the official 2025 team page.
2023 RoboCup@Home Qualification
UT Austin Villa @ Home’s 2023 qualification video.
2022 RoboCup@Home Qualification
UT Austin Villa @ Home’s 2022 qualification video.
2021 RoboCup@Home Qualification
Team demonstration for RoboCup@Home 2021.
2020 RoboCup@Home Team Video
Qualification video for the 2020 RoboCup@Home season.
2019 RoboCup@Home Qualification
UT Austin Villa @ Home’s 2019 qualification video.
2018 RoboCup@Home Qualification
The team’s 2018 qualification video, uploaded by Justin Hart.
RoboCup@Home 2017 — Third Place
Competition highlights and team capabilities from the UT Human Centered Robotics Lab.
2017 RoboCup@Home Qualification (DSPL)
Domestic Standard Platform League qualification video, hosted by RoboCup@Home.