Robots and labour

• Unifor. (2018). The Future of Work is Ours: Confronting risks and seizing opportunities of technological change (pp. 1–25). https://www.unifor.org/sites/default/files/legacy/documents/document/1173-future_of_work_eng_no_bleed.pdf
• Nakajima, N., Reynolds-Cuéllar, P., Lynch, C., & Darling, K. (2026). Dull, dirty, dangerous: Understanding the past, present, and future of a key motivation for robotics. Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Hri ’26, 366–375. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757279.3785574

Robots and labour (revisiting classics)

• "Rossum's Universal Robots" — Karel Čapek.
• E. G. Christoforou and A. Müller, "R.U.R. Revisited: Perspectives and Reflections on Modern Robotics," Int. J. Soc. Robot., vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 237–246, 2016, doi: 10.1007/s12369-015-0327-6.

Re-thinking narratives about why we want robots

• L. D. Riek and L. Irani, "The Future Is Rosie?: Disempowering Arguments About Automation and What to Do About It," in Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama Japan: ACM, Apr. 2025, pp. 1–14. doi: 10.1145/3706598.3714151.
• Alacovska, A. (2025). Sci-fi Capital and Humanoid Robotics: Conjuring the Speculative Value of Not-Yet-Existing Technologies. Sociology, 00380385251380978. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385251380978

Robot's power to influence

• Risa Maeda, Drazen Brscic, and Takayuki Kanda. 2021. Influencing Moral Behavior Through Mere Observation of Robot Work: Video-based Survey on Littering Behavior. 46. Retrieved July 12, 2026 from https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021hri..conf...46M
• Franziska Babel, Robin Welsch, Linda Miller, Philipp Hock, Sam Thellman, and Tom Ziemke. 2024. A Robot Jumping the Queue: Expectations About Politeness and Power During Conflicts in Everyday Human-Robot Encounters. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642082

The dark side of cute robots

• Lacey, C., & Caudwell, C. (2019). Cuteness as a "Dark Pattern" in Home Robots. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2019-March, 374–381. https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2019.8673274

AI for robotics

• "Ch. 4. Foundation Models in Robotics" in Imran, A., & Gopalakrishnan, K. (2025). AI for Robotics: Toward Embodied and General Intelligence in the Physical World. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0989-7

AI-powered system safety

• Li, Q., Yin, B., Huang, W., Liu, R., Zou, B., Yu, R., Ye, J., Yu, W., & Wang, X. (2026). Vision-Language-Action Safety: Threats, Challenges, Evaluations, and Mechanisms (arXiv:2604.23775). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.23775
• Akhtar Khan, Maaz Akhtar, Sheheryar Mohsin Qureshi, Muzzamil Mustafa, Naser A. Alsaleh, and Imran Ahmad. 2026. A Systematic Review of Safety-Driven Approaches in Human–Robot Collaborative Systems. Sensors 26, 7: 2079. https://doi.org/10.3390/s26072079

Machine Ethics

• Tolmeijer, S., Kneer, M., Sarasua, C., Christen, M., Bernstein, A. (2020). Implementations in Machine Ethics. ACM Computing Surveys, 53(6), 1–38. https://doi.org/10.1145/3419633
• Arkin, R. C. (2008). Governing Lethal Behavior: Embedding Ethics in a Hybrid Deliberative/Reactive Robot Architecture. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, HRI ’08, 121–128. https://doi.org/10.1145/1349822.1349839

Human-AI vs. Human-robot relationship harms

• Zhang, R., Li, H., Meng, H., Zhan, J., Gan, H., & Lee, Y.-C. (2025). The Dark Side of AI Companionship: A Taxonomy of Harmful Algorithmic Behaviors in Human-AI Relationships. Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI ’25, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713429
• de Graaf, M. M. A. (2016). An Ethical Evaluation of Human–Robot Relationships. International Journal of Social Robotics, 8(4), 589–598. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-016-0368-5

Robots and privacy

• Dietrich, M., Sarkisian, A., & Weisswange, T. H. (2026). Bystander privacy implications of robots in everyday spaces: A scoping review. Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Hri ’26, 196–205. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757279.3785586
• M. Rueben and W. D. Smart, "Privacy in Human-Robot Interaction: Survey and Future Work," 2016.