<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Dear Colleagues,</span><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br></div>We are now accepting submissions to the <b>Robotics for People: Perspectives on Interaction, Learning, and Safety</b> workshop, to be held at the Robotics: Science and Systems 2021 conference.<br><br>This is a full-day workshop that aims to bring together experts from the Human-Robot Interaction, Machine Learning, and Motion Planning communities to create a road map for safer, smarter robots.<br><br>Our workshop accepts <b>extended abstracts</b> (2 pgs excluding references) and <b>short/position papers</b> (4 pgs excluding references) in IEEE two column format. Papers will undergo a double-blind peer review process, and accepted papers and posters will be hosted on our website. We are a non-archival workshop, meaning we also accept iterations on previous or ongoing work.<br><br>The workshop will include keynote talks, a panel debate, a poster session, and short talks for accepted papers.<br><br>Topics for submission include (but are not limited to):<br><br>- Decision-making under uncertainty and safety-oriented approaches<br>- Safety considerations in uncertain, interactive settings<br>- Safety-critical applications for HRI<br>- Probabilistic models for robot learning<br>- Social navigation<br>- Human-robot collaboration and human behavior modeling<br>- Multi-agent approaches for human-robot teams<br>- Calibrating and estimating uncertainty in learned models<br>- Learning from demonstration<br>- Human-interactive robot learning<br>- Cognitive architectures for interactive robots<br>- HRI datasets, metrics, and benchmarks<br>- Robot-interpretable human models<br>- Explainability, transparency, and interpretability<br><br>More information is available at our website: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/r4p2021/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">https://sites.google.com/view/r4p2021/</a><br><br><b>*** Important Dates ***</b><br>Paper Submission: June 20th, 2021, anywhere on Earth<br>Notification of Acceptance: July 1st, 2021, anywhere on Earth<br>Camera-ready Deadline: July 12th, 2021, anywhere on Earth<br><br><b>*** Confirmed Speakers ***<br></b>Yiannis Demiris, Imperial College London, UK<br>Stefanie Tellex, Brown University, USA<br>Dan Bohus, Microsoft AI Research, USA<br>Changliu Liu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:medium;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"></span>*** Organizing Committee ***</b><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-size:16px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><b>Ge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