Human-Robot Interaction Through Extended Reality

Discover how extended reality is transforming human-robot collaboration into a seamless, shared experience of perception, decision-making, and embodied action at the forefront of the next generation of intelligent, human-centered robotics. Extended reality technologies are influencing the way humans perceive, interact, and collaborate with robotic systems. From industry to medicine, human–robot interaction and extended reality have evolved, enabling humans to use it as a medium for shared perception, decision-making, and embodied action. This authored book provides an exploration of how extended reality technologies serve as powerful interaction media for human–robot collaboration. It covers how immersive technologies enhance communication, perception, and shared decision-making between humans and intelligent robotic systems. Covering fundamental concepts and the evolution of human-robot interaction, the book systematically introduces extended reality and explains how sensing, visualization, multimodal feedback, and digital twins enable human-robot interaction through extended reality. This essential guide is a deep dive into a pivotal moment in both robotics and immersive technology, positioning extended reality-enabled human-robot interaction as a central pillar in the next generation of intelligent, collaborative, and human-centered robotic systems. Readers will find the book: Explores the differences between different extended reality technologies; Addresses the absence of a unified, structured framework that integrates human– robot interaction with the rapidly expanding domain of extended reality; Explains how immersive interfaces, sensing modalities, digital twins, cognitive ergonomics, and robot control strategies can be systematically combined to enable effective human–robot collaboration. Audience Academics, researchers, robotics engineers, and extended reality developers interested in the applications of human–robot interaction.