Dear all, We are pleased to announce an extended submission deadline for our workshop “Failing Forward: Design and Deployment Lessons from Real-World Human-Robot Interaction”, held at HRI 2026 on 16 March 2026 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. 📆 New submission deadline: 22 February 2026, Acceptance notification: 2 March 2026 This in-person, half-day workshop invites researchers and practitioners to share design and deployment lessons from real-world HRI. We particularly encourage contributions reflecting on challenges, failures, and unexpected outcomes — because what didn’t work is often just as valuable as what did. The workshop will feature interactive sessions structured around a taxonomy of key phases in field deployment and the major factors influencing success and failure. Participants will collaboratively refine this taxonomy, which we plan to release as an open-source tool to support future real-world HRI research and practice. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): • Human unpredictability, stakeholder alignment, and cultural/social factors • Robust perception and planning under uncertainty • Error detection, recovery, prevention, and trust repair • Long-term, in-situ evaluation and data quality challenges • Governance, safety, privacy, and ethical frameworks We invite submissions of 1-4 pages describing deployment experiences. Accepted authors are expected to present a poster during the workshop. With consent, papers and posters will be published on the workshop website. Submissions should follow the HRI 2026 Late-Breaking Reports format and be submitted via EasyChair. For further information, please visit: https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/failfowardhri2026 We look forward to your contributions and to collectively advancing real-world HRI by learning from failure. Best regards, Ana Kirschbaum on behalf of the workshop organizers ________________________________ Dr. Ana Kirschbaum Research Group Leader for Sociotechnical A.I. Research Associate at Cologne Cobots Lab Faculty of Process Engineering / Institute of Product Development and Engineering Design 📧 ana.kirschbaum@th-koeln.de <mailto:ana.kirschbaum@th-koeln.de> 📞 +49 221-8275-4238 📍Betzdorferstraße 2, 50679 Cologne 💻 Zoom: Meeting-ID: 832 073 2634; Code: 759489