ARIS: Agentic and Relationship Intelligence System for Social Robots

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Autori principali: Datta, Stavya, Ke, Fucai, Tian, Leimin, Rezatofighi, Hamid
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Datta, Stavya
Ke, Fucai
Tian, Leimin
Rezatofighi, Hamid
author_facet Datta, Stavya
Ke, Fucai
Tian, Leimin
Rezatofighi, Hamid
contents Foundational models have advanced social robotics, enabling richer perception and communicative interaction with users. However, current systems still struggle with multi-turn engagement, social-relationship reasoning, and contextually grounded dialogue at scale. We present ARIS (Agentic and Relationship Intelligence System), an agentic AI framework that unifies multimodal reasoning, a graph-based Social World Model, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) within a single modular architecture for social robots. We evaluate ARIS with the Pepper robot in a robot-mediated dyadic conversational setting, comparing it against a large language model baseline. A user study (N=23) shows that ARIS yields significantly higher perceived intelligence, animacy, anthropomorphism, and likeability. Our contributions are threefold: (1)~a Social World Model that explicitly maps and updates social relationships between users through a knowledge graph, enabling social reasoning and re-identification across encounters; (2)~an efficient RAG-based conversational pipeline that maintains bounded latency as dialogue histories grow to thousands of exchanges while preserving response relevance; and (3)~system integration and empirical validation of these components within a modular agentic architecture that coordinates speech, vision, and physical action through structured APIs. The implementation of ARIS will be released as open source upon publication.
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Datta, Stavya
Ke, Fucai
Tian, Leimin
Rezatofighi, Hamid
Robotics
Foundational models have advanced social robotics, enabling richer perception and communicative interaction with users. However, current systems still struggle with multi-turn engagement, social-relationship reasoning, and contextually grounded dialogue at scale. We present ARIS (Agentic and Relationship Intelligence System), an agentic AI framework that unifies multimodal reasoning, a graph-based Social World Model, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) within a single modular architecture for social robots. We evaluate ARIS with the Pepper robot in a robot-mediated dyadic conversational setting, comparing it against a large language model baseline. A user study (N=23) shows that ARIS yields significantly higher perceived intelligence, animacy, anthropomorphism, and likeability. Our contributions are threefold: (1)~a Social World Model that explicitly maps and updates social relationships between users through a knowledge graph, enabling social reasoning and re-identification across encounters; (2)~an efficient RAG-based conversational pipeline that maintains bounded latency as dialogue histories grow to thousands of exchanges while preserving response relevance; and (3)~system integration and empirical validation of these components within a modular agentic architecture that coordinates speech, vision, and physical action through structured APIs. The implementation of ARIS will be released as open source upon publication.
title ARIS: Agentic and Relationship Intelligence System for Social Robots
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00943