The 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2018, will be held in Nanjing and Tai'an, China, from 27 to 31 of August 2018. This leading forum covers state-of-the-art innovative results, the latest developments cover a wide range of topics related to Robot and Human Interactive Communication.

The theme of the conference is social intelligence in interactive robots. Original contributions including basic findings, multi-disciplinary approaches towards friendly, openand useful robots in practical/real life applications such as healthcare, industry edutainment, etc., are highly encouraged.