Humans are remarkably adept at navigating complex social environments. We move fluidly through crowds, anticipate the actions of others, and coordinate seamlessly even when faced with ambiguity, unstructured environments, and unwritten social rules. Robots, however, still struggle with these challenges.

The 5th Workshop on Social Robot Navigation: From Humans, to Robots, and to the World explores how navigation can leverage foundational research in human-robot interaction and robotic systems to scale autonomy and make a positive impact for all people. Building on our successful series of workshops at ICRA'22, IROS'23, RSS'24, and ICRA'25 this year's workshop will explore the elements critical to designing social navigation systems that are socially competent, scalable, and deployable in real-world settings. Perspectives from invited speakers and moderated panel discussions will span topics including motion and task planning, human-robot interaction, communication strategies, human-centered evaluation, interactions from individual to crowd dynamics, and—given recent advances in foundation models—how these models can enhance understanding of the world to benefit social navigation. The workshop will also host a benchmark challenge for social robot navigation with the objective of pushing fundamental advances towards deployment and applications leading to real-world impact. We invite researchers to submit short papers and participate in the benchmark challenge, as well as join us for a workshop centered on discussion.