Abstract:  Robotics today is moving beyond fixed environments and into human spaces like homes, restaurants, and hospitals. In these new spaces, robots will necessarily have to interact with people. In some sense, every recent robotics problem is partly a human-robot interaction problem. Thus, the field of HRI can offer insights to the broader robotics community about how to create effective and beneficial robot systems that interact well with people. In this talk, I cover five common assumptions about humans and robots, explain why they fail, and describe how we address them through examples from my own work.