Overview
Welcome to my research page! My research focuses on improving the perceptual, learning, cognitive and physical capabilities of robotic systems so that they can assist people in a personalised way. I direct several ongoing research projects at the Personal Robotics Laboratory, as detailed below (this new section is under construction during late April - early May 2021)
Personal Assistive Robotics
For the last 15 years I have been engaged in research towards assistive robots that personalise their assistance towards the individual needs and characteristics of their human users This research has received substantial recognition and support by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), which in 2019 awarded me the RAEng Chair in Emerging Technologies (2019-2029)
Guest Lectures
Invited Keynote Speaker, Third EU CogIII Conference, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2013
Invited Speaker, International Symposium on Face Perception and Recognition 2012, National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Okazaki, Japan, 2012
Plenary Speaker, XIII WORKSHOP OF PHYSICAL AGENTS 2012WAF 2012, University of Santiago De Compostela, Spain, 2012
Keynote Speaker, Symposium on Developmental Robotics, Convergent Science Network, University of Sheffield, UK, 2012
Invited Speaker, Hamlyn Workshop on Assistive Robotics, Royal Geographical Society, 2012
Invited Speaker, Symposium on "Reading Intentions: from children to robots", University of Lund, Sweden, 2012
Plenary Speaker, 12th Conference on "Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems" (TAROS-2011), Sheffield, UK, 2011
Invited Speaker, NSF Workshop on Action, Language, and Neuroinformatics, Los Angeles, 2011, 2011
Invited Speaker, AI-2010 Workshop on Bioinspired and Bioplausible Cognitive Robots, University of Cambridge, 2010
Keynote Speaker, 2012 Joint Research Conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2010
Invited Speaker, IET Workshop on Humanoid Robots, IET London, 2010
Invited Speaker, IEEE International Conference on Humanoids - Workshop on Developmental Psychology Contributions to Cooperative Human Robot Interaction,, Paris, 2009
Invited Speaker, 2009 Humanoids at Home Colloquium, University of Karlsruke, 2009
Invited Speaker, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation – Workshop on Approaches to Sensorimotor Learning on Humanoid Robots,, Kobe, Japan, 2009
Invited Speaker, EPSRC AI and Non-player characters workshop, University of Essex, 2008
Research Staff
Chatzis,S
Chinellato,E
Coninx,A
Ognibene,D
Ros,R
Takacs,B
Research Student Supervision
Butler,S
Claassens,J
Dearden,A
Fernandes-Martins,M
Gao,Y
Georgiou,T
Jiang,J
Johnson,M
Korkinoff,D
Lee,K
Sarabia,M
Simmons,G
Soh,H
Veskos,P
Wu,Y