Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
Group Leader
Leibniz Universität Hannover
L3S Research Center
Appelstrasse 4
30167 Hannover, Germany
nicolas.navarro@l3s.de
https://www.l3s.de/
I am a robotics and artificial intelligence researcher with a passion for applied robotics and automation research. I am particularly interested in academic/industrial partnerships for the development of knowledge-intensive R&D solutions for socially relevant challenges including welfare, agriculture, disaster relief and humanitarian demining.
I have always advocated for a holistic development of robots, i.e. considering both hardware, software alike, which I believe perfectly aligns with the concepts of embodied and developmental robotics. Further, I also believe that robotic development should be human-centric fully embracing its impact on society and the environment. Taking all of this into consideration, I regard robotics a highly multidisciplinary endeavour which requires not only engineers from different disciplines but also natural sciences and humanities.
My list of research interests is diverse; however, I believe that they are well aligned towards this holistic view of robot development for socially relevant challenges. My most direct research interests include
- Cognitive Systems
- Bio-inspired Perceptual Systems & Signal Processing
- Neurorobotics
- Autonomous and Intelligent Systems
- Service Robots
Recent Projects
Latest Publications
View my publications sorted by category, chronologically*, or alternatively, in 
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ACROSS: A Deformation-Based Cross-Modal Representation for Robotic Tactile Perception
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). pp. 1-8, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 2025
Zai El Amri, Wadhah; Kuhlmann, Malte; Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
doi, url, ©2024 The Authors., PDF, bibtex, key: ZaiElAmri2025DeformationBased, supplementary material,
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Continual Domain Randomization
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). pp. 4965-4972, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Oct 2024
Josifovski, Josip; Auddy, Sayantan; Malmir, Mohammadhossein; Piater, Justus; Knoll, Alois; Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
doi, url, ©2024 The Authors., PDF, bibtex, key: Josifovski2024Continual, supplementary material, ISSN: 2153-0866
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Transferring Tactile Data Across Sensors
40th Anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA@40). pp. 1540-1542, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Sep 2024
Zai El Amri, Wadhah; Kuhlmann, Malte; Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
doi, url, ©2024 The Authors., PDF, bibtex, key: ZaiElAmri2024Transferring,
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Optimizing BioTac Simulation for Realistic Tactile Perception
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). pp. 1-8, Yokohama, Japan, Jul 2024
Zai El Amri, Wadhah; Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
doi, url, ©2024 The Authors., PDF, bibtex, key: ZaiElAmri2024Optimizing, supplementary material, source code, ISSN: 2161-4407
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A Biomimetic Fingerprint for Robotic Tactile Sensing
International Symposium on Robotics (ISR Europe). pp. 112-118, Stuttgart, Germany, Sep 2023
Juiña Quilachamín, Oscar Alberto; Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
doi, url, ©2023 The Authors., PDF, bibtex, key: JuinaQuilachamin2023Fingerprint, supplementary material,
Latest News
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Co-organizer: Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics (LACORO 2025)
08 Dec 2025 | COMMITTEE, SUMMER SCHOOL, ORGANIZATION,
Co-organizer of the Latin American Summer School on Robotics (LACORO 2025) to be held in Rancagua, Chile between the 8th and the 12th of December 2025.
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Journal Track Chair: IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2025)
16 Sep 2025 | JOURNAL TRACK CHAIR, COMMITTEE, CONFERENCE, ORGANIZATION,
Journal Track Chair at the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2025) to be held in Prague, the Czech Republic, 16th to 19th Sep. 2025.
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Haptic Perception Robots
Springer Nature npj Robotics
30 Apr 2025 | SPECIAL ISSUE, JOURNAL, CALL FOR PAPERS,
Haptic perception robots are systems designed to sense, interpret, and respond to tactile information in a manner similar to human touch, enabling interaction with their physical environment. As the sense of touch becomes increasingly important for autonomous robots, haptic perception is evolving rapidly, enhancing capabilities in areas like object manipulation, human-robot interaction, and performing delicate tasks in unstructured settings. This collection aims to gather cutting-edge research on the technologies and applications driving advancements in haptic perception robots.
For more information on the Special Issue, click here.
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Co-organizer: Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics (LACORO 2024)
09 Dec 2024 | COMMITTEE, SUMMER SCHOOL, ORGANIZATION,
Co-organizer of the Latin American Summer School on Robotics (LACORO 2024) to be held in Rancagua, Chile between the 9th and the 13th of December 2024.
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Program Committee: Workshop on Human-aligned Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Agents and Robots
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
13 May 2024 | PROGRAM COMMITTEE, COMMITTEE, TECHNICAL COMMITTEE, WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE,
Member of the program/technical committee of the Workshop on Human-aligned Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Agents and Robots held in Yokohama, Japan, on 13th of May 2024. Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).