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
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09 Dec 2024 | COMMITTEE, SUMMER SCHOOL, ORGANIZATION,
Co-organizer of the Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics (LACORO 2024) to be held in Rancagua, Chile between the 9th and the 13th of December 2024.
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).
05 Apr 2024 | RESEARCH, IMPACT,
I am glad to see our article listed among the Top 10 Downloaded Articles 2023 of the Autonomous Robots Journal from Springer Nature. I want to thank Sibel, Josip, and Lorenzo for the excellent teamwork.
Navarro-Guerrero, N., Toprak, S., Josifovski, J., & Jamone, L. (2023). Visuo-Haptic Object Perception for Robots: An Overview. Autonomous Robots, 47(4), 377–403. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-023-10091-y
25 Jan 2024 | OUTREACH, TALK, SEMINAR,
I co-hosted a seminar for the Naturkundliche Vereinigung Langenhagen e.V. (NVL) about “Künstliche Intelligenz und aktueller Forschungsstand im Forschungszentrum L3S Hannover”.
27 Jun 2023 | PROGRAM COMMITTEE, COMMITTEE, TECHNICAL COMMITTEE, WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE,
Member of the program/technical committee of the 2nd International Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognition for Social Robots (SentiRobots) held on the Island of Mauritius, Mauritius, between the 27th and 30th of June 2023. Co-located with the 19th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE).