Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero

Diversity and Inclusion Co-Chair: IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2026)

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Diversity and Inclusion Co-Chair at the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2026), which will be held in Kyoto, Japan, between September 15^th and 18^th, 2026.

NVIDIA Academic Grant Program

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We've been awarded two RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Editions and two NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin™ Developer Kits by the Robotics and Edge AI track of the NVIDIA Academic Grant Program. This hardware will support our ongoing project on tactile perception and mobile robots. Stay tuned for more updates.

We thank NVIDIA for their support.

Co-organizer: Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics (LACORO 2025)

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Co-organizer of the Latin American Summer School on Robotics (LACORO 2025) to be held in Rancagua, Chile between the 9^th and the 13^th of December 2025.

Participation: NII Shonan Meeting: Next Generation Cognitive Robotics

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Participant in the NII Shonan Meeting NO.220: “Next Generation Cognitive Robotics: Nurturing Embodied Intelligence for a Symbiotic Future with Humans and AI.” The NII Shonan Meetings follow the style of the Dagstuhl Seminars and are managed by the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan.

The seminar will be held at the Shonan Village Center in Japan between the 17^th to the 20^th of November 2025. For more information on the workshop, click here.

The meeting is organized by: Tetsunari Inamura from Tamagawa University, Tadahiro Taniguchi from Kyoto University, Alessandra Sciutti from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, and Lorenzo Jamone from the University College London.

NII Shonan Meeting is a series of informatics seminars managed by NII. It aims to promote informatics research internationally. Following the style of the well-known Dagstuhl Seminars, each meeting is organized by established researchers in their field. Attendance is by invitation only.

The NII Shonan Meeting provides a venue for leading scientists and promising young researchers to exchange knowledge, discuss their research findings, and explore cutting-edge topics.

Research Visit at the Cognitive Developmental Robotics Lab, The University of Tokyo

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I would like to sincerely thank Prof. Yukie Nagai and the Cognitive Developmental Robotics Lab at the International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo, for the warm hospitality and the inspiring research visit. During my stay, I had the opportunity to engage in insightful discussions with lab members and to exchange ideas on current challenges and future directions in tactile perception, embodied robot learning, human-robot interaction, and cognitive development.

I also had the chance to present my research at the Friday seminar on 14 November 2025, where I presented our work on tactile perception, including the projects ACROSS, Vibrosense, and ROMEO, in the presentation titled “Towards Dexterous Manipulation: From Teleoperation to Autonomous Learning.”

Participation: 15th Brazilian-German Frontiers of Science and Technology (BRAGFOST) Symposium

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Participant in the 15^th Brazilian-German Frontiers of Science and Technology (BRAGFOST) Symposium funded by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

The Symposium will be held at Mannheim, Germany between the 6^th to the 9^th of November 2025. For more information on the workshop, click here.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation regularly convenes bi- and tri-national Frontiers of Research Symposia in cooperation with its partner organizations in Brazil, China, Japan, India, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.

The Frontiers of Research Symposia provide outstanding young researchers from Germany and partner countries with a platform for an international and interdisciplinary knowledge exchange. The participating researchers establish or strengthen connections with other future thought leaders, often pioneering innovative fields for collaboration. Participants question and expand the boundaries of their respective disciplines – for example, through cross-disciplinary discussions of current advancements, innovative research, and emerging opportunities. The German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space supports the Frontiers of Research program.

Up to 60 researchers from engineering and the applied natural sciences meet every year to challenge the boundaries of their fields. Nominated and funded by CAPES and the Humboldt Foundation, they establish new collaborations across their disciplines.

Research visit at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I am grateful for the opportunity to spend a one-week research visit at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be’er Sheva, Israel, from 24th to 30th October 2025. Hosted by Prof. Ilana Nisky within the vibrant research environment of her lab, this visit was generously funded by the International Senior Academic Faculty Visits Program at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

During my stay, I engaged in stimulating discussions with several faculty members and researchers, exploring shared interests in haptics, tactile perception, and human–robot interaction. These exchanges provided valuable feedback on ongoing work and opened up promising avenues for future collaboration. In addition to the academic program, there was also time for informal conversations and leisure activities in and around Be’er Sheva, which made the visit both scientifically productive and personally enriching.

As part of the visit, I had the honor to present our current research on tactile perception, including results from the ACROSS, ROMEO, and Vibrosense projects, at the ABC Robotics Seminar Series at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev on the 27th of October 2025. In my talk, entitled “Towards Dexterous Manipulation: From Teleoperation to Autonomous Learning”, I discussed how advanced tactile sensing and learning-based methods can support more robust and adaptive manipulation skills in robots. For more information on the ABC Robotics Seminar Series, please visit the official seminar page on the Ben-Gurion University website.

I would like to express my sincere thanks to Prof. Ilana Nisky for the kind invitation and warm hospitality, to all colleagues at Ben-Gurion University for the inspiring conversations, and to the International Senior Academic Faculty Visits Program for making this visit possible. I am very much looking forward to continuing our collaboration in the future.

Academic Workshop From Body to Mind

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I presented our current research on Tactile Perception at the Academic Workshop From Body to Mind held at the Italian Institute of Technology – CHT Center, Genoa, between the 21^st and the 23^rd of October 2025. For more information on the workshop, click here.

The talked was titled: Towards Dexterous Manipulation: From Teleoperation to Autonomous Learning. Thank you to the local organizers and all my collaborators who made this possible.

Journal Track Chair: IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2025)

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Journal Track Chair at the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2025) to be held in Prague, the Czech Republic, 16^th to 19^th Sep. 2025.

„ti“ 1+2/2025: In Gesellschaft mit KI – Risiken und Chancen

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Our research on tactile perception for robots has been featured in the “ti-Magazin,” published by the Arbeitskreis der niedersächsischen Hochschultransferstellen. Our article, titled “Mit Gefühl – taktile Sensoren für Roboterhand,” can be found on page 32 of the printed magazin.

Explore the whole issue online (in German) here: ti-Magazin 1/2 2025.