News

2026

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  Program Co-Chair: 1ª Edición Jornadas Chilenas de Robótica e IA

  03 Dec 2026 | PROGRAM CO-CHAIR, COMMITTEE, CONFERENCE, ORGANIZATION, COMITÉ, CONFERENCIA, ORGANIZACIÓN,

  Program Co-Chair at the 1ª Edición Jornadas Chilenas de Robótica e IA, a forum bringing together researchers, practitioners, and students working on robotics and artificial intelligence in Chile and beyond.

  Coordinador del Programa de la 1ª Edición Jornadas Chilenas de Robótica e IA, un espacio que reúne a investigadores, profesionales y estudiantes que trabajan en robótica e inteligencia artificial en Chile y más allá.

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  Program Committee: International Scientific and Practical Conference on Applied Information Systems and Technologies in the Digital Society (AISTDS)

  01 Oct 2026 | PROGRAM COMMITTEE, COMMITTEE, CONFERENCE, ORGANIZATION,

  I will be supporting the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Applied Information Systems and Technologies in the Digital Society” (AISTDS) as a member of the program committee. The conference is organized by the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and held online via Zoom on October 1, 2026.

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

  16 Sep 2026 | DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION CHAIR, COMMITTEE, CONFERENCE, ORGANIZATION,

  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.

2025

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  NVIDIA Academic Grant Program​

  Robotics and Edge AI

  12 Dec 2025 | AWARDS, GRANTS,

  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.

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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 9^th and the 13^th of December 2025.

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  Participation: NII Shonan Meeting: Next Generation Cognitive Robotics

  17 Nov 2025 | SEMINAR, OUTREACH, PARTICIPANT,

  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.

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

  14 Nov 2025 | VISITING RESEARCHER, OUTREACH, NETWORKING, TALK,

  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.

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

  06 Nov 2025 | SEMINAR, OUTREACH, PARTICIPANT,

  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.

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  Research visit at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

  27 Oct 2025 | VISITING RESEARCHER, OUTREACH, NETWORKING,

  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.

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  Academic Workshop From Body to Mind

  The Role of Embodiment in Human Thought and Learning

  22 Oct 2025 | TALK, SEMINAR, OUTREACH, PARTICIPANT,

  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.

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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, 16^th to 19^th Sep. 2025.

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

  Mit Gefühl — taktile Sensoren für Roboterhand

  30 Jun 2025 | PRESS, MEDIA, INTERVIEW, OUTREACH,

  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.

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  Vibrosense Showcased at KnowledgeMove 2025 in Hannover

  20 Jun 2025 | OUTREACH, PRESENTATION, PARTICIPANT,

  The inaugural KnowledgeMove conference, organized by hannoverimpuls in cooperation with Leibniz Universität Hannover and Hochschule Hannover, successfully brought together around 200 participants from industry, academia, startups, and policy under the theme “From Knowledge to Impact.”

  Representing our research team, Wadhah Zai El Amri exhibited, including live demos, recent advances in tactile perception, highlighting results from the Vibrosense project. The event provided an excellent platform to exchange ideas on technology translation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the role of startups in advancing intelligent, sensor-based systems for the next generation of human–robot interaction.

  For more information please check the event webpage.

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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.

2024

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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 9^th and the 13^th of December 2024.

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  DIGIT CFP through AI Research at Meta

  17 May 2024 | AWARDS, GRANTS,

  We've just received the five fully assembled DIGIT sensors we were awarded by AI at Meta, in partnership with GelSight Inc. The DIGIT sensor is a high-resolution vision-based tactile sensor. With this program, AI at Meta aims to provide a low-cost yet reliable and readily available hardware platform for touch sensing, enable scientific breakthroughs in real-world applications (e.g., robotics), encourage research in touch as a sensor modality and tactile sensors, and develop reusable components and tools.

  More details about the sensor here https://digit.ml/

  We thank AI at Meta and GelSight for the support.

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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 13^th of May 2024. Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

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  Autonomous Robots - Top 10 Downloaded Articles 2023

  05 Apr 2024 | AWARD, 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

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  Seminar: Naturkundliche Vereinigung Langenhagen e.V. (NVL)

  Hanover, Germany

  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”.

2023

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  Program Committee: 2nd International Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognition for Social Robots (SentiRobots)

  19th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE)

  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 27^th and 30^th of June 2023. Co-located with the 19^th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE).

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  Co-Organizer: IJCNN Special Session on Human-in-the-loop Algorithms and System Designs

  International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)

  18 Jun 2023 | PROGRAM COMMITTEE, COMMITTEE, TECHNICAL COMMITTEE, SPECIAL SESSION, WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE,

  Co-organizer of the Special Session on Human-in-the-loop Algorithms and System Designs held at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, Queensland, Australia, between the 18^th and 23rd^th of June 2023. Co-located with the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN).

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  Program Committee: Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) Workshop

  International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)

  29 May 2023 | PROGRAM COMMITTEE, COMMITTEE, TECHNICAL COMMITTEE, WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE,

  Member of the program/technical committee of the Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) Workshop held in London, UK between the 29^th and 30^th of May 2023. Co-located with the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS).

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  Talk: 12th Robotics Kongress – Safety, Security und Künstliche Intelligenz

  Hanover, Germany

  08 Feb 2023 | OUTREACH, TALK, SEMINAR,

  I will give a guest talk on “Designing Safer Robotic Systems” at the 12th Robotics Kongress – Safety, Security und Künstliche Intelligenz at the Deutsche Messe Technology Academy, Hanover, Germany.

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  Talk: Bio Bio AI Robotics Summit

  Concepción, Chile

  09 Jan 2023 | OUTREACH, TALK, SEMINAR,

  I will give a guest talk on “Designing Social Robots” at the Bio Bio AI Robotics Summit at the Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Concepción, Chile.

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  Organizer: Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics (LACORO 2023)

  03 Jan 2023 | COMMITTEE, SUMMER SCHOOL, ORGANIZATION,

  Organizer of the Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics (LACORO 2023) to be held in Santiago, Chile between the 3^rd and the 6^th of January 2023.

2022

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  Call for Papers: Special Issue on Cognitive Inspired Aspects of Robot Learning

  Frontiers in Neurorobotics

  20 Oct 2022 | SPECIAL ISSUE, JOURNAL, CALL FOR PAPERS,

  This Research Topic focuses on the state-of-the-art in cognitive-inspired aspects of robot learning. It is an associated activity of the Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics (LACORO). This Research Topic welcomes novel contributions to new theoretical methods and applications that align with the topics covered in LACORO.

  The Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics (LACORO) is an international event that aims at making cutting-edge knowledge on Artificial Intelligence for Robotics Applications accessible to everyone, especially in the Southern Hemisphere. Moreover, LACORO wishes to foster intercultural student collaboration within and outside the Americas.

  LACORO primarily targets later-year Engineering Students, MSc students, Ph.D. Students, Academics, and Professionals. Although LACORO will be organized in Latin America, LACORO is open to participants worldwide. We also look forward to building a sustainable community of students, academics, and professionals in Artificial Intelligence for Robotics, particularly Cognitive Inspired Aspects of AI.

  For more information on the Special Issue, click here.

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  Bridge Chair: IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2022)

  12 Sep 2022 | BRIDGE CHAIR, COMMITTEE, CONFERENCE, ORGANIZATION,

  Bridge Chair and Associate Editor at the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2022) to be held in London, UK, 12^th to 15^th Sep. 2022.

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  Program Committee: 1st International Workshop on Ubicomp Environments and Proxemic Applications (UbicProxemics)

  18th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE)

  20 Jun 2022 | PROGRAM COMMITTEE, COMMITTEE, TECHNICAL COMMITTEE, WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE,

  Member of the program/technical committee of the 1st International Workshop on Ubicomp Environments and Proxemic Applications (UbicProxemics) held in Biarritz, France between the 20^th and 23^rd of June 2022. Co-located with the 18^th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE).

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  Program Committee: 1st International Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognition for Social Robots (SentiRobots)

  18th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE)

  20 Jun 2022 | PROGRAM COMMITTEE, COMMITTEE, TECHNICAL COMMITTEE, WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE,

  Member of the program/technical committee of the 1st International Workshop on Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognition for Social Robots (SentiRobots) held in Biarritz, France between the 20^th and 23^rd of June 2022. Co-located with the 18^th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE).

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  Program Committee: Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) Workshop

  International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)

  09 May 2022 | PROGRAM COMMITTEE, COMMITTEE, TECHNICAL COMMITTEE, WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE,

  Member of the program/technical committee of the Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) Workshop held in Auckland, New Zealand between the 9^th and 10^th of May 2022. Co-located with the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS).

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  Program Committee: 4th International Symposium on Intelligent Computing Systems (ISICS)

  23 Mar 2022 | PROGRAM COMMITTEE, COMMITTEE, TECHNICAL COMMITTEE, SYMPOSIUM, CONFERENCE,

  Member of the program/technical committee of the 4^th International Symposium on Intelligent Computing Systems (ISICS) held in Santiago, Chile between the 23^rd and 25^th of March 2022.

2021

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  Editorial Board: Joined the Editorial Board of the Computational Intelligence in Robotics Section

  Frontiers in Robotics and AI

  01 Dec 2021 | ACADEMIC MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP, PEER ESTEEM INDICATORS, OUTREACH, EDITORIAL BOARD,

  I joined the Editorial Board of the Computational Intelligence in Robotics Section at the Frontiers in Robotics and AI journal as Review Editor.

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  Project Leader M-RoCK project

  Human-Machine Interaction Modeling for Continuous Improvement of Robot Behavior

  01 Nov 2021 | ACADEMIC MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP,

  I was appointed as Project Leader for the M-RoCK project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

  For more information about the project and activities, please visit this webpage.

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  Session Chair: General Principles of Development and Learning Session at ICDL-EpiRob 2021

  IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2021)

  25 Aug 2021 | SESSION CHAIR, SESSION, CONFERENCE,

  Chair of the General Principles of Development and Learning Session at the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) held in Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 25^th Aug. 2021.

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  Publicity Chair: IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (IEEE ICDL 2021)

  23 Aug 2021 | PUBLICITY CO-CHAIR, COMMITTEE, CONFERENCE, ORGANIZATION,

  I will serve as Publicity Co-Chair of the 10^th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2021) held in Beijing, China between the 23^rd and 26^th of August 2021.

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  Call for Papers: Special Issue on Emerging Topics on Development and Learning

  IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems

  15 Jan 2021 | SPECIAL ISSUE, JOURNAL, CALL FOR PAPERS,

  This special issue will include state-of-the-art research on emerging topics on development and learning in natural and artificial systems. In addition to new submissions, papers presented at ICDL-EpiRob 2020 will be invited to submit extended versions to the special issue. All submissions, including those that are based on ICDL-EpiRob 2020 papers, will be reviewed as regular TCDS papers.

  This special issue has a focus on development and learning from a multidisciplinary perspective gathering researchers from computer science, robotics, psychology, and developmental studies. We invite researchers to share knowledge and research on how humans and animals develop sensing, reasoning and actions, and how to exploit robots as research tools to test models of development and learning. We expect the submitted contributions emphasize the interaction with social and physical environments and how cognitive and developmental capabilities can be transferred to computing systems and robotics. This approach goes hand in hand with the goals of both understanding human and animal development and applying this knowledge to improve future intelligent technology, including for robots that will be in close interaction with humans.

  For more information on the Special Issue, click here.

2020

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  Program and Finance Co-Chair: Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob 2020)

  28 Oct 2020 | PROGRAM AND FINANCE CO-CHAIR, COMMITTEE, CONFERENCE, ORGANIZATION,

  I will serve as Program and Finance Co-Chair of the 10^th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob 2020) held in Valparaiso, Chile between the 26^th and 30^th of October 2020.

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  Talk: Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

  University of Groningen, the Netherlands

  01 Oct 2020 | OUTREACH, TALK, SEMINAR,

  I will give a guest talk on “The Role of Cognitive-Inspired Machine Learning in Autonomous Assistive Systems” at the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

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  Editorial Board: Joined the Editorial Board of the Humanoid Robotics Section

  Frontiers in Robotics and AI

  21 Sep 2020 | ACADEMIC MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP, PEER ESTEEM INDICATORS, OUTREACH, EDITORIAL BOARD,

  I joined the Editorial Board of the Humanoid Robotics Section at the Frontiers in Robotics and AI journal as Review Editor.

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  Organizer: Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics (LACORO 2020)

  01 Sep 2020 | COMMITTEE, SUMMER SCHOOL, ORGANIZATION,

  Funder and Organizer of the Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics (LACORO 2020). The first edition was held in Valparaiso, Chile between the 1^st and the 4^th of September 2020.

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  Associate Editor: Joined the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS)

  25 Mar 2020 | ACADEMIC MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP, PEER ESTEEM INDICATORS, OUTREACH, EDITORIAL BOARD,

  Joined the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS) as an Associate Editor.

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  Vice-Chair of the IEEE CDSTC

  IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (CDSTC)

  10 Mar 2020 | ACADEMIC MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP, PEER ESTEEM INDICATORS, OUTREACH,

  I was appointed as Vice-Chair of Conference of the IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (CDSTC) for the 2020 period.

  For more information on the IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (CDSTC) and activities, please visit this webpage.

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  Talk: Computational Intelligence and Applications Research Group (CIA)

  Nottingham Trent University, UK

  22 Jan 2020 | OUTREACH, TALK, SEMINAR,

  I will give a guest talk at the Computational Intelligence and Applications Research Group (CIA) at the School of Science and Technology at Nottingham Trent University.

2019

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  Publicity Chair: IEEE RAS International Summer School on Deep Learning for Robot Vision

  09 Dec 2019 | PUBLICITY CHAIR, COMMITTEE, SYMPOSIUM, WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE,

  I will serve as Publicity Chair of the IEEE RAS International Summer School on Deep Learning for Robot Vision held in Santiago & Rancagua, Chile between the 9^th and 13^th of December 2019.

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  Program Committee: IEEE Symposium on Domestic Robotics

  IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI)

  06 Dec 2019 | PROGRAM COMMITTEE, COMMITTEE, SYMPOSIUM, WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE,

  Member of the program committee of the IEEE Symposium on Domestic Robotics (IEEE DR) held in Xiamen, China between the 6^th and 9^th of December 2019.

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  Talk: GT8 Robotics and Neuroscience Workshop

  26 Nov 2019 | OUTREACH, TALK, WORKSHOP,

  I will give a talk at the GT8 Robotics and Neuroscience Workshop. The workshop was held in Bordeaux, France on the 26^th of November 2019. For more information about this event please visit this link.

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  Organizer and Speaker: AU Smart Manufacturing Day

  28 Oct 2019 | ORGANIZATION, SPEAKER, WORKSHOP, OUTREACH,

  In this event, industry leaders across Denmark and researchers at Aarhus University will present the latest technological innovations and cutting-edge research results from different aspects of manufacturing. You will also have the opportunity to explore collaborations with other industries and researchers at Aarhus University.

  This year’s AU Smart Manufacturing Day will also showcase the recently built AU Makerspace. The AU Makerspace is a state-of-the-art collaborative fabrication space aiming to generate real-world research impact through engagement with Danish industry while preparing students for the growing high-tech skilled job market. We also invite interested industry partners to join us for a discussion on ideas and future initiatives that can help us build a strong industry-academic partnership within the AU Makerspace.

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  Editorial Board: Joined the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Neurorobotics

  02 Oct 2019 | ACADEMIC MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP, PEER ESTEEM INDICATORS, OUTREACH, EDITORIAL BOARD,

  Joined the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Neurorobotics as Review Editor.

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  Session Chair: Sensorimotor Development Session at ICDL-EpiRob 2019

  Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob 2019)

  20 Aug 2019 | SESSION CHAIR, SESSION, CONFERENCE,

  Chair of the Sensorimotor Development Session at the Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob) held in Oslo, Norway, 20^th Aug. 2019.

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  Organizer: ICDL-EpiRob Workshop on Naturalistic Non-Verbal and Affective Human-Robot Interactions

  Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob 2019)

  19 Aug 2019 | ORGANIZATION, CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOP,

  This full-day workshop will investigate the sensorimotor and affective mechanisms that underlie human-robot interaction. Non-verbal and affective cues and expressions used to foster cooperation, mutual understanding and signal trustworthiness are manifested by humans all the time. If these cues are not appropriately reciprocated, however, the interaction can be negatively impacted. Moreover, inappropriate reciprocation, or lack thereof, may be the result of misperception and or non-timely reactions. Failure to adequately account for biologically plausible perceptual and temporal facets of interactions may detract from the quality of human-robot interaction and hinder progress in the field of social robotics more generally. For more information on the Workshop, click here.

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  Talk: Fourth International Workshop on Intrinsically Motivated Open-Ended Learning

  01 Jul 2019 | OUTREACH, TALK, WORKSHOP,

  I will give a talk at the Fourth International Workshop on Intrinsically-Motivated Open-ended Learning (IMOL2019). This year the workshop will be preceded by a Summer School of the European FET project GOAL-Robots. The workshop was held at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) on the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd of July 2019. For more information about this event please visit this link.

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  Talk: Institut für Neuroinformatik (INI) Colloquium

  22 May 2019 | OUTREACH, TALK, WORKSHOP,

  I will give a talk at the Institut für Neuroinformatik (INI) Colloquium hosted by Prof. Dr. Gregor Schöner on the 22^nd of May 2019. For more information about this event please visit this link.

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  Talk: Wallenberg Symposium on Affective and Developmental Processes in Cognitive and Autonomous Systems

  Augmenting Deep Learning using Neural Dynamics and Predictive Coding

  06 May 2019 | OUTREACH, TALK, WORKSHOP, SYMPOSIUM,

  I will give a talk at the Wallenberg Symposium on Affective and Developmental Processes in Cognitive and Autonomous Systems – Augmenting Deep Learning using Neural Dynamics and Predictive Coding. The Symposium was held at the Lindholmen Science Park, Gothenburg, Sweden on the 6^th and 7^th of May 2019. For more information about this event please visit this link.

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  Guest Lecture: Reinforcement Learning

  Department of Engineering at Aarhus University, Denmark

  01 May 2019 | GUEST LECTURE, OUTREACH, TEACHING,

  Guest Lecture at the Computer Vision and Machine Learning course hosted at the Section of Electrical and Computer, Department of Engineering at Aarhus University, Denmark, on the 1^st of May 2019.

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  Visiting the UChile Robotics Lab

  Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

  11 Mar 2019 | VISIT, VISITING RESEARCHER, OUTREACH,

  I visited the Robotics Laboratory of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, between the 11^th and 18^th of March 2019.

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  Guest Lecture: Designing Social Robots

  Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University, Denmark

  26 Feb 2019 | GUEST LECTURE, OUTREACH, TEACHING,

  I held a Guest Lecture at the Innovation Project course hosted at the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University, Denmark, on the 26^th of February 2019.

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  Membership: IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (CDSTC)

  15 Jan 2019 | MEMBERSHIP, PEER ESTEEM INDICATORS, OUTREACH,

  I joined the IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (CDSTC) for the 2019 term. For more information about the mission and activities of the Technical Committee, please visit this link.

2018

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  Guest Lecture: Designing Social Robots

  Division of Cognition and Communication, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

  10 Dec 2018 | GUEST LECTURE, OUTREACH, TEACHING,

  I held a Guest Lecture at the Affective Interaction & Robotics (TIG103) course hosted at the Division of Cognition and Communication, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, on the 10^th of December 2018.

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  Membership: Task Force on Developmental Psychology

  IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (CDSTC)

  05 Nov 2018 | MEMBERSHIP, PEER ESTEEM INDICATORS, OUTREACH,

  I joined the Task Force on Developmental Psychology of the IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (CDSTC) for the 2018 term. For more information on the Task Force activities, please visit this webpage.

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  Call for Papers: Special Issue on Continual Unsupervised Sensorimotor Learning

  IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems

  31 Aug 2018 | SPECIAL ISSUE, JOURNAL, CALL FOR PAPERS,

  This special issue aims to report state-of-the-art approaches and recent advances on Continual Unsupervised Sensorimotor Learning with a cross-disciplinary perspective. For more information on the Special Issue, click here.

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  Call for Papers: Workshop on Continual Unsupervised Sensorimotor Learning

  Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob)

  17 Jul 2018 | ORGANIZATION, CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE,

  In this workshop we discussed the developmental processes involved in the emergence of representations of action and perception in humans and artificial agents in continual learning. These processes include action-perception cycle, active perception, continual sensory-motor learning, environmental-driven scaffolding, and intrinsic motivation. For more information on the Workshop, click here.

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  Program Committee: Workshop on Intelligent Assistive Computing

  Bi-Annual IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI)

  11 Jul 2018 | PROGRAM COMMITTEE, CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE,

  Member of the program committee of the Workshop on Intelligent Assistive Computing, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 11^th July 2018.

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  Talk: Akademiet for Talentfuld Unge (ATU)

  Sommercamp 2018

  04 Jul 2018 | OUTREACH, TALK,

  On Wednesday 4^th of July 2018, I held two talks on Next Generation Social Robots at the Sommercamp 2018 of the ‘Akademiet for Talentfuld Unge’ (ATU) – Region of Central Jutland. Where high-school students will have the opportunity to learn about current research on the field. For more information about this event please visit this link.

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  Talk: Workshop on Social Robotics: Social Robotics: New Paths to Discovering What Matters in a Human Life

  Matchpoints seminar: The Welfare State: New solutions to Old Problems?

  26 May 2018 | WORKSHOP, OUTREACH, TALK,

  The AU Social Robotics Lab and the Research Programme Human Futures offer a workshop that will bring the complex issues of social robotics into focus, by engaging our cultural and ethical imagination with illustrations, challenging questions, and performance art. The workshop was held in Aarhus, Denmark, 26^th May 2018. For more information on the seminar, click here.

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  Chair: Task Force on Action and Perception

  IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (CDSTC)

  11 May 2018 | ACADEMIC MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP, PEER ESTEEM INDICATORS, OUTREACH,

  Together with Sao Mai Nguyen., I am charing the Task Force Action and Perception of the IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (CDSTC).

  For more information on the Task Force activities, please visit this webpage.

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  Interview: Next Generation Social Robots

  Featured at the AU Department of Engineering Profile 2018

  11 Apr 2018 | PRESS, INTERVIEW, OUTREACH,

  Social robots are designed to engage humans in social interactions by presenting themselves—in appearance or behaviour—as intelligent social agents. However, the goal of building robots to participate in the space of human interaction raises new technological, empirical and normative questions.

  Read online here.

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  Grant: Business-Oriented Activities

  Faculty of Science and Technology at Aarhus University

  10 Feb 2018 | GRANT, FUNDING,

  Micro-grant from the University’s Strategic Funds (USM) and the Aarhus University Research Fund (AUFF) to support business-related events held in 2018. This grant was be used to facilitate the collaboration between the AU Social Robotics Lab at Aarhus University and the Glyptoteket in Copenhagen.

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  Membership: IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (CDSTC)

  01 Feb 2018 | MEMBERSHIP, PEER ESTEEM INDICATORS, OUTREACH,

  I joined the IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (CDSTC) for the 2018 term. For more information about the mission and activities of the Technical Committee, please visit this link.

2017

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  Membership: Centro de Innovación y Robótica

  NGO: Robotic and Technological Innovation in Chile

  15 Dec 2017 | MEMBERSHIP, PEER ESTEEM INDICATORS, OUTREACH,

  Became Honorary Member of the NGO Centro de Innovación y Robótica, Chile. For more information about the mission and activities of the Centro de Innovación y Robótica please visit this link.

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  Membership: AU Social Robotics Lab

  31 Oct 2017 | MEMBERSHIP, OUTREACH,

  Founding member and coordinator of the multidisciplinary AU Social Robotics Lab at Aarhus University. For more information about the mission and activities of the lab, please visit this link.

2016

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  Talk: 2nd Congress on Robotics and Neuroscience (CRoNe)

  27 Oct 2016 | CONFERENCE, OUTREACH, TALK,

  I was an invited speaker at the 2^nd Congress on Robotics and Neuroscience (CRoNe). The Congress was held in Valparaiso, Chile between the 27^th – 29^th October 2016.

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  Membership: IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive Robotics

  01 Jun 2016 | MEMBERSHIP, PEER ESTEEM INDICATORS, OUTREACH,

  I joined the IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive Robotics. For more information about the mission and activities of the Technical Committee, please visit this link.

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  Participation: Lorentz Center Workshop on Emotions as Feedback Signals

  18 Apr 2016 | WORKSHOP, OUTREACH, PARTICIPANT,

  Participant on the Lorentz Center Workshop on Emotions as Feedback Signals held in Leiden, The Netherlands, 18^th – 22^nd April, 2016. For more information on the workshop, click here.

2014

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  Co-Organization: International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN)

  15 Sep 2014 | CALL FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCE, ORGANIZATION,

  Member of Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) held in Hamburg, Germany, 15^th – 19^th September, 2014. This conference is organized yearly by the European Neural Network Society (ENNS).

2013

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  Co-Organization: Special Session on Training in Robotics for Development of Cognition (RobotDoC)

  Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob)

  18 Aug 2013 | WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE, ORGANIZATION,

  Co-organizer of the Special Session on Training in Robotics for Development of Cognition (RobotDoC) held in Osaka, Japan, 18^th August, 2013. Co-located with the Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob).

2012

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  Co-Organization: Postgraduate Conference on Robotics and Development of Cognition

  International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN)

  10 Sep 2012 | LOCAL CHAIR, CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE, ORGANIZATION,

  Local Chair of the Postgraduate Conference on Robotics and Development of Cognition (RobotDoC-PhD) held in Lausanne, Switzerland, 10^th – 12^th September, 2012. Co-located with the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN).

2011

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  Membership: EUCognition – European Society for Cognitive Systems

  01 Jun 2011 | MEMBERSHIP, OUTREACH,

  I joined the EUCognition – European Society for Cognitive Systems. For more information about the mission and activities of EUCognition please visit this link.

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