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07/11: 3 out of 3 IROS'11 submissions have been accepted! This year with a below-30% acceptance rate.

06/11: Our mobile robot platform DARYL finally arrived!

03/11: Review season! Luciano is on the PC of ICCV, RSS, KI. Kai is on the PC of ICAPS, HRI, ICCV, RSS, AAAI Student Abstracts, IROBOT, ICSR, ECMR, and serves as AE for IROS'11 and ICRA'12.

01/11: All three ICRA'11 plus our ICAPS'11 paper have been accepted.

04/10: Our AAAI'10 paper has been accepted for oral presentation in the PGAI track.

03/10: Kai Arras becomes Associate Editor of the International Journal of Social Robotics.

02/10: The IJSR special issue on People Detection and Tracking, edited by Kai Arras and Oscar Martinez Mozos, is out.

01/10: Luciano Spinello joins the lab as a post-doctoral research associate. Benvenuto!

11/09: Diego Tipaldi received the AI*IA prize for the best italian PhD thesis in AI. Brav' uaglio'!

06/09: Our paper "Place-Dependent People Tracking" has been accepted at ISRR'09 and invited to the IJRR best paper special issue.

12/08: Diego Tipaldi finishes his PhD at the University of Rome La Sapienza with the highest grade.

12/08: Kai Arras and Oscar Martinez Mozos organize the ICRA'09 Workshop on people detection and tracking. Workshop homepage.

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We make robots socially more compatible

Next-generation robots will work closely with humans as companions at home, care-takers for the elderly, intelligent cars or as helpers in the service industry. Their tasks require advanced social and cognitive skills to effectively interact and cooperate with humans. We believe that the key to long-term acceptance and utility of robots is their ability to perceive, understand, learn and reproduce human social behavior.
Thus, we ask the following questions:

  • How can robots learn to become socially more compatible?
  • How can robots learn human social behavior by observation and imitation?
  • How can robots recognize intentions and goals to naturally blend
    into human activities?
  • What are the cognitive processes and their implementations
    that enable this behavior?
  • How can we create sustainable and efficient human-robot relationships?

The SRL is part of the SFB/TR8 Spatial Cognition Research Center