HRI 2025

How do robots enhance human interaction and contribute to a sustainable future?

Join us at HRI 2025, the 20th edition of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, where global experts come together to explore the intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence, and human social dynamics. Taking place from March 4-6 in Melbourne, Australia, this year’s event revolves around a crucial theme: Robots for a Sustainable World – ensuring robotics plays a role in solving, rather than contributing to, global sustainability challenges.

Our Participation at HRI 2025

We are proud to be Gold Sponsors of HRI 2025, reinforcing our commitment to advancing human-robot interaction (HRI). At our booth, you’ll have the chance to experience TIAGo and the TIAGo Pro Head, two of our flagship robots designed to push the boundaries of social and interactive robotics.

What’s on Our Agenda?

March 3rd

TUTORIAL / Hands-on: from Zero to an Interactive Social Robot using ROS4HRI and LLMs
Time: 13:30 (GMT+11)
Speakers: Séverin Lemaignan / Lorenzo Ferrini

WORKSHOP / The road to reliable robots
In-the-wild longitudinal experiments: opportunities and challenges
Time: 13:30 (GMT+11)
Speaker: Ferran Gebellí

INDUSTRY PRESENTATION / How PAL spearheads standards creation in Human-Robot Interaction
Time: 16:00 (GMT+11)
Speaker: Lorenzo Ferrini

March 4th
Our colleague Séverin Lemaignan, General Chair of the HRI’25 conference, will officially open the conference at 09:00 with Wafa Johal, Sr Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Melbourne.
COMPANY PRESENTATION / PAL Robotics: a leader in HRI and AI
Time: 14:30 (GMT+11)
Speakers: Raquel Ros  / Ferran Gebellí / Lorenzo Ferrini

March 5th
PRESENTATION / VDB-based Spatially Grounded Semantics for Interactive Robots
Time: 13:10 (GMT+11)
Speaker: Lorenzo Ferrini

March 6th
PRESENTATION / Personalised Explainable Robots Using LLMs
Time: 10:00 (GMT+11)
Speaker: Ferran Gebellí

+ EXCLUSIVE DEMO
Open-source ROS 2 Framework and Simulator for Situated Interactive Social Robot: Discover the science behind our new LLM-enabled robot assistant, from 3D world models, to social interactions and natural speech.

📌 4th March / 14:40 (GMT+11)

📌 5th March / 10:00 (GMT+11)

The HRI team

Our HRI team at PAL is made by engineers, computer scientists, and passionate innovators. They are constantly studying how robots can better understand, assist, and connect with people.Their work is crucial for the integration of robots in our lives. If you want to book a demo, arrange a visit or just discuss the future of humanity with intelligent robotic social agents, just drop us a line.