Our Role
PAL Robotics will play a crucial role in the SWEET project, leading advancements in human and context awareness for socially aware service robots. We will focus on enabling robots to perceive, interpret, and respond to human emotions, intentions, and social conventions, ensuring seamless interaction and acceptance in real-world environments. As the leader of Work Package 3 (Human and Context Awareness), PAL Robotics will contribute expertise in robot perception, social embeddings, and non-verbal communication analysis.
Additionally, PAL will host and supervise ESR4, a dedicated researcher pursuing a PhD at UPC, and provide support for three secondment students from SHU, CSIC, and UEX. Our team will also oversee the management of results exploitation and impact, ensuring that the research findings translate into meaningful advancements for robotics and AI-driven social interaction.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Work Package 3 (Human and Context Awareness) to develop advanced perception and social interaction capabilities for service robots.
- Supervise ESR4 during their PhD research at UPC, guiding them in developing socially aware robotics functionalities.
- Develop social embedding techniques, allowing robots to understand and adapt to human behaviors, emotions, and cultural differences.
- Contribute to the study of soft and transferable skills, enhancing the ability of robots to engage naturally in human environments.
- Ensure secure multimodal interaction by protecting user privacy and fostering ethical AI-driven robotic behavior.
- Manage the exploitation and impact of research results, facilitating knowledge transfer and future adoption in real-world applications.
- Organize the project’s main networking event, a workshop in M36, bringing together experts to discuss and advance socially aware robotics.
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