news
an uncategorised (an possibly outdated) list of things that happened to me
| Mar 19, 2026 | Our paper Who leads the story? Comparing autonomous vs. adult-supported child-robot interactions by Dotun Olutunbi et al. was presented at ACM/IEEE HRI 2026 in Edinburgh, together with a HRI LBR paper on dynamic consent in public service robots: Cato et al. |
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| Jan 15, 2026 | Secured a BBSRC FoodBioSystems DTP PhD project on “Autonomous Robotics for Animal Welfare and Environmental Monitoring” (2026-2030)! |
| Sep 1, 2025 | I have served as Area Chair for the ACM/IEEE HRI Late-Breaking Reports track, as Associate Editor for IEEE/RSJ IROS, and in the Program Committee for ECMR. |
| Jun 15, 2025 | Our paper Modelling robot navigation recovery policies from non-expert users’ demonstrations in-the-wild by Ahmad Faris et al. was nominated for the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Robotic Computing and Communication (RoboticCC) 2025 🏅! |
| Mar 1, 2025 | Two new grants awarded as Co-I: “ProPick: Using eye-tracking and AI to enhance the Performance Of fruit Pickers” (£87,380, EPSRC LINCAM AgriTech Cluster) and “Perfecting the Pick” (£7,000, UoL QR fund)! |
| Jan 15, 2025 | Awarded a £20,000 UKRI UK-RAS Network Fundamental Research Grant for the project “Principles of Learning from Unstructured Human-Robot Interactions” (PLUS-HRI)! |
| Dec 1, 2024 | Our “Lindsey the Tour Guide Robot” project has been selected as a case study for the CreaTech Coronation Challenge by The Royal Anniversary Trust & DCMS! |
| Sep 3, 2024 | I have been invited as a Panelist at the Future Perspectives event at the Lincoln Art Centre ! |
| Sep 27, 2023 | I have been invited as a Panel Speaker at the AI + Creativity | Innovation + Inclusion. AI Fringe event at the Lincoln Museum for a roundtable discussion on the use of AI and robotics technologies in the cultural domain for enabling inclusion. ! |
| Jul 8, 2022 | Our RA-L paper was accepted to be presented at IROS 2022 in Kyoto Japan and nominated as a finalist for the Best Paper Award on Cognitive Robotics 🏅! |
| Apr 25, 2022 | We got a paper accepted for publication at the IEEE RA-L reporting our latest research on behavioural adaptation from the users feedback during human-robot interactions! Available at: <a href=https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10518>https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10518</a> |
| Oct 28, 2021 | I will present at IROS 2021 our work Navigate-and-Seek: a Robotics Framework for People Localisation in Agricultural Environments done while working with L-CAS and Saga robotics! |
| Jan 28, 2021 | Take a look at my invited talk In-Situ Learning from Human Interactions in Public Spaces at the “Pint of Robotics” Seminar Talk series, organised by Robotics at Leeds! |
| Oct 1, 2020 | I will help organize the next HRI pioneers 2021 workshop in Boulder Colorado USA as a Web/Publicity Chair! |
| Aug 3, 2020 | I am starting a 9-months job as a Research Associate in Agricultural In-Field Robotics at Saga Robotics! I will then resume my PhD studies in the next year. |
| Dec 28, 2019 | I have been accepted to participate to the HRI pioneers workshop in conjunction with the HRI 2020 conference in Cambridge UK! |
| Jul 5, 2019 | We got a paper accepted at RO-MAN 2019 in which we report the Lindsey framework, analyse and discuss the visitors’ behaviours in terms of their engagement with our tour guide robot! |
| Mar 20, 2019 | Excited to have participated at the Public Engagement with Research at Lincoln Conference where I showcased our Lindsey Project with a poster presentation. |
| Oct 12, 2018 | I presented our article: Engaging Learners in Dialogue Interactivity Development for Mobile Robots EDUROBOTICS 2018. |
| Oct 6, 2018 | I had an oral presentation of our article: Do Not Make the Same Mistakes Again and Again: Learning Local Recovery Policies for Navigation From Human Demonstrations at IROS 2018 in Madrid. |
| Jun 23, 2018 | We were at the RoboCup 2018 in Montreal, competing in the @HOME Social Standard Platform league! |
