Organizers

Our organizing team brings together research and deployment perspectives from academia and industry.

Luis F.C. Figueredo

Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK; Associated Fellow, MIRMI, Technical University of Munich, Germany.

Co-organizer of more than ten ICRA/IROS workshops and the 3rd UK Robot Manipulation Workshop; Organizing Chair of HFR 2023 and founder-organiser of the Geriatronics Summit.

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Robin J. Kirschner

Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), Technical University of Munich, Germany.

Project Lead of MIRMI’s AI Robot Performance and Safety Center. Co-organizer of Robot Safety in Times of AI at IROS 2024 and the first Building Safe Robots workshop.

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Marta Lagomarsino

Human-Robot Interfaces and Interaction Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy.

Workshop organizer in human behaviour monitoring, human–robot collaboration and human-in-the-loop robot learning at ICRA, RSS, RO-MAN and IROS; Co-Chair of the IEEE RAS Young Reviewers Program.

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Eugene Kim

Senior Researcher, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), Republic of Korea.

Experience coordinating invited and special sessions on industrial robotics, mobility, manufacturing technologies and AI-based applications, including ICCAS and KIEV.

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Yue Hu

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada.

Workshop-organizing experience at Humanoids, ICRA, CoRL and RO-MAN; General Co-Chair of IEEE RO-MAN 2027.

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Karol Janik

Manufacturing Technology Centre, UK; School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK.

General Chair of ERF 2027, co-chair of five MTC Robotics & Automation Conferences (2022–2026), and organizer of workshops across successive European Robotics Forums.

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