Recent & Upcoming Talks

In this talk I presented the initial results of the joint effort between the team in The University of Manchester and University of Edinburgh to create a VR intuitive interface to operate a robotic arm between the mentioned universities.

I had the opportunity to chair the very interesting Communication & Perception session for the RAIN HRI Workshop. In addition to my small introduction about the meaning of Communication and Perception for HRI in nuclear, the session had presentations from Professor Helen Hastie (Heriot-Watt University), Professor Sandor Veres (University of Sheffield) and Ben Chaudhri (Createc robotics) and an interesting discussion about the role of HRI and its challenges in the nuclear industry.

I had the honour and pleasure to present my main line of research in my alma mater’s first alumni webinar for the Mechatronics programe.

I was invited to hold a reduced version of my talk exploring my PhD work. It was my first event of this sort (i.e. big professional audience, using Zoom and without seeing the audience), which can be seen by my nervousness and bad camera angles.

An interesting and engaging space within the Robotics For Extreme Environments working group and the robotic’s community in The University of Manchester. In the first date (18-05-20), I presented my main research interests (i.

Ever increasing autonomy of machines and the need to interact with them creates challenges to ensure safe operation. Recent technical …