Our applied research bridges the gap between theoretical advances and practical implementations.

Key Areas

• Social Impact of Robots and AI in Healthcare and Education
• Ethical and Responsible robotics
• Open-source software and hardware for social AI

Active & past projects

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  EMORI

  active

  Embodied Multimodal Observation and Response Interface: a robot-based training companion for de-escalation and empathetic communication in healthcare

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  ROS4HRI

  active

  ROS for Human-Robot Interaction (ROS4HRI) is the standard ROS API for your robot to represent information about the human surrounding and interacting with the robot.

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  EMOROBCARE

  completed

  A low-cost social robot for supporting children with autism in therapeutic settings

Key publications

• AI as a creative partner: a PRISMA review of AI’s role in supporting creativity in education

  Romero, M. , Romero, Margarida , Urmeneta, A.

  2025 - Frontiers in Education DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1602151 Education Sciences

• EMOROBCARE: A Low-Cost Social Robot for Supporting Children with Autism in Therapeutic Settings

  Alberto Redondo , Arnau Mayoral-Macau , Bartomeu Pou , David Rios , Raquel Ros , Sara Cooper

  2026 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-2379-5_53 Social Robotics

• “It’s Important to Think of Pepper as a Teaching Aid or Resource External to the Classroom”: A Social Robot in a School for Autistic Children

  Joe Daly , Louis Rice , Nigel Newbutt , Séverin Lemaignan

  2024 - International Journal of Social Robotics DOI: 10.1007/s12369-022-00928-4 Social Robotics