Lorenzo Ferrini

Lorenzo Ferrini

PhD candidate

PAL Robotics

Current & Past Positions

  • Robotics Software Engineer
    PAL Robotics , Barcelona, ES
    2021-10 – Present

Education

  • PhD Researcher in Autonomous Systems Lab
    TU Wien , Vienna, AT
    2022
  • Robotics and Automation Engineering
    Università di Pisa , Pisa, IT
    2017 – 2021
  • Computer Engineering
    Università di Pisa , Pisa, IT
    2014 – 2017

Publications

From Percepts to Semantics: A Multi-modal Saliency Map to Support Social Robots’ Attention

Antonio Andriella , Lorenzo Ferrini , Raquel Ros , Séverin Lemaignan
2025 - ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction DOI: 10.1145/3737891 Social Robotics Social Robotics

Demonstration of an Open-Source ROS 2 Framework and Simulator for Situated Interactive Social Robots

Ferran Gebellí , Lorenzo Ferrini , Luka Juričić , Raquel Ros , Sara Cooper , Séverin Lemaignan
2025 - 2025 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) DOI: 10.1109/hri61500.2025.10974109 Social Robotics Social Robotics

Hands-on: From Zero to an Interactive Social Robot Using ROS4HRI and LLMs

Ferran Gebelli , Lorenzo Ferrini , Luka Juričić , Raquel Ros , Sara Cooper , Séverin Lemaignan

TIAGo Head: an AI Powered Platform for Social Robotics

Ferran Gebellí , Francesco Ferro , Lorenzo Ferrini , Luca Marchionni , Luka Juričić , Narcis Miguel , Raquel Ros , Sara Cooper , Séverin Lemaignan
2025 - 2025 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) DOI: 10.1109/ro-man63969.2025.11217595 Social Robotics Social Robotics

VDB-based Spatially Grounded Semantics for Interactive Robots

Lorenzo Ferrini , Séverin Lemaignan
2025 - 2025 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) DOI: 10.1109/hri61500.2025.10974135 Social Robotics Social Robotics

Social Embeddings: Concept and Initial Investigation

Antonio Andriella , Lorenzo Ferrini , Luka Juricic , Raquel Ros , Séverin Lemaignan , Youssef Mohamed

reMap: Spatially-grounded and Queryable Semantics for Interactive Robots

Ferrini, L. , Lee, D. , Lemaignan, S. , Lorenzo Ferrini , Marino, A. , Palmieri, J. , Séverin Lemaignan
2024 - International Conference on Social Robotics DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-3519-1_35 Social Robotics Social Robotics

Open-source Natural Language Processing on the PAL Robotics ARI Social Robot

Andriella, A. , Cooper, S. , Ferrini, L. , Irisarri, A. , Lemaignan, S. , Lorenzo Ferrini , Ros, R. , Sara Cooper , Séverin Lemaignan
2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction DOI: 10.1145/3568294.3580041 Social Robotics Social Robotics

Kinematically-consistent Real-time 3D Human Body Estimation for Physical and Social HRI

Lorenzo Ferrini , Severin Lemaignan
2022 - 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) DOI: 10.1109/hri53351.2022.9889358 Social Robotics Social Robotics

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