Upcoming workshop! 🧰 From our collaboration with #AirLab Università di Torino, PRISCA Lab Unina Federico II and Uniba.it Aldo Moro emerges the 6th ed. of the *cAESAR* workshop on Social Robotics and Adaptive Interaction, at UMAP in NYC 🇺🇸! 📅 CfP open until April 9th! 🔗 caesar2025.di.unito.it/index.html IIT

Talking science 🗣️ Next Monday, May 12th, Alessandra Sciutti and Monica Gori U-VIP IIT will discuss human and artificial learning in the series of open talks "Scienza Condivisa" 🇮🇹 by Repubblica. A great chance to share our results beyond the lab! 🔗 genova.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/0… IIT

Look ma, we are on TV 📺 During #RomeCup 2025 Luca Garello was interviewed by the national tv Rai2, to describe how infants' development inspires #iCub's learning 👶🤖 Full video here 🔗 raiplay.it/video/2025/05/… or find the excerpt below 🎞️ (🇮🇹 only) IIT

Getting our robots to the public! 🤖 Tomorrow the Alter-Ego #robot by IIT will be at Acquario di Genova to instruct visitors on cetaceans and safeguard initiatives 🐬 We are the proud developers of the algorithms for its autonomous interactions 🦾 🔗 wired.it/article/alter-…

And below you can find Alessandra Sciutti reflecting on the distance between AI tools and human cognition. The road to robots able to seamlessly interact with us is still long and winding, but that won't stop us from exploring it! 🔗mondodigitale.org/notizie/oltre-… (🇮🇹 only) IIT

Leave your impact on research! ✍️ We are looking for participants for a study on the perceived impact of technology in the workplace. No prior experience required, anyone between 18 and 65 y.o. can join! More info: 🇬🇧 bric30.eu/en/studies-and… 🇮🇹 bric30.eu/it/studi-ed-ev… IIT

The next leap forward ⏩ Yesterday, Alessandra Sciutti talked about how we study the interaction between humans and robots 👤🤖 at #TheBigLeap #AI event by Cisco in Milan 🧑‍💻 It was a great moment of dialogue with industry leaders exploring the possibilities of AI 🦾 IIT

The end of a journey is the start of another 🚣 Yesterday we celebrated the incredible results achieved together with Comenius University Bratislava and Universität Hamburg in the TERAIS's closing event 🎊 Can't wait to see what the future holds! ✨ IIT

You can catch Tgcom24 interview with Francesco Rea about Alter-Ego's day at the Acquario di Genova at the following link! (🇮🇹 only) 🔗tgcom24.mediaset.it/2025/video/pun… IIT

The distance between humans 🧑 and robots 🤖: movies 🎬 vs reality 🎯 Our Marco Matarese, PhD took the stage at STEP FuturAbility District's "Tech, si gira!" event to shed a bit of light on the roles, dangers, and capabilities of robots in the near future, beyond fiction and into reality. IIT

Handy collaborations 🤝 The joint study between our lab and Brown University, led by Giulia Scorza Azzarà, shows that through cooperation 🦾💪 we can develop biases towards robots 🤖 similar to those we have towards each other 👥! 📖Full read: copsy.brown.edu/news/2025-07-1… IIT

The role of the body in the future of AI 👶 In their latest opinion paper 📰, Giulio Sandini, Alessandra Sciutti, and Pietro Morasso propose the developmental and 1st person approach to Cognitive Robotics 🤖🧠 to go beyond Embodied Foundation Models 📊 📖 frontiersin.org/journals/artif… IIT