Two scientific publications from a trial with WallBo will be presented at the prestigious ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference #HandWashingWithWallBo #TeamSoBots #SocialRobotsforGood publication-> dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/34…

News coverage from some scottish news papers about our trials with WallBo in Glasgow schools

Great piece in today’s Glasgow Times about WallBo 🤖 the friendly robot developed by Amol Deshmukh of @UofGPsychology, which encourages schoolkids to wash their hands and has been trialled in two Glasgow primaries. Read the article here 👇 glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/19483909.…

✋ Hand-wash ‘buddy’ WallBo has been successfully trialled in two Glasgow schools to boost hygiene awareness and help get kids washing their hands during the pandemic. 👋 Find out more here 👇 #Tech | #Covid19 | #Scotland digit.fyi/wallbo-ai-tech…

A friendly handwashing robot developed by Amol Deshmukh of @UofGPsychology has been making a splash at two Glasgow primary schools. Read more about how WallBo boosted kids' hand hygiene by 85% here: gla.ac.uk/news/headline_…

Researchers at University of Glasgow are trialling new artificial intelligence technology in primary schools to help boost hygiene levels. Their robotic hand wash 'buddy', WallBo, is making quite an impression with the children 🤖 #ScotInnovation #AI ow.ly/aNai50FJiki

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Delighted to be the finalist for Converge impact challenge amongst some great innovations. Converge is Scotland’s largest entrepreneurial development programme for the university sector and we are proud to be in the final for 2021! #HandWashingWithWallBo #converge2021finals

Delighted to see three #TeamUofG academic entrepreneurs through to the Converge 2021 Award Finals! Congrats and good luck WallBo, Badri Aekbote, Victor Ochoa-Gutierrez 🤞 #WorldChangingGlasgow

Gave my first academic lecture to a class full of MSc students about social robots in the wild. Some interesting discussions and good engagement from students in the class #firstlectureinacamemia #socialrobotsinthewild #sobots University of Glasgow @UofGPsychNeuro

We are so happy to have Dr. Amol Deshmukh Amol Deshmukh as one of the teaching members for the Social Robotics course in @UofGPsychNeuro this year! 🤖🥳

Excited to kick-off on this proof-of-concept project to further the development of WallBo

Today is global handwashing day, Handwashing is one of the most effective ways to prevent the spread of diseases 🦠& save lives 👐. #HandHygieneforAll #GlobalHandwashingDay #AIforgood #socialrobotsforgood #Handwashing #CleanHandsSafeHands #HandWashingWithWallBo #ForEveryChild

WallBo (Marathi speaking) visited Nandadeep School in Pune, India and interacted with pupils to teach them handwashing. Great response from the pupils and improvement in their handwashing compliance and knowledge just with a short term intervention. #HandWashingWithWallBo

Delighted to be one of the speakers for Pint of Science UK event alongside some excellent speakers talking about "Exploring Social Robots for Impact and Technology Inclusion" #robotics #science pintofscience.co.uk/event/rethinki…

Looking forward to present our research with WallBo and attend interesting talks at international conference on social robotics! #socialrobotics #icsr icsr23.qa

I am delighted to be granted a #MSCA Marie Curie fellowship with an overall score of 97%. I am thrilled to embark on my project with WallBo working alongside Prof. Emily Cross Emily S. Cross at ETH Zurich and @maryellenfoster.bsky.social at UofG Computing Science! #SocialRobotsForGood @MSCActions

🙌 To ensure all attendees feel comfortable, our amazing team of student volunteers organized by Andrés Ramírez 🇨🇴 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and Amol Deshmukh will be there to support you throughout the conference. Don't hesitate to reach out—they're here to help!

I’m thrilled and proud to share that my first full paper has been accepted at the prestigious and highly selective Human-Robot Interaction Conference! Thanks to my amazing co-authors Emily S. Cross @maryellenfoster.bsky.social #hri2025 WallBo #HandWashingWithWallbo The HRI Conference