Maria Elena Giannaccini (@robo_elena) 's Twitter Profile
Maria Elena Giannaccini

@robo_elena

Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. My research focus is soft, bioinspired robotics and HRI. Coordinator of the robotics lab.

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✨Recruiting a funded PhD student interested in natural language processing, cognitive science, and psycholinguistics, keen to research adaptive language generation with me Computing Science | University of Aberdeen, co-supervised by Ehud Reiter. Deadline 4th November. More details: tinyurl.com/adaptNLG 💫

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The excitement of one of my University of Aberdeen students, who had been coding for only 5 weeks, at their #Robotics car driving itself to the end of the maze (audio on).

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"Are robots conscious?" …my favourite question from the TechFest live stream of the Christmas lectures. Thanks to buckiehedgie for setting up the horde of kilobots 🤖🐜🐝

"Are robots conscious?"
…my favourite question from the <a href="/TechFestNews/">TechFest</a> live stream of the Christmas lectures.
Thanks to <a href="/buckiehedgie/">buckiehedgie</a> for setting up the horde of kilobots 🤖🐜🐝
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Congratulations to James Greig, PhD student working Ed Chadwick and me for being nominated for the #BlackwoodDesignAwards2024 at the @NRobotarium for his wearable device for upper-limb rehabilitation. See: techrxiv.org/users/714141/a…

Congratulations to <a href="/JamieAGreig/">James Greig</a>, PhD student working <a href="/ekjchadwick/">Ed Chadwick</a> and me for being nominated for the #BlackwoodDesignAwards2024 at the @NRobotarium for his wearable device for upper-limb rehabilitation. See: techrxiv.org/users/714141/a…
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There is a potential PhD studentship co-funded by industry to work with our swarm team. The deadline for applications is short - 25 January. Please email me your CV if you would like to discuss this further. The studentship only covers UK fees.

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Who knew that #robots could be romantic? Happy Valentine's Day! This video is part of our Natural Environment Research Council funded study led by Fabio Manfredini on using kilobots to investigate ant behaviour 🤖🐜.

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This video does an excellent job of featuring Joel Currie’s, Action Prediction Lab / Prof Patric Bach’s and my work on how sound influences our perception of #robot motion. Link to the paper: link.springer.com/article/10.100… Thank you University of Aberdeen for putting this together 🎼🤖🎼

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Our paper on the control of self-balancing robots has been published! 🎉 This work investigates the genetic algorithm-based control of two-wheel self-balancing robots. 📜 Paper (open access): rdcu.be/ebK8n

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🚀 Less than a week to apply for a fully funded #PhD opportunity in soft #robotics and tactile sensing! 🎓 The PhD will be part of the Somabotics project (Somabotics: Creatively Embodying AI), focussed on creative interaction between humans, AI and robots. More info: somabotics.ac.uk/phd-studentshi…

🚀 Less than a week to apply for a fully funded #PhD opportunity in soft #robotics and tactile sensing! 🎓

The PhD will be part of the Somabotics project (<a href="/EmbodyingAi/">Somabotics: Creatively Embodying AI</a>), focussed on creative interaction between humans, AI and robots. 

More info:
somabotics.ac.uk/phd-studentshi…
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It was great to present at the #ERF2025 workshop “Bringing soft #robotics to application”. Thank you to the organisers Linda Paternò, Florian Hartmann and Gernot Kronreif for all their work. And here are some pics of cool robots at the conference 🤖🤓

It was great to present at the #ERF2025 workshop “Bringing soft #robotics to application”. Thank you to the organisers Linda Paternò, Florian Hartmann and Gernot Kronreif for all their work. And here are some pics of cool robots at the conference 🤖🤓
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It was truly exciting to visit S4HRI in Genova, meet iCub 🤖 (straight from my bucket list, huge thanks to Davide De Tommaso and Joel Currie) and learn about the impressive research led by Agnieszka Wykowska. #HRI #humanrobotinteraction

It was truly exciting to visit <a href="/S4HRI_iit/">S4HRI</a> in Genova, meet iCub 🤖 (straight from my bucket list, huge thanks to Davide De Tommaso and <a href="/jwgcurrie/">Joel Currie</a>) and learn about the impressive research led by <a href="/A_Wykowska/">Agnieszka Wykowska</a>. 

#HRI #humanrobotinteraction
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So excited 🤩: today is my first day as an Associate Professor at Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN, School of Computer Science! Looking forward to working on soft #robotics in the Somabotics: Creatively Embodying AI project. Thank you Steve Benford and Praminda Caleb-Solly for the warm welcome 🙏

So excited 🤩: today is my first day as an Associate Professor at <a href="/UniofNottingham/">Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN</a>, School of Computer Science! Looking forward to working on soft #robotics in the <a href="/EmbodyingAi/">Somabotics: Creatively Embodying AI</a> project. Thank you <a href="/SteveBenford10/">Steve Benford</a> and <a href="/praminda/">Praminda Caleb-Solly</a> for the warm welcome 🙏