
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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https://giannaccini.com/ 26-05-2020 10:12:12
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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 💫

There's time until the 27th of October to apply for the Blackwood Homes and Care design awards! Here's more information: blackwoodgroup.org.uk/latest-news/bl…


This Disney robot is so cute! Also, I seem to recognise a former member of the SoftLab Bristol and BristolRoboticsLab interacting with it in the video at 00:38... :)

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).


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…



It was great having Dr. Marcie O'Malley from Rice University present her inspiring work on haptics feedback for wearable devices here at University of Aberdeen yesterday. 🦾🫵🤖


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 🤖🐜.

Congratulations to the IEEE UK and Ireland Section #RAS conference organisers: Sanja Dogramadzi, Alessandro Di Nuovo, hamish cunningham, Yang-Hui He and the rest of the team Sheffield Robotics for an inspiring #robotic event. Thanks to Dana Damian who did a stellar job chairing the soft robotics session.



There’s human-#robot interaction even Comic Con Scotland 🤖🎞️😜

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 🎼🤖🎼

We made it to the BBC! Read about the soft #robotics wearable device for stroke patients made by James Greig, supervised by Ed Chadwick and me University of Aberdeen bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…


🚀 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…



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


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 🙏
