Interacting beyond words: PAL Robotics experience

By Francesco Ferro

PAL Robotics, Spain

Social interactions between robots and humans will be fundamental with the implementation of service robots in domestic scenarios, healthcare centers and even in industry 4.0. The social robots’ assistance must go far beyond the services that a virtual software could deliver, for example, through a mobile device. Social robots have the potential to merge social interact and physical responses embodying an action. This keynote will go through the examples, benefits and challenges of social robots and the added value that they should deliver.

In this keynote speech I would like to introduce our research activities.

Bio

Francesco Ferro is the CEO and co-founder of PAL Robotics, one of the top service robotics companies in the world, and a euRobotics aisbl Board Director. He received a BSc+MSc degree in Telecommunications Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in 2002 (Italy), a Master at ISEN (Lille, France) and an Executive MBA at the University of Barcelona (Spain) in 2011. Since 2004 he develops cutting-edge humanoid service robots at PAL Robotics. The Barcelona company has the mission of making people’s life easier by using robotics, and for more than 15 years it has developed high-tech service robots for Assistive and Industrial environments.