August 25, 2025
Spent a wonderful week in Eindhoven at RO-MAN 2025 where I presented early results from a student project by Kangdi Wang. RO-MAN has grown considerable over the last few years with over 600 attendees and 6 tracks. The conference is a leading forum where the latest developments and future perspectives of Human-Robot Interaction are presented and discussed.
Matthew has been attending talks on how we might develop state of the art AI models to control and model user interaction. He attended a workshop looking at interaction with children (one of the world’s most difficult customers), as well as presenting work on how to facilitate smooth interruptions and the impact of science fiction on the way we see technology and interaction over the next decade.
Some of the leading figures in speech interaction were at the conference including Professor Roger Moore from the University of Sheffield who has been a leading light in conversational interaction for many years and Samer Al Moubayed, CEO of Furhat Robotics, one of the leading social robotics companies in the world and Dr Ali Paikana (pictured), CTO of LuxAI which specialises in robots to help and support children with autism.