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Papers and publications
"Multimodal voice activity projection for turn-taking in social robots with voice-activity-related pretrained encoders".
A. Cano et al., RO-MAN 2026.
To appear
"Dozens, not thousands: A small dataset pipeline for custom wake words".
S. Panagiotidi et al., RO-MAN 2026.
To appear
"Autonomous Robot-Administered Anxiety Screening in Pediatric Oncology".
E. Nichols et al., RO-MAN 2026.
To appear
“Family Privacy Perceptions of Robots in the Home: A Multi-Site Convergence across USA,
Spain, and Ukraine”.
L. Levinson, et al., THRI 2026.
Publication
“Towards Improving Turn-Taking in Social Robots Using Visual-Only Voice Activity
Detection in Multimodal Dialogue Systems”
A. Cano, et al., ICSR 2025.
Publication
“IMProofBench: Benchmarking AI on Research-Level
Mathematical Proof Generation”
J. Schmitt et
al. MATH-AI workshop, NEURIPS 2025.
Pre-print
“Engagement Estimation in Child-Robot Interaction via Transfer Learning from a
Pre-trained Facial Emotion Recognition Model”
G.A. García, et al., ICSR 2025.
Publication
“Investigation of the spin dynamics of quantum spin dimers
with Dzyaloshinsky–Moriya interaction”
Wieser, R. and Sánchez, R. Annals of Physics
2025.
Publication
“UAV base-station design method and optimization for urban
environment
communication with 5G cellular network”
Lala, V. et al. Computer
Networks and Communications 2025.
Publication
“Exploring Key Challenges in Child-Robot Interaction Using Haru4Kids: Engagement,
Language Understanding, and Privacy”
G. García et al. Intech Book Chapter 2025.
Publication
“Robótica social en oncología pediátrica”
G. Álvarez et. al., Book Chapter: Filología
y nuevas tecnologías: 9 (Ciencia al alcance). 2024
Publication
“Preliminary study on the feasibility of approximating children’s engagement level from
their emotions estimation by a picture-based, three-model AI in a family-robot
cohabitation scenario”
G. García et al. Advanced Robotics 2024.
Publication
“A multi-site language study on child-robot dialogues”
G. Pérez et al. Advanced
Robotics 2024.
Publication
“Design of Embodied Mediator Haru for Remote Cross Cultural Communication”
R. Gomez et
al. ICRA 2024.
Publication
“Disfluency Generation for More Robust Dialogue Systems”
B. Marie. ACL 2023.
Publication
“Child-robot conversation in the wild wild home: a language processing user study”
G.
Pérez et al. RO-MAN 2023.
Publication
“Living with Haru4Kids: study on children’s activity and engagement in a family-robot
cohabitation scenario”
G. García et al. RO-MAN 2023.
Publication
“Hey Haru, Let’s Be Friends! Using the Tiers of Friendship to Build Rapport through Small
Talk with the Tabletop Robot Haru”
E. Nichols et al. IROS 2022.
Publication
“Living with Haru4Kids: Child and Parent Perceptions of a Co-Habitation Robot for
Children”
L. Levinson et al. ICSR 2022.
Publication
Patents
Voice-based interaction system and method.
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Sistema y Procedimiento de Codificación y Decodificación de Información a través de
Imágenes con Decodificación Robusta a Media Distancia.
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Models
BERT_disfluency_cls: this BERT model classifies a dialogue system’s user utterance as
fluent or disfluent.
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Llama-2-13b-alpaca-es: this model is the Llama-2-13b-hf fine-tuned with an adapter on the
Spanish Alpaca dataset.
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Llama-2-7b-alpaca-es: this model is the Llama-2-7b-hf fine-tuned with an adapter on the
Spanish Alpaca dataset.
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Acknowledgements and Awards
“Best Company”, Premios Luz 2024, awarded by Cibersur.
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“Most promising SME”, PCT Cartuja 30th anniversary, awarded by PCT Cartuja.
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“Scale-up World Summit Winner”, Digital Enterprise Show -DES- 2023, awarded by La Salle
Technova.
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“Best Startup”, Andalucía Roadshow 2023, awarded by Junta de Andalucía.
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Neotec Grant 2022, approved by CDTI (Spanish Center for Industrial Technology
Development).
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“Best Innovation Project”, Sevilla Futura Challenge 2020, awarded by Cisco, IBM and
Airbus.
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