RBCS & CONTACT IIT

We are researchers on the topic of Cognitive Robotics for Interaction from the Robotics Brain and Cognitive Sciences (RBCS) and COgNitive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies (CONTACT) Units of the Italian Institute of Technology placed in Genova (Italy).

We as researchers seek to enhance Social Robotics by studying Human-Human Interactions, and at the same time we study Human-Robot Interactions because we seek to understand our own behavior.

Why we (humans) behave in the way we do? why do we move our face and body in a certain way in certain situations? Why interactions are people and context dependent? We hope to answer these questions by studying interactions between a human and an agent that is not variable (i.e., a robot). And not only that, but in parallel, we intend to create a robot with skills that might improve its social and emotional intelligence, so someday it could be integrated in society.