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Prof. Barbara Bruno giving a talkVictoria Yang
Inaugural presentation at KIT

In February 2025, Professor Barbara Bruno delivered her inaugural lecture, as TT-Professor of Informatics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The presentation highlighted her academic journey and research contributions in Human-Robot Interaction, offering insights into past research, current projects, and her vision for advancing the field through innovative research and interdisciplinary collaboration.

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Talk at Science Notes, Robots and Cyborgs

In February 2025, Professor Barbara Bruno delivered a talk in Heidelberg as part of the Science Notes series. In the talk, Prof. Bruno reflected on the importance of social factors in human-robot interaction and the need to integrate them in the design of robotic technologies.

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Robotic Workshop at SARAI x she.codes by TEC

In December 2024, young girls from Karlsruhe participated in a hands-on workshop focused on social robotics. Organized by us in cooperation with the university group she.codes by TEC, the event provided an introduction to core topics in robotics, including interaction, navigation, and design.

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SPARC project funded

The collaborative SPARC project «Designing social robot interactions to support learning in collaborative making tasks», bringing together researchers from KIT and the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, has been approved for funding by the Ministry of Education of India! 

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SARAI @ ACM/IEEE HRI 2024

SARAI will be present at ACM/IEEE HRI 2024!

Check out our paper and the video.

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SARAI @ IEEE RO-MAN 2023

SARAI will be present at IEEE RO-MAN 2023 with three papers!

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SARAI

The "Socially Assistive Robotics with Artificial Intelligence" (SARAI) group is established on 01.05.2023. We look forward to exciting research and teaching at KIT!