Luis J. Manso

2 years later... new pre-print! Towards Data-Driven Metrics
for Social Robot Navigation Benchmarking: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01251

Isn't the simulation vs. data-driven boundary rather blurry? There's also the option of having additional restrictions & bottlenecks in learned simulators. It could enhance our understanding of what's under the hood, and it would improve data efficiency. Still giving up to some extent though.

Job Vacancy at Aston University: Lecturer in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) - 2 Posts The Aston School of Computer Science and Digital Technologies is looking for two Lecturer’s in Computer Science with a specific interest in Artificial Intelligence to help reinforce its research and t...

The Department of AI and Robotics at Aston University has just advertised two new lectureship positions. jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... The department as a whole, and the robotics group specifically (arp-lab.com), are growing strong. Feel free to DM me if you have any questions.

I survived the first 2^10 days of parenthood!

The question is how the building blocks look like and how they are built, right? Following Chollet's parallelism, I'd suggest Lego with pipes. In the direction of SAVi++ (slot-attention-video.github.io/savi++/) but with stronger biases towards representations easy to interpret. Long way to go...

Eight days until the deadline for our ICRA'25 workshop on Advances in Social Navigation: Planning, HRI and Beyond. socialnav2025.pages.dev

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
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The new year comes with the final version of our paper "Principles and Guidelines for Evaluating Social Robot Navigation Algorithms" dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

It took a while, but we have a Social Robot Navigation starter pack! go.bsky.app/Xqk4Fe Feel free to make suggestions.