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Séverin Lemaignan 🤖 @skadge.bsky.social · Mar 20

If you ever happen to have written something negative about Trump in a messaging app, don't go to the US. You could be randomly detained as a terrorist. (so unfortunately, no US-based conference for me in the next 4y at least)

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

www.theguardian.com

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Séverin Lemaignan 🤖 @skadge.bsky.social · Mar 6

#HRI2025 is coming to a close: huge shout-out to the whole organization team, you've been incredible! I didn't think organising a large conference like #HRI could be fun: you proved it otherwise! Proud & glad to be part of this great academic community @hri-conference.bsky.social @wafaj.bsky.social

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The HRI Conference @hri-conference.bsky.social · Mar 6

Happening now: Panel on Human-Robot Interaction for a Sustainable World! 🌍🤖

Joining us are Yolande Strengers, Kate Tsui, and Maja Matarić, with Tom Williams moderating the discussion.
#HRI2025 #RobotsForASustainableWorld

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The HRI Conference @hri-conference.bsky.social · Mar 6

@yolandestreng.bsky.social wraps up her keynote by challenging us to reimagine the role of robots in sustainability. She presents three possible pathways for the future—encouraging us to think beyond the present. 🌍🤖✨

Check out the image for her thought-provoking suggestions! #HRI2025

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Séverin Lemaignan 🤖 @skadge.bsky.social · Mar 5

🙁 does that also impact directly or indirectly your research funding?

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Séverin Lemaignan 🤖 @skadge.bsky.social · Mar 4

Attending #HRI2025? Join "[Birds-of-a-Feather] Deep ML + HRI" at 03/05/2025 04:00 PM (check the Whova app), and let chat about (deep) ML and HRI

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The HRI Conference @hri-conference.bsky.social · Mar 3

An important reflection on this year’s theme, “robots for a sustainable world” and how the sustainability chairs (Illaria and Sarah) fulfilled this for the conference.

#hri2025

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Séverin Lemaignan 🤖 @skadge.bsky.social · Mar 3

Here we go! #HRI2025 is off the a great start. Thousand thanks to @wafaj.bsky.social: it has been great fun to prepare the conference with you!

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Séverin Lemaignan 🤖 @skadge.bsky.social · Feb 28

...and Pepper can move... Something I always missed with Baxter

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The HRI Conference @hri-conference.bsky.social · Feb 27

🌱 Join the #SustainableHRI Social Media Challenge!

Make #HRI2025 greener & win a 150 AUD Mabu Mabu gift card! 🍽️♻️
✅ Complete sustainability tasks (some you can do NOW!)
✅ Post with #SustainableHRI

🎉Start today!

Info here🔗 humanrobotinteraction.org/2025/social-...

Social Media Sustainability Challenge – HRI2025

humanrobotinteraction.org

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Séverin Lemaignan 🤖 @skadge.bsky.social · Feb 26

(it is also great teaching material if you want to introduce your students to stuff like: robot programming, ROS 2, HRI, LLMs, symbolic reasoning)

Séverin Lemaignan 🤖 @skadge.bsky.social · Feb 26

With the @hri-conference.bsky.social #HRI2025 around the corner, we've just released a complete tutorial to program an interactive social robot 🤖 from scratch, with LLMs: ros4hri.github.io/ros4hri-tuto...

If you are at the conference, join us next Monday for the live session!
#ROS4HRI #ROS2 #LLMs

ROS4HRI tutorials

Tutorials and guides to get started with the ROS4HRI framework.

ros4hri.github.io

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Robot Talk @robottalkpod.bsky.social · Feb 21

Here's a photo from an ethics workshop that Catherine ran, where researchers at the University of Hertfordshire worked together to identify ethical hazards presented by assistive robots, like this Ari social robot.

Find out more by listening to Episode 110 of Robot Talk: linktr.ee/robottalkpod

Three researchers sitting in a circle next to a large, white and yellow humanoid robot. Catherine is looking up at the robot and writing in a notebook.

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The HRI Conference @hri-conference.bsky.social · Feb 6

🚀 #HRI2025 is set to be the best yet!
We’ve secured our strongest-ever lineup of partners.

See: humanrobotinteraction.org/2025/partners/

📢There’s still time to get involved!

To explore collaboration opportunities, reach out to the Partners Chairs at [email protected]

Partners – HRI2025

humanrobotinteraction.org

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Tom Williams @tomwilliams.phd · Feb 4

The pure disgust at learning your university admin forced the school to take down its page of resources for undocumented students as ICE raids rage across the state.

Actively facilitating the Gestapo.

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Lux Miranda @luxmiranda.bsky.social · Feb 4

super stoked to present my cyber noir research poster tomorrow :) #wasp-hs

A photo of an black and white art-deco-stylized poster reading “Lux Miranda at Uppsala University presents: WHO IS A ROBOT? A fundamental model of artificial identity.” The poster features four panels of a woman interacting with a robot whose form shifts between androgynous, feminine, digital, physical, and merged with the woman themself. The border is emblazoned with five terms: Form, Sensory input, Consciousness, Labeling, and Assemblage. A QR code links to luxmiranda.com/identity.

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Séverin Lemaignan 🤖 @skadge.bsky.social · Feb 4

Kick off meeting of the #EU #MSCA doctoral network #MscaSweet -- we are opening 15 fully funded PhD grants, open to the whole world, on the topic of social AI for service robot. DM me if you arw interested/want more info. Boost welcome!

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · Jan 23

The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla
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Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...

Heil Tesla

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys

www.youtube.com

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · Jan 16

Clever study that explores the debate between those who claim that color categories are 'innate' and those who argue that they are dependent on language. It turns out that monkeys, unlike humans, do not have consensus color categories, suggesting cognitive mechanisms such as language are required.🧪🧠

Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · Jan 16

The origin of color categories | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The origin of color categories | PNAS

To what extent does concept formation require language? Here, we exploit color to address this question and ask whether macaque monkeys have color ...

www.pnas.org

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The HRI Conference @hri-conference.bsky.social · Jan 17

🤖 Beep boop new platform detected! 🤖
We’ve officially joined Bluesky! 🎉
Follow our new account for the latest updates, announcements, and all things HRI. We’re excited to connect with you here and across our other platforms—help us spread the word by sharing and inviting others to follow! 🚀 #HRI2025

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Séverin Lemaignan 🤖 @skadge.bsky.social · Jan 14

Spent the day playing with Phi4, the latest open LLM from #microsoft. Smallish (14B) & impressive. We can now run a GPT4-class model on the edge with top power use <40W on consumer grade HW. Interestingly, I got comparable perfs on a nvidia jetson Orin AGX and on my LunarLake Intel CPU (4-5 tok/s)

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Séverin Lemaignan 🤖 @skadge.bsky.social · Dec 3

If there's interest, I could do a short presentation of each node/tool in following-up posts. Let me know!

Séverin Lemaignan 🤖 @skadge.bsky.social · Dec 3

I've also written a few fun tutorials like 'from zero to interactive in 3h' ros4hri.github.io/ros4hri-tuto... (if you're coming to #hri #hri2025, we've got a tutorial accepted!)

From Zero to an Interactive Social Robot using ROS4HRI and LLMs

Tutorials and guides to get started with the ROS4HRI framework.

ros4hri.github.io

Séverin Lemaignan 🤖 @skadge.bsky.social · Dec 3

Talking about #ros4hri, it is going strong, with 15+ #opensource #ROS 2 nodes available, from 3D face/skeleton detection to expression recognition, probabilistic data fusion, visualization, etc. wiki.ros.org/hri

From Zero to an Interactive Social Robot using ROS4HRI and LLMs

Tutorials and guides to get started with the ROS4HRI framework.

ros4hri.github.io

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Séverin Lemaignan 🤖 @skadge.bsky.social · Dec 3

Spent the last days coding a simple #ROS 2 simulator for interaction/semantic reasoning/LLM-based chatbots. Fun to be looking back at the kind of stuff I was doing during my PhD 14+y ago 😅 all #opensource and #ros4hri compatible. Ping me if you want to play with a Docker image!

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