Sara Falcone is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Pace University’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems (New York, USA). Her research lies at the intersection of human–machine interaction, teleoperation, and embodied cognition, with particular emphasis on how control strategies and multimodal sensory feedback shape the sense of embodiment in robotic and extended reality systems. Her work combines experimental user studies, immersive virtual environments, and full-body motion capture to investigate embodied interaction in telepresence, telerobotics, prosthetics, and wearable robotic systems. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science from the University of Twente, in collaboration with TNO, and has held visiting research positions at institutions in Europe and the United States, such as Sorbonne Nouvelle and Princeton University. Her work has been published in leading venues in human–robot interaction and robotics, and she is actively involved in organizing international workshops and interdisciplinary collaborations at the intersection of robotics, XR, and embodied AI.

She serves as Chair and Organizer of this ICRA workshop.

Robin Lieftink is a researcher at TNO in the Netherlands, with a background in electrical engineering and robotics. His earlier research focused on haptic interaction under time delay, addressing challenges in system stability. In 2022, he was part of the i-Botics team that placed fifth in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE. He is currently involved in the development of remote robotic systems, including unmanned systems and robotic avatars. His current research interests include teleoperation and the use of human-in-the-loop data to train and improve AI models for robotic control.

Luc works at the Human Media interaction group at the University of Twente. His research is primarily on predictive modelling of human operators in teleoperation using bayesian models and neural networks. He combines this with sensor and haptic feedback design to integrate to create functional systems adverse conditions. 

He serves as web chair and co-organizer for this workshop.