Invited Speakers

Adriana Tapus

ENSTA, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (France)

Adriana Tapus is a Professor at ENSTA Paris, member of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, in the Autonomous Systems and Robotics Laboratory of the Computer Science and Systems Engineering Unit (U2IS). In 2016 she was nominated as one of the “25 women in robotics you need to know about”.

Raquel Ros

Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC) (Spain)

Raquel Ros holds a PhD in Computer Science from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She is working with artificial intelligence and robotics that can support health-care. Her main research is in human-robot interaction in connection with cognitive science, psychology, sociology, health and education, with emphasis on long-term interaction.

Isabelle Blanchot

Enchanted Tools (France)

Isabelle Blanchot is the Chief Revenue Officer at Enchanted Tools, developing an assistive social robot designed to work alongside care teams to handle cognitive and physical repetitive tasks. With 25 years of experience as a consultant helping large organisations adopt new technologies, she joined Enchanted Tools to push the boundaries of emerging technology, particularly in humanoid robotics. Isabelle is passionate about the transformative potential of robotics to enhance human experience in real-world environments such as senior living communities, hospitals, retail, airports, and offices. She is actively building strategic partnerships with early adopters to confirm how social robots positively impact people’s well-being.

Praminda Caleb-Solly

University of Nottingham (UK)

Praminda Caleb-Solly is Professor of Embodied Intelligence in the School of Computer Science where she leads the Cyber-physical Health and Assistive Robotics Technologies (CHART) research group. Her research focus is on investigating different ways in which these technologies can assist people with age-related disabilities and long-term conditions, as well as their carers, in providing support for activities of daily living.