A conversational social robot for domestic environments

Social and assistive robots are becoming more present in our society. Particularly, the ARI robot is a high-performance social robot and companion designed for a wide range of multi-modal expressive gestures, gaze and personalised behaviour [1]. This project looks for both the implementation of large language models into social robotic agents and the deployment of it in human-robot environments in which robots might be used to assist domestic tasks [2, 3].

^{[1] Cooper, S., Di Fava, A., Vivas, C., Marchionni, L., & Ferro, F. (2020, August). ARI: The social assistive robot and companion. In 2020 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 745-751). IEEE.}

^{[2] Lemaignan, S., Cooper, S., Ros, R., Ferrini, L., Andriella, A., & Irisarri, A. (2023). Open-source Natural Language Processing on the PAL Robotics ARI Social Robot.}

^{[3] Gunson, N., Garcia, D. H., Sieińska, W., Addlesee, A., Dondrup, C., Lemon, O., ... & Yu, Y. (2022, September). A Visually-Aware Conversational Robot Receptionist. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (pp. 645-648).}