Speakers

Patrick Holthaus is a Senior Research Fellow and manager of the Robot House at the University of Hertfordshire, a unique facility for human-robot interaction, he brings together real-world applications and fundamental robotics research. His research focus is social robotics, including a robot's nonverbal robot signalling, social credibility, and trust in assistive robots. Patrick is currently a CoI of the Horizon Europe project SWAG and the EPSRC Network+ EMERGENCE and has been a CoI of the UKRI TAS hub's pump priming project Kaspar explains and the AAIP-funded feasibility project Assuring safety and social credibility.