Professor Angelo Cangelosi

IAS Annual Theme: AI:Facts, Fictions, Futures

University of Manchester

Angelo Cangelosi is Professor of Machine Learning and Robotics at the University of Manchester (UK). He also is Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute London, and Visiting Distinguished Fellow at AIST-AIRC Tokyo.

His research interests are in developmental robotics, language grounding, human robot-interaction and trust, and robot companions for health and social care. He currently is Principal investigator for the ongoing projects UKRI TAS Trust Node, THRIVE++ (US Air Force Lab) and the H2020 projects TRAINCREASE, eLADDA ETN and PERSEO ETN.

Cangelosi is Editor of the journals Interaction Studies and IET Cognitive Computation and Systems. His book “Developmental Robotics: From Babies to Robots” (MIT Press) was published in January 2015, and recently translated in Chinese and Japanese. His latest book “Cognitive Robotics” (MIT Press), coedited with Minoru Asada, will be published in 2021.

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