Roberto Pinillos

Fundación Prodintec, Centro Tecnológico del Mar

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Total Citations

242

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About

Roberto Pinillos is a pioneering researcher in service robotics, with a focus on deploying autonomous systems in real-world hospitality and healthcare environments. His most impactful work centers on the long-term integration of service robots in hotels, demonstrated through his landmark 2016 study "Long-term assessment of a service robot in a hotel environment," which has garnered 161 citations. This research, alongside his earlier 2013 paper "Sacarino, a Service Robot in a Hotel Environment" (77 citations), provides critical insights into how robots can operate effectively alongside humans in dynamic, public-facing settings—addressing challenges like navigation, user interaction, and operational reliability over extended periods. Pinillos also contributed to healthcare automation, designing a reconfigurable transport system for hospital materials (food, supplies, medicine) using mobile robots, and explored human-robot interaction through a realistic robotic head based on the Action Coding System. His work bridges the gap between laboratory prototypes and practical deployment, offering valuable lessons for students and researchers interested in service robot adoption, human-robot collaboration, and the engineering of robust, user-friendly autonomous systems.