Carolina Merino Lobato
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Carolina Merino Lobato is a leading researcher in social robotics, with a primary focus on human-robot interaction and autonomous navigation in crowded, human-populated environments. Her work addresses a critical challenge: enabling robots to move safely and naturally among people by respecting complex social norms, such as maintaining appropriate personal space and avoiding interruptions during conversations. Her most-cited paper, “Human-robot dialogue and Collaboration for social navigation in crowded environments” (2019), has garnered 8 citations and lays foundational groundwork for integrating dialogue and collaborative behaviors into socially-aware navigation systems. This research is pivotal for the future deployment of service robots in public spaces like hospitals, airports, and shopping centers, where seamless human-robot coexistence is essential. By blending insights from robotics, psychology, and human-computer interaction, Merino Lobato is helping to define the standards for socially compliant robot movement. Her contributions are particularly notable for their practical focus on real-world deployment, making her a key voice in the ongoing effort to build robots that are not only intelligent but also socially intuitive and accepted by the people they serve.
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