Olivier Lamotte

Université de Bourgogne, Université de technologie de belfort-montbéliard

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Olivier Lamotte is a leading researcher in socially-compliant service robotics, with a focus on human-robot interaction and embodied perception. His most-cited work, "Human-centered Benchmarking for Socially-Compliant Robot Navigation" (2023, 8 citations), introduces a novel end-to-end benchmarking framework that quantifies the quality of robot-human interaction, addressing a critical gap in evaluating social compatibility for autonomous navigation. This framework is open-source, enabling reproducible research and accelerating progress in the field. In 2024, Lamotte advanced the state of the art with "An Open-source Software-hardware Integration Scheme for Embodied Human Perception in Service Robotics" (3 citations), which provides a rare, fully integrated solution for perceiving humans in real-world environments—a prerequisite for meaningful robot interaction. By bridging hardware and software, his work empowers researchers and developers to build more intuitive, safe, and socially aware robots. Lamotte’s contributions are foundational for the next generation of service robots, where seamless human-robot coexistence is paramount. His open-source ethos and human-centered approach mark him as a key innovator in making robotics truly collaborative.