Oriol Torres
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79
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About
Oriol Torres is a leading researcher in human-robot interaction and social robotics, with a focus on developing autonomous humanoid robots for real-world service applications. His most influential work centers on the design and deployment of the Reem-B humanoid robot, a lightweight platform introduced in a 2008 paper (56 citations) that established a foundation for robots capable of cohabiting human environments. Torres’s major contributions lie in evaluating how robots interact with groups in crowded, unstructured public spaces. His landmark 2015 study (20 citations) deployed a humanoid guide for a full week at Barcelona’s CosmoCaixa Science Museum, analyzing group-robot dynamics with hundreds of visitors—a pioneering effort in long-term, in-the-wild research. He further explored spatial relationships in human-robot guidance (2014), revealing that walking configurations often deviate from robotic models. Torres’s work has advanced understanding of social navigation and acceptance, directly informing the design of service robots for museums, hospitals, and public venues. His achievements include demonstrating the feasibility of sustained autonomous operation in complex social settings, making him a key figure in bridging laboratory robotics with real-world human interaction.
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- 1Reem-B: An autonomous lightweight human-size humanoid robot56 citations · 2008
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