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Quentin Houbre’s research lies at the intersection of human-robot collaboration, cognitive semantics, and interactive learning. His work focuses on enabling robots to understand and adapt to human teammates through shared semantic frameworks and intuitive teaching methods. Houbre’s most cited paper, “Teaching semantics and skills for human-robot collaboration” (2019, 11 citations), addresses the critical challenge of bridging terminological differences between humans and machines to foster effective teamwork. He further advanced this area with “Human-Robot Interactive Learning Architecture using Ontologies and Symbol Manipulation” (2018, 9 citations), which proposes a structured approach for robots to learn and reason about tasks. Beyond software, Houbre contributed to hardware design with “Many Faced Robot” (2019, 4 citations), a parametric, modular, and open-source robot head that allows researchers to explore the impact of visual appearance on social robot acceptance. His work on virtual teaching for assembly tasks (2020, 3 citations) targets industrial applications, aiming to make robots more versatile partners in small and medium enterprises. Through his integrated approach combining semantics, learning, and design, Houbre is helping shape a future where robots can truly collaborate with humans in both domestic and industrial settings.