Raquel Ros
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Imperial College London, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Universitat Ramon Llull, Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes, Université Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Papers
40
Total Citations
957
H-Index
15
About
Raquel Ros is a robotics researcher whose work bridges artificial intelligence, human-robot interaction (HRI), and cognitive architectures. She has made significant contributions to enabling robots to understand and navigate socially rich environments, with her most influential work centering on knowledge representation, grounding, and natural interaction between humans and robots. Her ORO knowledge management platform (2010, 143 citations) stands as a landmark contribution, providing an embeddable ontology-driven framework that equips robots with common-sense reasoning capabilities essential for domestic and social contexts. Complementing this, her research on situated discourse grounding (2011, 96 citations) and referent resolution (2010, 73 citations) has advanced how robots interpret and respond to human language in real-world settings. Ros has also demonstrated a strong commitment to socially assistive robotics, particularly with children. Her hospital-based child-robot interaction studies (2011, 103 citations) offered invaluable lessons for designing robust real-world HRI systems, while her work on dance tutoring (2014, 74 citations) and healthy habit motivation (2016) explored long-term, adaptive robot companions. Earlier work in robot soccer further established her expertise in case-based reasoning and coordinated decision-making. Across her career, Ros has consistently championed robots that are cognitively aware, socially adaptive, and genuinely useful to people.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1ORO, a knowledge management platform for cognitive architectures in robotics143 citations · 2010
- 2Child-robot interaction in the wild103 citations · 2011
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- 4A case-based approach for coordinated action selection in robot soccer78 citations · 2009
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- 6Which one? Grounding the referent based on efficient human-robot interaction73 citations · 2010
- 7Retrieving and Reusing Game Plays for Robot Soccer34 citations · 2006
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- 10ORO, a knowledge management module for cognitive architectures in robotics29 citations · 2010