Talks & media

Talks, workshops & media.

Invited talks, conference presentations, workshops I organised and media coverage.

Workshop at ICSR 2026
Workshop

Beyond Words 2: The Role of Touch in Social Robotics

Workshop at ICSR 2026 · Jul 15, 2026

Co-organised the second edition of the workshop, bringing together researchers on haptics, embodied interaction and socio-affective robotics.

ENSTA U2IS Annual Lab Day
Poster Best Poster & Best Presentation Awards

Tactile sensing and human-robot interaction

ENSTA U2IS Annual Lab Day · May 15, 2026

Poster and talk on my PhD research, awarded both Best Poster and Best Presentation.

IEEE ICRA 2026
Paper presentation

Contributing Factors in Human-Robot Handshake: Compliance, Hand Grip, and Synchrony

IEEE ICRA 2026 · Vienna, Austria · May 1, 2026

Presentation of our study on the tactile and kinematic factors that make human-robot handshakes feel natural.

ROSConFr 2025
Talk

hid_ros2: a universal HID hardware interface for ros2_control

ROSConFr 2025 · Oct 30, 2025

Debut of hid_ros2, a ros2_control hardware interface that connects any USB-HID device (Teensy, ESP32, STM32, custom sensors) to ROS 2 without writing custom C++ plugins.

ICSR 2024
Paper presentation

Human Hand Shape and Grasping Behavior Estimation using a Humanoid Hand with a Tactile Interface

ICSR 2024 · Naples, Italy · Sep 15, 2024

Presentation of our tactile interface for humanoid hands at the 17th International Conference on Social Robotics.

Workshop at ICSR 2024
Workshop

Beyond Words: The Role of Touch in Social Robots

Workshop at ICSR 2024 · Naples, Italy · Sep 14, 2024

Organised and hosted the workshop, with invited speakers Prof. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker (MPI-IS), Dr. Morten Roed Frederiksen (ITU Copenhagen) and Dr. Zhegong Shangguan.