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Professor of Robotics: Social Robotics, Expressive Motion, Robot Standup Comedy, Robot Command&Control, Social Touch and Haptic Interaction, AI-Assisted Talk Therapy, Entertainment Robots, Non-Verbal Communication, Multi-Robot Expression, Robot-Guided Meditation, Theater-Inspired Robotics, Performance and Gesture Generation Software.PhD Carnegie Mellon, Bachelors and MS at MIT, postdoc at Stanford University. Previous contributions to Agility Robotics, X, the Moonshot Factory, Aldebaran Robotics, NASA JPL. Duel citizenship between USA and Ireland (EU).Director of the CHARISMA Lab: Collaborative Humans and Robots: Interaction, Sociability, Machine learning, and Art (2017-ongoing). Also going on 14 years of Marilyn Monrobot, a robot theater company (began 2011), which produced the annual Robot Film Festival (2011-2019), and robot comedy performances in North America, Europe, and India. Art Installations/Video: Golem Human-Robot Dance Improvisation '23 at Corvallis Majestic Theater, Multi-Robot Demos at OMSI After Dark '22 led by Dr. Alexandra Bacula (advisee) in Oregon, USA. OK Go Rube Goldberg Machine "This Too Shall Pass" Music Video '11 (won British VMA), LACMA Interactive Art Installations and "Come Hither" an Interactive Video Projection '10 at MindshareLA in Los Angeles. CyberFlora Interactive Robots '03 at Smithsonian-Cooper Hewitt Musuem in NYC. Zanahoria the Analog Bunny '04 in Cambridge, MA. Sensate Bear at Ars Electronica '07 in Linz, Austria. Honors: 2024 ICSR Audience Award for "VR Storytelling," 2022 HRI Best Video, 2019 Osher Fellowship at The Exploratorium, 2011 Forbes List for 30 under 30 in Science, and 2010 TED.com robot comedy performance "Silicon Comedy." PhD dissertation was "Expressive Motion for Low Degree-of-Freedom Robots," August 2016. Masters thesis "Real Time Social Touch Pattern Recognition," developed for the Huggable Robot, 2008.

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