Anaís Garrell Zulueta
Professora Agregada
Vice-Director
Subline:
Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems
agarrell (at) iri.upc.edu
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http://www.iri.upc.edu/people/agarrell
Anaís Garrell Zulueta is a Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and a Robotics Researcher at the Robotics Institute (CSIC-UPC). She completed her undergraduate degree in Mathematics in 2006 under the UB's excellence program and received a four-year FPU scholarship in 2007. In 2013, she earned her European doctorate with the highest honors (Excellent Cum Laude) and was awarded the second prize for the best Spanish robotics thesis.
As leader
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HandIA: Nueva herramienta de rehabilitación basada en IA para estimación de la posición de la mano interactuando con objetos
Regional Project
Start Date: 01/03/2025
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LENA: Lifelong navigation learning using human-robot interaction
National Project
Start Date: 01/09/2023
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SOCIAL PIA: Cooperative Social PIA model for Cybernetics Avatars (Moonshot Research and Development Program)
UPC Project
Start Date: 01/04/2023
As contributor
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TORNADO: foundaTion mOdels for Robots that haNdle smAll, soft and Deformable Objects
European Project
Start Date: 01/01/2025
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TRIFFID: auTonomous Robotic aId For increasing FIrst responDers efficiency
European Project
Start Date: 01/10/2024
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SOCIAL PIA: Cooperative Social PIA model for Cybernetics Avatars (Moonshot Research and Development Program)
UPC Project
Start Date: 01/04/2023
Publications
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L.B. Hriscu, A. Sanfeliu and A. Garrell Zulueta. Human perception in social tasks: a comparative evaluation of autonomous and teleoperated robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 11(1): 234-241, 2026.
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A. Garrell Zulueta, G. Canal and R. Ros. Special issue on prediction and anticipation for reasoning in Human-Robot Interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics, 2025.
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V. Bo, A. Garrell Zulueta and A. Sanfeliu. HINT-Bench: human intention recognition benchmark for social robotics, 2025 Iberian Robotics Conference, 2025, Porto, Portugal, Springer, to appear.
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L.B. Hriscu, A. Sanfeliu and A. Garrell Zulueta. From automation to telepresence: exploring voice preferences in humanoid robots, 2025 Iberian Robotics Conference, 2025, Porto, Portugal, Springer, to appear.
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G. Gomez, J. Laplaza, A. Sanfeliu and A. Garrell Zulueta. Enhancing context-aware human motion prediction for efficient robot handovers, 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2025, Hanzghou, China, pp. 16917-16922.
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M. Moutousi, A. El Saer, N. Nikolaou, A. Sanfeliu, A. Garrell Zulueta, L. Bláha, M. Čech, E.K. Markakis, I. Kefaloukos, M. Lagomarsino, G. Margetis, E. Adamakis, A. Poulakidas, F. Lykokanellos, A. Stefanidou, J. Cani, P. Radoglou-Grammatikis, M. Siganos, A. Ajoudani and G.T. Papadopoulos. TORNADO: Foundation models for robots that handle small, soft and deformable objects, 6th International Conference in Electronic Engineering and Information Technology, 2025, Chania (Greece), pp. 1--13.
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F. Gebelli, A. Garrell Zulueta, J. Habekost, S. Lemaignan, S. Wermter and R. Ros. Personalised explanations in long-term human-robot interactions, 34th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2025, Eindhoven, Netherlands, pp. 775-782.
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L. Fuster, M. Dalmasso, A. Aubach, S. Izquierdo, A. Sanfeliu and A. Garrell Zulueta. Negotiation of assignation plans in human-robot team task scheduling, 34th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2025, Eindhoven, Netherlands, pp. 1222-1228.
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L.B. Hriscu, A. Sanfeliu and A. Garrell Zulueta. AI or Human? Understanding perceptions of embodied robots with LLMs, 34th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2025, Eindhoven, Netherlands, pp. 917-923.
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A. Garrell Zulueta, I. del Pino, A. Santamaria-Navarro and A. Sanfeliu. Collaborative Transport Robots (CTRs) applicable in the proximal urban environment: A review. ACE | Architecture, City and Environment, 20(58): 12627, 2025.
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PhD Theses as supervisor
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User-centric Explainable Human-Robot Interaction
Student:
Ferran Gebelli Guinjoan
Started:
01/10/2023
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Large language models to enhance the interaction between humans and robots
Student:
Lavinia Beatrice Hriscu Acsinte-Staut
Started:
16/12/2024
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Human Intention Learning with Large Concept and Vision Models: A Multimodal Framework for Collaborative Robotics
Student:
Edison Jair Bejarano Sepulveda
Started:
01/01/2025
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Deep Learning Models for the Detection and Interpretation of Human Intentions in Collaborative Robotics
Student:
Sergio Hernández Jiménez
Started:
01/11/2025
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Master theses as supervisor
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Intelligent Agents for Adaptive Learning in Human-Robot Interaction
Student:
Martí Llairó
Started:
04/09/2025
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Anticipating future actions from videos
Student:
Carla Macias Lopez
Started:
28/01/2026
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TFG (final year projects) as supervisor
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IA-Task planner for a robot’s shopping assistant
Student:
Diego Arcos Conchillo
Started:
15/09/2024
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Design and Implementation of a Hand Gesture-Based Human-Robot Interaction System
Student:
Maria Gil Casas
Started:
02/02/2025
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Algorismes de visió per la seguretat en conducció autònoma amb el simulador CARLA
Student:
Miquel Rodriguez Sansaloni
Started:
05/02/2026
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Obtenció de preferències i els motius dels usuaris per a la personalització del comportament de robots assistencials
Student:
Luis Kazuto Gutiérrez Kitajima
Started:
05/02/2026
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