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Lionel Obadia, member of AS3 “Decision, learning and social interaction”, as well as international scholars in robotics have been interviewed about new studies suggesting that people project human racial biases onto the humanoid robots.

Emmanuel Ducourneau, AS1 member, Emmanuel Grimaud, co-director of PEPR O2R et coordinator of the House for potential humanities, with the contribution of Yann Philippe Tastevin, published in the journal Les Temps Qui Restent the manifesto of “deep materiology”, which lays the foundations for a field that is both theoretical and operational, dedicated to the exploration of technical systems in all their depth.

Christine Chevallereau, a member of the AS1 project, with the help of Roxane Vimbert, Idriss Pelletan, Mathieu Porez, and Anick Abourachid, is working on a tensegrity system for bipedalism in robotics. Their research has been published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

Lionel Obadia and Ganesh Gowrishankar from AS3 project invite you to their webinar on Thursday 7th May about anxiety and untrust by humans towards robots.

This seventh seminar session 2RSHS on 17th April 2026 aims to explore the relationship between robotics and the humanities and social sciences (HSS), attempting to address some challenges of modeling human movement for the design of robotic prosthetic devices.

Lola Cañamero from ETIS Lab and member of the AS1 & AS3 projects organises on 17th April an online seminar on pain in human and non-human animals with a speaker from the University of Glasgow.

Vincent Bonnet from PI2 project offers a webinar on Monday 20th April on human-centred foundations for efficient collaborative robotics.

Summer school from 6th to 10th July in Nancy, organised by Serena Ivaldi from the AS3 project, on AI and robotics in human-robot interaction, and open to all PhD and Master students in robotics and in humanities and social sciences!

Summer school from 29th June to 3rd July in Villeneuve-d’Ascq (Greater Lille) on the fundamental concepts necessary for the use of deformations in robotics, organised by Jérémie Dequidt and Christian Duriez from AS4 project, and open to research engineers, young and senior researchers, Ph.D. students!