Pilot and Ambassador have garnered the company multiple global awards, including the CES Innovation Award (20), the IEEE N3xt Award and the London Design Award. Sergio Del Río is a co-founder and VP of Product at Waverly Labs, designers and manufacturers of the Pilot Smart Earbuds and the Ambassador Interpreter, which claims to be “the world’s most sophisticated translation device”. In 2018/19 she served as guest (co-)editor of a special issue of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B entitled “From social brains to social robots: Applying neurocognitive insights to human-robot interaction", and is in constant demand as a Program Committee member for conferences including the "International Conference on Social Robotics" and "Human-Robot Interaction".
She is a Core Member of the Ellis Society (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems):, and a Board Member of the Association of ERC Grantees (AERG). She is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Social Robotics and an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychology (Cognition section). She uses behavioural measures (eyetracking, psychophysics) and EEG to research human-robot interaction. Her research focuses on social cognitive neuroscience and human-robot interaction. In 2016 she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant, “InStance” (Intentional Stance for Social Attunement). She obtained a PhD in Psychology from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) in 2008, but her background is in cognitive neuroscience (MSc in Neuro-Cognitive Psychology, LMU, 2006) and philosophy (MA in Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, 2001). She is also affiliated to Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, where she is an Adjunct Professor in Engineering Psychology, and to University of Manchester, where she holds a Visiting Professorship. Professor Agnieszka Wykowska is Principal Investigator for the Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction (S4HRI) research line at the Italian Institute of Technology, Genova.
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