Euclid at ICSR + Art 2026

The 18th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR + Art 2026) is currently taking place in London from July 1–4, bringing together researchers, academics, and industry professionals from around the world to discuss the latest advances in social robotics. One of the conference formats is a series of debates held in the Debate Hall of Senate House. On the second day, attendees had the opportunity to engage with Euclid, an android developed by Carl Strathearn and Emilia Sobolewska, as part of the session „Innovation Through Creation: The Case for Building Our Own Social Robots for HRI Research“. Euclid is a fully autonomous social robot equipped with automatic speech recognition, computer vision, generative AI, skin sensors, and a robotic mouth that uses machine learning to generate realistic visemes. Designed for social and assistive interactions with older adults, the android demonstrated how advances in artificial intelligence and robotics are enabling increasingly natural human-robot communication while providing a compelling platform for human-robot interaction research. Further information is available at icsr2026.uk and www.carlstrathearn.co.uk.

Fig.: Euclid at ICSR + Art 2026