Welcome to the Social Robotics Lab at Uppsala University

At Uppsala Social Robotics lab we aim to design and develop robots that learn to interact socially with humans and bring benefits to the society we live in, for example in application areas such as education, e-learning, healthcare and assistive technology.

Most recent news

September 2025 Ginevra Castellano was awarded the Thuréus Prize 2025!

August 2025 We had three publcations featured at RO-MAN 2025!

June 2025 Mengyu Zhong successfully defended her PhD thesis “Bridging Technology and Mental Health: Challenges and Opportunities in Robot-assisted Perinatal Depression Screening”. Congratulations Dr. Zhong!

April 2025 Yue Lou has joined our lab as a PhD student. Welcome Yue!

November 2024 Marc Fraile successfully defended his PhD thesis and became a USRL alumnus. Congratulations Dr. Fraile!

September 2024 Hong Wang has joined our lab as a PhD student!

May 2024 Our Lab had a booth at the UN AI for Good summit, where Ginevra also delivered a speech!

April 2024 Ronald Cumbal has joined the lab as a postdoctoral researcher!

March 2024 We have two publications accepted at HRI’24!

March 2024 Lux Miranda co-organized the 3rd version of the Workshop: Robo-Identity: Designing for Identity in the Shared World.

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Visiting address

Room 100160, Building 10, Department of Information Technology, New Ångström (Lägerhyddsvägen 1), Uppsala

Travel directions

Contact person: Ginevra Castellano