Anaís Garrell Zulueta

Professora Agregada


Vice-Director


Subline:

Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems


E-mail agarrell (at) iri.upc.edu

Phone 93 4017800

Web 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.

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  • F. Gebelli, A. Garrell Zulueta, S. Lemaignan and R. Ros. Adapting explanations’ level of detail in a longitudinal in-the-wild office delivery robot: Ongoing results, 2026 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2026, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, ACM/IEEE.

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  • V. Bo, A. Garrell Zulueta and A. Sanfeliu. Fast or accurate? How intention-recognition models shape human perception of a mobile robot, 2026 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2026, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, pp. 502-506, ACM/IEEE.

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  • E.J. Bejarano, V. Bo, A. Sanfeliu and A. Garrell Zulueta. Perception–awareness–decision: Socially-aware robot navigation and interaction, 2026 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2026, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, pp. 258-262, ACM/IEEE.

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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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