Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
Group Leader
Leibniz Universität Hannover
L3S Research Center
Appelstrasse 4
30167 Hannover, Germany
[email protected]
https://www.l3s.de/
I am a robotics and artificial intelligence researcher with a passion for applied robotics and automation research. I am particularly interested in academic/industrial partnerships for the development of knowledge-intensive R&D solutions for socially relevant challenges including welfare, agriculture, disaster relief and humanitarian demining.
I have always advocated for a holistic development of robots, i.e. considering both hardware, software alike, which I believe perfectly aligns with the concepts of embodied and developmental robotics. Further, I also believe that robotic development should be human-centric fully embracing its impact on society and the environment. Taking all of this into consideration, I regard robotics a highly multidisciplinary endeavour which requires not only engineers from different disciplines but also natural sciences and humanities.
My list of research interests is diverse; however, I believe that they are well aligned towards this holistic view of robot development for socially relevant challenges. My most direct research interests include
- Cognitive Systems
- Bio-inspired Perceptual Systems & Signal Processing
- Neurorobotics
- Autonomous and Intelligent Systems
- Service Robots
Recent Projects
Latest Publications
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ACROSS: A Deformation-Based Cross-Modal Representation for Robotic Tactile Perception
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). pp. 1-8, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 2025
Zai El Amri, Wadhah; Kuhlmann, Malte; Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
doi, url, ©2024 The Authors., PDF, bibtex, key: ZaiElAmri2025DeformationBased, supplementary material,
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Continual Domain Randomization
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). pp. 4965-4972, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Oct 2024
Josifovski, Josip; Auddy, Sayantan; Malmir, Mohammadhossein; Piater, Justus; Knoll, Alois; Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
doi, url, ©2024 The Authors., PDF, bibtex, key: Josifovski2024Continual, supplementary material, ISSN: 2153-0866
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Transferring Tactile Data Across Sensors
40th Anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA@40). pp. 1540-1542, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Sep 2024
Zai El Amri, Wadhah; Kuhlmann, Malte; Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
doi, url, ©2024 The Authors., PDF, bibtex, key: ZaiElAmri2024Transferring,
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Optimizing BioTac Simulation for Realistic Tactile Perception
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). pp. 1-8, Yokohama, Japan, Jul 2024
Zai El Amri, Wadhah; Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
doi, url, ©2024 The Authors., PDF, bibtex, key: ZaiElAmri2024Optimizing, supplementary material, source code, ISSN: 2161-4407
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A Biomimetic Fingerprint for Robotic Tactile Sensing
International Symposium on Robotics (ISR Europe). pp. 112-118, Stuttgart, Germany, Sep 2023
Juiña Quilachamín, Oscar Alberto; Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
doi, url, ©2023 The Authors., PDF, bibtex, key: JuinaQuilachamin2023Fingerprint, supplementary material,
Latest News
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Co-organizer: Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics (LACORO 2025)
08 Dec 2025 | COMMITTEE, SUMMER SCHOOL, ORGANIZATION,
Co-organizer of the Latin American Summer School on Robotics (LACORO 2025) to be held in Rancagua, Chile between the 8th and the 12th of December 2025.
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Co-organizer: Latin American Summer School on Cognitive Robotics (LACORO 2024)
09 Dec 2024 | COMMITTEE, SUMMER SCHOOL, ORGANIZATION,
Co-organizer of the Latin American Summer School on Robotics (LACORO 2024) to be held in Rancagua, Chile between the 9th and the 13th of December 2024.
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Program Committee: Workshop on Human-aligned Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Agents and Robots
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
13 May 2024 | PROGRAM COMMITTEE, COMMITTEE, TECHNICAL COMMITTEE, WORKSHOP, CONFERENCE,
Member of the program/technical committee of the Workshop on Human-aligned Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Agents and Robots held in Yokohama, Japan, on 13th of May 2024. Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
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Autonomous Robots - Top 10 Downloaded Articles 2023
05 Apr 2024 | RESEARCH, IMPACT,
I am glad to see our article listed among the Top 10 Downloaded Articles 2023 of the Autonomous Robots Journal from Springer Nature. I want to thank Sibel, Josip, and Lorenzo for the excellent teamwork.
Navarro-Guerrero, N., Toprak, S., Josifovski, J., & Jamone, L. (2023). Visuo-Haptic Object Perception for Robots: An Overview. Autonomous Robots, 47(4), 377–403. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-023-10091-y
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Seminar: Naturkundliche Vereinigung Langenhagen e.V. (NVL)
Hanover, Germany
25 Jan 2024 | OUTREACH, TALK, SEMINAR,
I co-hosted a seminar for the Naturkundliche Vereinigung Langenhagen e.V. (NVL) about “Künstliche Intelligenz und aktueller Forschungsstand im Forschungszentrum L3S Hannover”.