The Conference at Intelligent Robotics FAIR 2025 will feature multiple tracks showcasing cutting-edge research in robotics, field robotics, ethology-inspired systems, and intelligent technologies. Renowned researchers and industry experts will present breakthrough findings in keynote speeches and presentations, discussing the challenges and opportunities shaping the future.

Naoyuki Kubota

Tokyo Metropolitan University

Talk: TBD

Bio: TBD

Péter Korondi

University of Debrecen

Talk: Organic Human Robot Interaction (O-HRI)
We often hear that a robot cannot have human feelings and a human soul. Of course, this is true, it cannot be human. Even if we could program human emotions, we should not clone humans either biologically or technically. Nevertheless, we expect to be able to converse with robots in a human-like manner, especially since the advent of ChatGPT and large language models. The contradiction can only be resolved if we define robot feelings and a robot-type soul. For verbal conversation between humans and robots, we should develop robot-type nonverbal metacommunication channels. These can be audio-visual signals, small elementary movements that project the intention, the planned movement. Previously, industrial robots worked in a physically or laser-enclosed room, where only robot specialists could enter. Nowadays, with the advent of cobots, industrial robots have also been released from their cages, but with the rise of service and especially social robots, robots have stepped out of the gates of industrial plants. Robots are increasingly encountering people who are not robotics experts, who have no experience in how to communicate with a robot. The presentation focuses on how we can make communication with robots natural (organic) for non-robotics experts. The presentation introduces the basic concept of organic human-robot interaction and its implemented elements. An HRI can be considered an O-HRI if the robot is capable of verbal and non-verbal communication and has the appropriate psychological characteristics for human-human interaction.
The main elements of O-HRI are: Mistakes and Miscalculations in Behaviour; Imperfection in Behaviour; Showing intentions;Non-verbal meta communication and body language; Flow experience; Perceived competencies; Acceptance; Attachment

Bio:Péter Korondi is a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Mechatronics at the University of Debrecen. He is the head of the cognitive and social robotics group. He received his MSc. in Electrical Engineering in 1984. Between 1993 and 1995, he became acquainted with mechatronics and robotics at the Intelligent Mechatronics Laboratory of Professor Hideki Hashimoto at the University of Tokyo. In the early 2000s, he began working with ethologists on eth-robotics. Their main achievement was MOGI Robi, a robot attached to its owner. After the release of ChatGPT, his interest turned to Organic Human-Robot Interaction.
He is an active volunteer of IEEE and IFAC, and was the chairman of the technical committee related to robotics in both organizations for two terms. He organized several IEEE and IFAC conferences as the general chairman, and was the chairman of the robotics track in several cases.
He has given keynote presentations at several IEEE and IFAC conferences on intelligent space and cognitive and ethological robotics.

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