A special moment at the @ieee-ras-icra.bsky.social today: our PI, Prof. @awykowska.bsky.social, was interviewed for the IEEE RAS Robotics and Automation History Project. This important project documents the history of robotics through the experiences and perspectives of researchers in the field.

🧠 New paper out in Psychological Research! Does feeling in control help us learn? In this study, we investigated how sense of agency influences learning using an artificial grammar learning task. 📖 Read here: shorturl.at/n4aY9 w/ Romina Haxhi, @mmwozniak.bsky.social & @awykowska.bsky.social

🦾 New paper out in Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... w/ Magda Mustile, Kyveli Kompatsiari, Davide De Tommaso, Nicola Severino Russi, Stefano Dafarra, Giacomo Novembre, Daniele Pucci & @awykowska.bsky.social @iitalk.bsky.social

New paper out in iScience 🚀 Does controlling a robot change how honest we are? Read here 👉 www.cell.com/iscience/ful... w/ @mmwozniak.bsky.social, Marina Scattolin, Luca Provenzano, Davide De Tommaso, Salvatore Aglioti, @awykowska.bsky.social @iitalk.bsky.social

🌟 It’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science! On this occasion, our PI Prof. @awykowska.bsky.social Wykowska was interviewed by the European University Association about her journey in academia and the challenges and rewards of being a scientist. Read here 👉 www.eua.eu/our-work/exp...

New paper out in Neuropsychologia! Is human-like sensorimotor coordination enough to elicit joint agency with a humanoid robot? 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... w/ Uma Navare, Veerle Hobbelink, Francesca Ciardo, Kyveli Kompatsiari, Davide De Tommaso & @awykowska.bsky.social

🤖 New paper out in Scientific Reports! How do people perceive the moral values and intentionality of humanoid robots? Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... W/ @serehal.bsky.social, Kinga Ciupinska, Davide De Tommaso, @awykowska.bsky.social @iitalk.bsky.social

🤖 New paper out in Frontiers in Psychology! Can a toy robot support Theory of Mind (ToM) training for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)? Read more here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

New paper out in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics! Can joint attention enhance visual working memory? In this study, we examined whether gaze-based attentional cues support memory automatically, or only when they are reliable and task-relevant. Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

🤖 New paper out in Scientific Reports! What happens to our sense of agency when we unintentionally cause a sad expression in another agent? In this study, we investigated how people experience agency when their actions result in unintended emotional expressions in a humanoid robot (iCub).

🧠 New paper out in Cognition! Can we feel a sense of agency over the actions of an artificial agent, even when we’re not acting ourselves? Read the full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@awykowska.bsky.social, head of the IIT @s4hri.bsky.social unit and coordinator of the IIT Center for Human Technologies, is this year’s winner of the André Mischke Prize. #HumanRobotInteraction #sciencecommunication #policyengagement yacadeuro.org/andre-mischk...

We’re thrilled to share that our PI @awykowska.bsky.social is this year’s winner of the André Mischke Prize by Young Academy of Europe for outstanding contributions to science. The award will be presented at Building Bridges Conference on Oct 17 in Barcelona. 🔗 yacadeuro.org/andre-mischk...

📢 We’re #hiring 2 postdocs to join our research on mental workload in human-robot collaboration! The positions are part of the Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction unit at the @iitalk.bsky.social in Genoa, coordinated by @awykowska.bsky.social Apply here 👉 app.ncoreplat.com/jobposition/...

2 postdoc positions on the topic of cognitive neuroscience methods for studying mental workload in human-robot collaboration

Commitment & contract: Collaborator, temporal contract, up to 16 months Location: IIT CHT – Via Enrico Melen 83, Genova Step into a world of endless possibilities, together let’s leave something...

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New paper out in AI and Ethics! 🦾 How do people react when a humanoid robot makes decisions that challenge our values, such as privacy, freedom, or social norms? Read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This week we are at ESCOP 2025 in Sheffield! ⭐ Here are some highlights from us: Our PI, Prof. @awykowska.bsky.social introduced the symposium "Perception of Artificial Agents as Social or Self-Aware Others", co-organised with Tony Prescott.

#SAVETHEDATE 🇪🇺🗞️"Why fund frontier research? The role of journalism in answering a crucial question for society" 🗓️September 5, 2025 🕙 10:00 a.m. 📍Auditorium, CCT@Morego ➡️ free entry upon registration: forms.office.com/pages/respon... opentalk.iit.it/en/why-fund-...

We enjoyed sharing our research and catching up with the community at IEEE RO-MAN 2025! Our PI @awykowska.bsky.social gave a keynote at the “Movement Matters” workshop on "Joint action with a humanoid: how robot’s behavioural human-likeness affects human cognitive mechanisms".

New paper out in Scientific Reports! 🤖 Can humanoid robots enhance social cognition in children with autism beyond traditional interventions? Read full paper here 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🤖 We’re excited to be part of Living Machines! Our PI, @awykowska.bsky.social will give a plenary talk on “Using robots to understand human cognition” on July 17th. Looking forward to the discussions ahead!

Tony Prescott@tonyjprescott.bsky.social · 2y ago

Delighted to announce that Prof Agniezska Wykowska, head of the Social Cognition in Human-Robot Interaction unit at the Italian Institute of Technology, will give a plenary talk at Living Machines 2025 in Sheffield next July. CfP now open. livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/plenary... #lm2025

Great to be part of #JAMX in Turin and to share our recent work! Many thanks to the organizers and community for the thoughtful discussions throughout the event!

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📢 We’re looking for a postdoc with strong EEG expertise to join our research on neuro-cognitive mechanisms in human-robot interaction in Genoa! Please share! app.ncoreplat.com/jobposition/... @iitalk.bsky.social @awykowska.bsky.social

🆕 New paper in Technology, Mind, Behavior! How does perceiving a robot as intentional shape joint attention? 👉 tmb.apaopen.org/pub/dg8p1kxu...

📢 We’re looking for a postdoc with strong EEG expertise to join our research on neuro-cognitive mechanisms in human-robot interaction in Genoa! Please share! app.ncoreplat.com/jobposition/... @iitalk.bsky.social @awykowska.bsky.social

POSTDOC in Neuro-cognitive mechanisms in human-robot interaction (ID: 2400000Y)

Project: Neuro-cognitive mechanisms in human-robot interaction Commitment & contract: 2 years, temporary Location: Genoa, Italy, via Enrico Melen 83   WHO WE ARE At IIT we work enthusiastically t...

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We’re joining the FutureShots Innovation Festival in Venice tomorrow! Catch us at 16:10 for Human-Robot Interaction Through Human Eyes, a talk by our PI @awykowska.bsky.social, exploring how we assign meaning, emotion and intention to social robots. futureshots.h-farm.com/en

FutureShots - H-FARM’s Innovation Festival

An event about the future and a new renaissance era of innovation through AI, tech, and science: from medicine and robotics to spatial computing, art, and sustainability.

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We are delighted to welcome Prof. Agnieszka Wykowska from the Italian Institute of Technology, who will be presenting a seminar on 'Using humanoid robots to study human cognition', here on Thursday the 22nd of May, at 2pm🧠

We had an inspiring time at the sense of self meeting in London, where we talked about the interpersonal self and sense of agency! Thanks to organisers @tonyjprescott.bsky.social, @awykowska.bsky.social, @sarahgarf.bsky.social, Paul Verschure, and to the @royalsociety.org for hosting

🚨 We’re #hiring a #postdoc to join an exciting joint project to study cognitive load in human-robot collaboration in Genoa! Apply here 👉 app.ncoreplat.com/jobposition/... @iitalk.bsky.social @awykowska.bsky.social

Postdoc - Measuring Cognitive Load in Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks

Commitment & contract: Postdoctoral Researcher – 2 years contract Location: Genoa, Italy, via Enrico Melen 83   Step into a world of endless possibilities, together let’s leave something for the fu...

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New paper out!🦾 How do we experience a sense of agency over others’ actions, including robots? In the study, we examined vicarious agency, asking whether the perceived voluntariness of actions shapes intentional binding (IB), an implicit measure of agency. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper out on Scientific Reports! 🚀 How do people judge intentionality and moral responsibility for robots vs. humans?  Read here -> lnkd.in/dAAtr-Q7