Telepresence Robotics

Telepresence robots are teleoperated robotic systems that allow a user to virtually visit a remote place and interact with the environment through its sensorial and motor capabilities.

The Giraff telepresence robot. The visitor embodies the robot simulating a real visit to the elder person.

Telepresence refers to a combination of technologies that enables a person to be virtually present and to interact in a remote place. Most typical telepresence tools nowadays are videoconferences applications running on personal computers. Among others, Skype, for instance, permits distant users to chat and visually interact.

An interesting variant of telepresence is the so-called robotic telepresence. Robotic telepresence relies on the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) onto robotic platforms, providing the user with a higher degree of interaction with the remote environment. Through robotic telepresence, a distant user can embody a robot and, in this way, s/he can exploit its motor and sensorial abilities.Recently, telepresence robots have found a significant niche of applicability in the social interaction for the elderly given the particular characteristics of this segment of the society. Elder population is a weak and increasing group of the current societies that suffers from isolation and exclusion risk, a problem that seems to become even more severe in the future.

Under this perspective, robotic telepresence is a promising tool that strives for motivating social communication with relatives and friends, helping in mitigating the loneliness of the elderly population, and thus, contributing to improve their quality life.

The Mapir lab is actively working on telepresence robots under European projects like ExCITE and Giraff Plus. In these projects different solutions to endow telepresence robots with higher and safe levels of autonomy are studies.

Journals (7)

2026

J. Monroy, P. Ojeda, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

A Physics-Informed Gaussian Markov Random Field Framework for Indoor Airflow Field Estimation

Building and Environment, vol. 303, pp. 114957, 2026. Q1 · T1

2024

M. Luperto, M. Romeo, F. Lunardini, J. Monroy, D. Hernandez-Garcia, C. Abbate, A. Cangelosi, S. Ferrante, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez, N. Basilico, N.A. Borghese

Exploring the Viability of Socially Assistive Robots for At-Home Cognitive Monitoring: Potential and Limitations

International Journal of Social Robotics, 2024. Q2 · T2

2022

M. Luperto, J. Monroy, J. Renoux, F. Lunardini, N. Basilico, M. Bulgheroni, A. Cangelosi, M. Cesari, M. Cid, A. Ianes, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez, A. Kounoudes, D. Mari, V.A. Prisacariu, A. Savanovic, S. Ferrante, N.A. Borghese

Integrating Social Assistive Robots, IoT, Virtual Communities and Smart Objects to Assist at-Home Independently Living Elders: the MoveCare Project

International Journal of Social Robotics, 2022, ISSN: 1875-4791. Q2 · T2

M. Luperto, J. Monroy, F.A. Moreno, F. Lunardini, J. Renoux, A. Krpic, C. Galindo, S. Ferrante, N. Basilico, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez, N.A. Borghese

Seeking At-Home Long-Term Autonomy of Assistive Mobile Robots through the Integration with an IoT-based Monitoring System

Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), 2022. Q2 · T2

M. Luperto, M. Romeo, J. Monroy, J. Renoux, A. Vuono, F.A. Moreno, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez, N. Basilico, N.A. Borghese

User Feedback and Remote Supervision for Assisted Living with Mobile Robots: a Field Study in Long-Term Autonomy

Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), 2022. Q2 · T2

2017

F. Melendez-Fernandez, C. Galindo, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

A web-based solution for robotic telepresence

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, vol. 14, no. 6, 2017.

A. Orlandini, A. Kristoffersson, L. Almquist, P. Björkman, A. Cesta, G. Cortellessa, C. Galindo, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez, K. Gustafsson, A. Kiselev, A. Loufti, F. Melendez-Fernandez, M. Nilsson, L. Odens Hedman, E. Odontidou, J.R. Ruiz-Sarmiento, M. Scherlund, L. Tiberio, S.V. Rump, S. Coradeschi

ExCITE Project: A Review of Forty-two Months of Robotic Telepresence Technology Evolution

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 2017. Q4 · T3

Book Chapters (4)

2016

F.A. Moreno, C. Galindo, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

Enhancing smart environments with mobile robots

Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, vol. 10070, Springer International Publishing, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-319-48798-4.

F. Melendez-Fernandez, C. Galindo, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

An assisted navigation method for telepresence robots

10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 10069, Springer, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-319-48745-8.

J.R. Ruiz-Sarmiento, C. Galindo, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

Probability and Common-Sense: Tandem Towards Robust Robotic Object Recognition in Ambient Assisted Living

10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, vol. 10070, Springer, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-319-48798-4.

2014

S. Coradeschi, A. Cesta, G. Cortellessa, L. Coraci, C. Galindo, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez, L. Karlsson, A. Forsberg, F. S., F. Furfari, A. Loufti, A. Orlandini, F. Palumbo, F. Pecora, A. Stimec, S.V. Rump, J. Ulberg, B. Otslund

GiraffPlus: A System for Monitoring Activities and Physiological Parameters and Promoting Social Interaction for Elderly

pp. 261–271, Springer, 2014.

Conferences (7)

2019

M. Luperto, J. Monroy, J.R. Ruiz-Sarmiento, F.A. Moreno, N. Basilico, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez, N.A. Borghese

Towards Long-Term Deployment of a Mobile Robot for at-Home Ambient Assisted Living of the Elderly

European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), Prague, Czech Republic, 2019.

2015

A. Kiselev, A. Kristoffersson, F. Melendez-Fernandez, C. Galindo, A. Loufti, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez, S. Coradeschi

Evaluation of Using Semi-Autonomy Features in Mobile Robotic Telepresence Systems

7th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS) and the 7th IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM), 2015.

2013

S. Coradeschi, A. Cesta, G. Cortellessa, L. Coraci, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez, L. Karlsson, F. Furfari, A. Loufti, A. Orlandini, F. Palumbo, F. Pecora, S.V. Rump, A. Stimec, J. Ulberg, B. Otslund

GiraffPlus: Combining social interaction and long term monitoring for promoting independent living

Human System Interaction (HSI), pp. 578-585, Gdansk, Poland, 2013, ISBN: 978-1-4673-5635-0.

J. Gonzalez-Jimenez, C. Galindo, F. Melendez-Fernandez, J.R. Ruiz-Sarmiento

Building and Exploiting Maps in a Telepresence Robotic Application

10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Reykjavic, Iceland, 2013.

J. Gonzalez-Jimenez, C. Galindo, C. Gutierrez

Evaluation of a Telepresence Robot for the Elderly. A Spanish Experience

5th. Int. Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation (IWINAC), 2013.

2012

J. Gonzalez-Jimenez, C. Galindo, J.R. Ruiz-Sarmiento

Technical Improvements of the Giraff Telepresence Robot Based on Users’ Evaluation

2012 IEEE RO-MAN: The 21st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2012.

2010

S. Coradeschi, A. Cesta, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez, A. Loufti, S.V. Rump

ExCITE: Enabling Social Interaction through Embodiment

AALIANCE conference, Malaga, Spain, 2010.

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