News and Publications

Project news and links

ARC Discovery Grant 2024:
New Monash research will explore policy design to manage growing presence of robots in Australian public spaces

Public event: What next for robots in public space?

Melbourne Knowledge Week exhibition: Meet a Humanoid Robot, May 2021

Monash Robotics website

Robots in Public Space project on the Monash Robotics website

Robots in Public Space project on the Better Governance and Policy website

Publications

Sumartojo S, Lundberg R, Kulić D, Tian L, Carreno‐Medrano P, Mintrom M, Lugli D, Allen A. The robotic production of spatiality: Predictability, partitioning, and connection. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 2022 Sept 12. Link

Sumartojo S, Lundberg R, Tian L, Carreno-Medrano P, Kulić D, Mintrom M. Imagining public space robots of the near-future. Geoforum. 2021 Aug 1;124:99-109. Link

Sumartojo S, Lugli D. Lively robots: robotic technologies in COVID-19. Social & Cultural Geography. 2021 May 6:1-8. Link

Mintrom, M., Sumartojo, S., Kulić, D., Tian, L., Carreno-Medrano, P. and Allen, A., 2021. Robots in public spaces: implications for policy design. Policy Design and Practice, pp.1-16. Link

Tian, L., Carreno-Medrano, P., Allen, A., Sumartojo, S., Mintrom, M., Coronado Zuniga, E., Venture, G., Croft, E. and Kulic, D., 2021, May. Redesigning human-robot interaction in response to robot failures: A participatory design methodology. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-8). Link

Coronado, E., Deuff, D., Carreno-Medrano, P., Tian, L., Kulić, D., Sumartojo, S., Mastrogiovanni, F. and Venture, G., 2021. Towards a Modular and Distributed End-User Development Framework for Human-Robot Interaction. IEEE Access9, pp.12675-12692. Link

Tian, L., Carreno-Medrano, P., Sumartojo, S., Mintrom, M., Coronado, E., Venture, G. and Kulić, D., 2020, November. User expectations of robots in public spaces: A co-design methodology. In International Conference on Social Robotics (pp. 259-270). Springer, Cham. Link

Sumartojo, S and Lugli, D R Kulic, D, Tian, L, Mintrom, M, Carreno-Medrano, P and Allen, A (2020) Robotic logics of public space, Mediapolis.

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