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José Carlos González Dorado

José Carlos González Dorado

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I am the chief technology officer (CTO) and founder of the Inrobics spin-off, as well as researcher at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). I have a Ph. D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the UC3M focused on artificial intelligence and robotics. In 2020 I defended my thesis "Multi-Layered Architectures for Autonomous Systems". Previously, in 2013, I obtained the bachelor's degree in Computer Science from this same university, although I finished my bachelor's thesis about robotics in Germany at the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) university. In 2014 I finished the master's thesis at UC3M, which consisted in the development of the control architecture of a social robot and a 3D sensor to drive rehabilitation sessions for children with upper-limb impairments. This work became into the NAOTherapist project, father of the Inrobics spin-off. It received several accolades like a National Geographic documentary, the 3rd prize of the Santander Yuzz-16 entrepreneurship competition (now Explorer) or being one of the CaixaImpulse Validate-19 projects (as RoboTherapist), among others. In 2017, I was a visitor scholar in the United States in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), working with Prof. Manuela Veloso. My current research interests include control architectures for autonomous robotics, automated planning and machine-learning techniques.
Inrobics

 Automated Planning & Robotics: Inrobics, Intelligent Robotics.
NAOTherapist

 Automated Planning & Robotics: NAOTherapist, Autonomous Social Robotics for Rehabilitation.
Clarc-Echord++

 Automated Planning & Robotics: It focuses on the development of Clarc, a mobile robot designed to assist geriatric patients during Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) procedures. These procedures consist of several tests heavily based on speech and physical postures. The robot guides the patient to perform the tests and gather clinical measures for the clinician. European research project FP7-ICT-601116.
THERAPIST

 Automated Planning & Robotics: Ursus is a humanoid robot with bear form which helps in neuro-rehabilitation therapies for children with cerebral palsy. The main goal of this project is to provide this robot with enough autonomy to supervise the exercises of each therapeutic session and improve its social interaction with the patients. Spanish research project TIN2012-38079.
ADAPTA

 Automated Planning & Robotics: A social robot called Gualzru has to attract people walking in a certain area of an airport or shopping center to show them an adapted promotion depending on detected characteristics of each person, like gender or age.