Angelo Cangelosi is Professor of Machine Learning and Robotics at the University of Manchester (UK), co-director and founder of the Manchester Centre for Robotics and AI and leader of the Cognitive Robotics Lab. He was selected for the award of the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced grant (UKRI funded). His research interests are in cognitive and developmental robotics, neural networks, language grounding, human robot-interaction and trust, and robot companions for health and social care. Overall, he has over 400 publications and has secured £40m of research grants as coordinator/PI/co-I, including the ERC Advanced eTALK, the EPSRC CRADLE Prosperity, the US AFRL project CASPER++, and five ongoing Horizon RIA and MSCAs grants. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journals Interaction Studies and IET Cognitive Computation and Systems, and in 2015 was Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Development. He has chaired numerous international conferences, including ICANN2022 Bristol, and ICDL2021 Beijing. His book “Developmental Robotics: From Babies to Robots” (MIT Press) was published in January 2015, and translated in Chinese and Japanese. His latest book “Cognitive Robotics” (MIT Press), coedited with Minoru Asada, was published in 2022 and translated in Chinese in 2025.
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