NEWS    Diego Romeres Delivers Invited Talks at Fraunhofer Italia and the University of Padua

Date released: July 28, 2025

  •  NEWS    Diego Romeres Delivers Invited Talks at Fraunhofer Italia and the University of Padua
  • Date:

    July 16, 2025 - July 18, 2025

  • Description:

    MERL researcher Diego Romeres was invited to present MERL's latest research at two institutions in Italy this July, focusing on human-robot collaboration and LLM-driven assembly systems.

    On July 16th, Dr. Romeres delivered a talk titled “Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly” at Fraunhofer Italia – Innovation Engineering Center (EIC) in Bolzano. His presentation showcased research on human-robot collaboration for efficient and flexible assembly processes. Fraunhofer Italia EIC is a non-profit research institute focused on enabling digital and sustainable transformation through applied innovation in close collaboration with both public and private sectors.

    Two days later, on July 18th, Dr. Romeres was hosted by the University of Padua, one of Europe’s oldest and most renowned universities. His invited lecture, “Robot Assembly through Human Collaboration & Large Language Models”, explored how artificial intelligence can enhance human-robot synergy in complex assembly tasks.

  • External Link:

    https://www.fraunhofer.it/en/events/trendtalk03.html

  • MERL Contact:
  • Research Areas:

    Artificial Intelligence, Control, Machine Learning, Optimization, Robotics, Human-Computer Interaction

    •  De Lazzari, D., Terreran, M., Giacomuzzo, G., Jain, S., Falco, P., Carli, R., Romeres, D., "PACE: Proactive Assistance in Human-Robot Collaboration through Action-Completion Estimation", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2025.
      BibTeX TR2025-064 PDF Video
      • @inproceedings{DeLazzari2025may,
      • author = {De Lazzari, Davide and Terreran, Matteo and Giacomuzzo, Giulio and Jain, Siddarth and Falco, Pietro and Carli, Ruggero and Romeres, Diego},
      • title = {{PACE: Proactive Assistance in Human-Robot Collaboration through Action-Completion Estimation}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      • year = 2025,
      • month = may,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-064}
      • }
    •  Chen, Y., Jha, D.K., Tomizuka, M., Romeres, D., "FDPP: Fine-tune Diffusion Policy with Human Preference", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2025.
      BibTeX TR2025-053 PDF Video
      • @inproceedings{Chen2025may,
      • author = {Chen, Yuxin and Jha, Devesh K. and Tomizuka, Masayoshi and Romeres, Diego},
      • title = {{FDPP: Fine-tune Diffusion Policy with Human Preference}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      • year = 2025,
      • month = may,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-053}
      • }
    •  Giacomuzzo, G., Terreran, M., Jain, S., Romeres, D., "DECAF: a Discrete-Event based Collaborative Human-Robot Framework for Furniture Assembly", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), DOI: 10.1109/​IROS58592.2024.10802728, October 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-138 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Giacomuzzo2024oct,
      • author = {Giacomuzzo, Giulio and Terreran, Matteo and Jain, Siddarth and Romeres, Diego},
      • title = {{DECAF: a Discrete-Event based Collaborative Human-Robot Framework for Furniture Assembly}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      • year = 2024,
      • month = oct,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10802728},
      • issn = {2153-0866},
      • isbn = {979-8-3503-7770-5},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-138}
      • }
    •  Ota, K., Jha, D.K., Jain, S., Yerazunis, W.S., Corcodel, R., Shukla, Y., Bronars, A., Romeres, D., "Autonomous Robotic Assembly: From Part Singulation to Precise Assembly", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems., DOI: 10.1109/​IROS58592.2024.10802423, October 2024, pp. 13525-13532.
      BibTeX TR2024-133 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Ota2024oct,
      • author = {Ota, Kei and Jha, Devesh K. and Jain, Siddarth and Yerazunis, William S. and Corcodel, Radu and Shukla, Yash and Bronars, Antonia and Romeres, Diego},
      • title = {{Autonomous Robotic Assembly: From Part Singulation to Precise Assembly}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.},
      • year = 2024,
      • pages = {13525--13532},
      • month = oct,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10802423},
      • issn = {2153-0866},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-133}
      • }
    •  Raghunathan, A., Jha, D.K., Romeres, D., "PYROBOCOP: Python-based Robotic Control & Optimization Package for Manipulation and Collision Avoidance", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, DOI: 10.1109/​TASE.2024.3365637, pp. 1-16, June 2024.
      BibTeX TR2024-087 PDF
      • @article{Raghunathan2024jun,
      • author = {{{Raghunathan, Arvind and Jha, Devesh K. and Romeres, Diego}}},
      • title = {{{PYROBOCOP: Python-based Robotic Control \& Optimization Package for Manipulation and Collision Avoidance}}},
      • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering},
      • year = 2024,
      • pages = {1--16},
      • month = jun,
      • doi = {10.1109/TASE.2024.3365637},
      • issn = {1545-5955},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-087}
      • }