Prof. Dr. Kai O. Arras

Assistant Professor
DFG Junior Research Group Leader
Head, Social Robotics Laboratory

Tel
+49 (0) 761 203 979 46 office
+49 (0) 761 203 75 20 fax
+49 (0) 160 699 75 15 mobile

Email

Address
Building 074, Room 015
Social Robotics Laboratory
Department of Computer Science
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Georges-Köhler-Allee 074
D-79110 Freiburg
Germany

Selection of robots I built, co-built, and worked with: Robox, the Ducks, Pygmalion 0, Daryl, Daum AGV, Pygmalion, Robuter, Butler, Robot Socle Rose, Mops.

Short CV

• 2013 Coordinator of SPENCER (EU FP7-2011-2.1)
• 2010 Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor), Computer Science Department, University of Freiburg
• 2009 Workshop chair "People Detection and Tracking", ICRA 2009
• 2008 DFG Junior Research Group Leader, Founder Social Robotics Laboratory, University of Freiburg
• 2007 Senior Research Scientist, Evolution Robotics Inc., Pasadena, CA, USA
• 2006 Post-doctoral research associate, Autonomous Intelligent Systems Group, University of Freiburg, Germany
• 2004 Managing director, Nurobot Automation and Artefacts GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland
• 2003 Post-doctoral research associate, Center for Autonomous Systems, KTH Stockholm, Sweden
• 2003 Dr. ès science degree from EPFL, Switzerland
• 2002 Workshop chair "Robots in Exhibitions", IROS 2002
• 2001 Project co-leader Expo.02 project, Switzerland
• 2001 Guest researcher, Robotics and Real-Time Group, University of Zaragoza, Spain
• 1997 PhD student, co-establishing the Autonomous Systems Lab as first lab member, EPFL, Switzerland
• 1996 Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland