Carme Torras

Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC, Professor of Research

Speaker Bio

Carme Torras (www.iri.upc.edu/people/torras) is a mathematician, PhD in computer science, and research professor at the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (CSIC-UPC), where she leads a research group on assistive robotics.


In 2020, she received two National Research Awards, the Catalan and the Spanish ones, for her contributions to intelligent and social robotics, and in 2024 she was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi.


Committed to the promotion of technoethics, her novels La mutació sentimental and Enxarxats —both Ictineu awards— and the collection of short stories Estimades màquines address ethical dilemmas raised by robotic assistants, AI and social networks, and have been used to teach courses on Ethics in AI and Social Robotics.


She is vice-president of the CSIC Ethics Committee and a member of the Observatory of Ethics in Artificial Intelligence of Catalonia.


 

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