Carme Torras Genís

Carme Torras Genís is a Research Professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), affiliated with the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics (IRI) in Barcelona and the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). Her career spans over three decades, focusing on robotics, neurocomputing, and artificial intelligence with applications in healthcare and deformable object manipulation.

• M.Sc. in Mathematics (University of Barcelona, 1978)
• M.Sc. in Computer Science (University of Massachusetts, 11981)
• Ph.D. in Computer Science (UPC, 1984)

Research Interests:

• Robotic manipulation of deformable objects (especially textiles)
• Neurocomputing and machine learning for robotic control
• Human-robot interaction and assistive robotics
• Computational topology for cloth state representation
• Ethics in social robotics and AI
• Medical applications of robotics for neuromuscular disease assessment

Scientific Leadership:

• ERC Advanced Grant recipient (2016)
• IEEE and EurAI Fellow
• Coordinator of Horizon Europe project SoftEnable and former ERC project CLOTHILDE
• Editorial leadership in IEEE Transactions on Robotics and multiple journals
• Active in ethics committees and AI policy advisory boards
• Advisory Committee of Ethics in AI (Catalan Government)
• Vice-President of CSIC Ethics Committee
• Member of Royal Academy of Engineering (Spain)