Antonio Paolillo is a Senior Researcher at IDSIA, USI-SUPSI, leading social human-robot interaction research. With a Ph.D. from Sapienza, he hold roles at EPFL, Idiap (Switzerland) and CNRS (France and Japan). He focuses on intuitive, adaptive robotics using AI, machine learning and control, contributing to research projects and serving as editor and workshop chair.

Victor Klemm is a Swiss roboticist and PhD candidate at ETH Zurich’s Robotic Systems Lab, supervised by Prof. Marco Hutter and Prof. Roland Siegwart. His research focuses on advancing design and control of wheeled-legged robots by combining deep reinforcement learning with optimization-based methods, enabling agile and versatile robotic mobility.

Lesya Hendrix is a robotics founder and CEO of Spacer Robotics, leading innovation at the intersection of robotics, construction, and space. Previously with Tesla and Nuro, she has launched factories, scaled teams, and built autonomous systems across three continents. Today, she’s focused on creating the physical-AI robots that will construct the infrastructure of the future.