Dr. Néstor García Hidalgo

Dr. Néstor García received the B.S. degree with honors in Industrial Engineering and the Ph.D. degree with honors in Automatic Control, Robotics and Computer Vision from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2015 and 2019, respectively. He joined Eurecat in 2018 and currently leads research activities in robotic manipulation, with a focus on task and motion planning, human-robot interaction, multi-robot cooperation, and robot learning. He has participated in and technically led several European and national R&D projects in robotics and is currently the Coordinator of GRAIL (Generative AI for Robotics & Industrial Automation), a European initiative focused on developing foundation models for robotics and their deployment in industrial environments. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3782-1745