Tiago Guiomar Ribeiro

I am an eclectic scientist and engineer who’s major pursuit is the connection between arts and intelligent, interactive technology.

My major work has been on robots that interact with people, in various contexts such as entertainment, education, personal- or labour- assistance, etc.
Within those fields, I have accumulated 9 years of expertise in animation and behaviour management technology for autonomous social robots.

Technically my expertise includes programming lower-level software that controls robots, to high-level animation tools and plug-ins that are suitable for non-technical personnel and end-users, such as artists and psychologists, and also all the middleware that is required to integrate such tools and robots with socially-aware artificial intelligence that drives the interaction.

More recently I moved back into the Intelligent Virtual Characters field by joining an award-winning team at Soul Machines, where I’m developing animation systems and technology that allow such agents to convey the same Illusion of Life while interacting with humans in smart environments.