Belinda J Dunstan—Belinda is the Principal Lead for the UNSW Creative Robotics Lab, and a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture at the University of New South Wales, on Gadigal country. Belinda is the author and Director of the Minor in Social Robotics for the UNSW Bachelor of Design, teaching a critically engaged and materially focused approach to the design of social robots. Recently, she was the lead editor of Cultural Robotics: Social Robots and their Emergent Cultural Ecologies (Springer, 2023). Her current research interests are social robot morphology, critical futuring, technology ethics, and cultural robotics. Belinda has published with first quartile publishers such as SAGE Journal, Taylor & Francis and Springer and presented at T1 international robotics conferences such as SIGGRAPH, RO-MAN and ICRA.

Jeffrey TKV Koh—Jeffrey earned his PhD in Integrative Sciences and Engineering from the National University Singapore, focusing on human-computer and human-robot interaction. His research has been published in venues such as UBICOMP, CSCW, IEEE Haptics Symposium, SIGGRAPH, SIGDOC, INTERACT, ISMAR and RO-MAN, and has patents in the US, Singapore and Japan for his research. Jeffrey is currently the Head of Design Factory @ SIT, is an Associate Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology and is a pioneering researcher in Cultural Robotics.

Hooman Samani is a creative roboticist specialising in creative interdisciplinary AI-driven social service robotics. He is a Reader in Creative Robotics at the University of the Arts London (UAL), Creative Computing Institute (CCI). He is also the course leader of creative robotics (BSc) at UAL CCI, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Hooman has contributed to more than 100 publications in the field of robotics, comprising peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, and books. His books explore emerging fields of robotics, including Creative Robotics, Robotics for Pandemics, Cognitive Robotics, and Lovotics: Loving Robots.

Müge Belek Fialho Teixeira is a creative maker, designer, and transdisciplinary researcher, specialized in advanced manufacturing, digital fabrication, and parametric design. In her career, she has worked with prominent architectural firms such as Zaha Hadid Architects, taught at several institutions including Queensland University of Technology (QUT), University of Queensland, Istanbul Technical University, and Architectural Association Visiting Schools. She also has multiple publications in peer reviewed books and journals, has given interviews, presented in many international conferences such as eCAADe and CAADRIA. Her work has been exhibited in international biennales such as Rotterdam and Istanbul, and multiple exhibitions such as SHErobots. Awarded in multiple competitions and events such as WIT (Women in Technology) on the use of novel digital technologies in creative and sustainable practices in architectural design, Müge has been part of research teams with fundings from ARC, European Union, Building 4.0 CRC, IMCRC (Innovative Manufacturing Corporate Research Centre), and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. Currently, she is a Design Lead at ARM Hub (Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Hub), chief investigator and program lead in Australian Cobotics Centre and an Associate Professor in the QUT Faculty of Engineering, School of Architecture and Built Environment Interior Architecture.