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Eduardo Castello Ferrer

Former Research Affiliate
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  • City Science

Eduardo is a Marie Curie Fellow in the Human Dynamics and the City Science groups at the MIT Media Lab.  He is working with Prof. Alex ('Sandy') Pentland in order to explore the combination of robots and blockchain technology.  Eduardo  received his B.Sc.(Hons) Intelligent Systems from Portsmouth University (UK) and his M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Robotics Engineering from Osaka University (Japan). Currently, Eduardo is also working with Kent Larson, Luis Alonso and Arnaud Gringard to develop new solutions for distributed robotic systems in urban environments.

Publication Research

Gaka-chu: a self-employed autonomous robot artist

E. C. Ferrer, I. Berman, A. Kapitonov, V. Manaenko, M. Chernyaev and P. Tarasov, "Gaka-Chu: A Self-Employed Autonomous Robot Artist," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, United Kingdom, 2023, pp. 11583-11589, doi: 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160866.
Project Research

Tangible Swarm: see the unseen

Tangible Swarm is a tool that displays relevant information about a robotics system (e.g., multi-robot, swarm, etc.) in real time whil…
Project Research

Blockchain: A new framework for robotic swarm systems

Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
Publication Research

If blockchain is the solution, robot security is the problem

E. C. Ferrer, If blockchain is the solution, robot security is the problem, Frontiers In Blockchain, Vol 6, 2023
Project Research

Urban Swarms

Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality o…
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Secure and secret cooperation in robot swarms

E. C. Ferrer, T. Hardjono, A. S. Pentland, M. Dorigo, Secure and secret cooperation in robot swarms. Sci. Robot. 6, eabf1538 (2021).
Event Events

Symposium on Blockchain for Robotic Systems—2018

A symposium bringing together key stakeholders to discuss the possibilities of blockchain technology in robotics.
Project Research

BASIC: Blockchained Agent-based Simulator for Cities

Autonomous vehicles (AVs), drones, and other types of robots will revolutionize our way of traveling and understanding urban space. In orde…
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Editorial: Proceedings of the First Symposium on Blockchain and Robotics, MIT Media Lab, December 5th 2018

Castelló Ferrer, E., Hardjono, T., & Pentland, A. (2019). Editorial: Proceedings of the First Symposium on Blockchain and Robotics, MIT Media Lab, 5 December 2018. Ledger, 4. doi:https://doi.org/10.5195/ledger.2019.179
Project Research

RoboChain: A secure data-sharing framework for human-robot interaction

A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at m…
Publication Research

Robotic Services for New Paradigm Smart Cities Based on Decentralized Technologies

Kapitonov, A., Lonshakov, S., Berman, I., Castelló Ferrer, E., Bonsignorio, F., Bulatov, V., & Svistov, A. (2019). Robotic Services for New Paradigm Smart Cities Based on Decentralized Technologies. Ledger, 4. doi:https://doi.org/10.5195/ledger.2019.177
Publication Research

Managing Byzantine Robots via Blockchain Technology in a Swarm Robotics Collective Decision Making Scenario

Volker Strobel, Eduardo Castelló Ferrer, and Marco Dorigo. 2018. Managing Byzantine Robots via Blockchain Technology in a Swarm Robotics Collective Decision Making Scenario. In Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, July 10–15, 2018, IFAAMAS