Copyright '2020 for the individual papers by the papers' authors. Copyright '2020 for the volume as a collection by its editors. This volume and its papers are published under the Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) The goal of the Italian workshop series on Arti cial Intelligence and RObotics (AIRO) is to present, discuss and assess recent advances in the deployment of Arti cial Intelligence (AI) methods in Robotics. AI principles and methods play a crucial role in several areas of the robotics research (e.g. eld, service, social robotics, etc.) and are pervasively exploited at various levels of robot architectures for di erent purposes: sensing and perception, reasoning and decision, learning, intelligent control, adaptive and social behavior, veri cation and validation methods, etc. Starting from these diverse -yet intertwined- research elds, the AIRO workshop series aims at providing an established long-term Italian forum where the AI community and the Robotics community may nd an interesting and stimulating common ground.
This volume contains the proceedings of the seventh edition of the AIRO workshop1, which was held on November 26th, 2020 in conjuction with the 19th International Conference of the Italian Association for Arti cial Intelligence (AIxIA 2020). Due to COVID-19, the AIRO 2020 workshop (along with all the event of AIxIA 2020) was virtually accessible \anywhere" in the world through the internet.
This edition of the AIRO workshop accepted 10 papers involving 45 authors. The program was structured into four sections Service and Industrial Robotics, Social Robotics, Assistive Robotics, and Planning and Scheduling. The contributions covered several aspects of AI and Robotics in the areas of Service, Industrial, Social, Assistive Robotics and mainly concerned with the following research topics: Human-Robot Collaboration, Robot Competition, Autonomous Conversation, Computational creativity, BCI & Neurorobotics, Social Interaction and Assistance, Dialogue, Robot Navigation, Learning and Explainable AI, AI Planning and Scheduling, Multi-robot task allocation.
The workshop program included also the keynote talk of Lorenzo Jamone, Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, UK, titled Toward intelligent robots: haptics and dexterity and a Panel Session on Veri cation and Anomaly Detection for Intelligent Robots with speakers: Francesco Amigoni (Associate Professor, Politecnico di Milano), Davide Azzalini (Doctoral student, Politecnico di Milano), Domenico Bloisi (Associate Professor, Universita della Basilicata), Giuseppe Di Luna (Research fellow, Universita di Roma), Alessandro Farinelli (Full Professor at University of Verona), Luca Iocchi (Full Professor, Sapienza, Universita di Roma).
The research topics and the results collected in these proceedings illustrate the work of an active and multidisciplinary research community and con rm the growing interest for a forum where AI and Robotics researchers can nd a common ground.
Alberto Finzi, Alberto Castellini, Luca Buoncompagni, Salvatore Anzalone Workshop Organizers 1 https://www.airo-aixia.it/airo2020/
Alberto Finzi University of Naples \Federico II" Alberto Castellini University of Verona Luca Buoncompagni University of Genoa
Salvatore Anzalone Universite Paris 8