This workshop stems from the Fit for Medical Robotics (https://www.fit4medrob.it/) project, an initiative funded by Italian MUR to foster research activities in technological assistance and rehabilitation. In Fit4MedRob, the integration of AI and Robotics plays a crucial role. Indeed, among the main missions of the project the goal of fostering "Next Generation Components" foresees the development of new intelligent interfaces and AI algorithms to improve the interpretation of users' intentions and to implement safer and richer interactions between humans and robots. Therefore, a workshop co-located with AIxIA 2024 seems to us a natural venue where the first research results can be presented and disseminated.
This volume contains the papers presented at the Workshop on Advanced AI Methods and Interfaces for Human-Centered Assistive and Rehabilitation Robotics (a Fit4MedRob event), held within the XXIII Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2024), November 25-28th, 2024, Bolzano, Italy. There were 9 short papers were accepted for this volume. An invited talk was presented by Laura Fiorini (University of Florence, Italy) entitled "Advanced Cognitive and Physical Stimulation using Socially Assistive Robots".