Research Fellowship
The Peerbots Research Fellowship is a crucial part of Peerbots' commitment to raising the floor of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) research and getting more experts involved in HRI research. We aim to support researchers centering people, and specifically experts, in how robots are researched, developed, and used. The fellowship funds an early career researcher or researcher in training to complete at least one study and submit a publication to a leading academic venue.
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Applications for the 2025 Peerbots Research Fellowship are now closed.
Meet The Fellows
2025
Dylan Thomas Doyle
Dylan Thomas Doyle is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder. As an HRI researcher, Dylan’s work focuses on values-based design for robots and the impacts of socio-technical contexts on the perception of robot identity. Outside of research, Dylan is the Director of the AI for All Tomorrows media collective and podcast. Dylan received his PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder, Masters of Divinity from Columbia University, and BA from Sarah Lawrence College. Prior to a career in technology research, Dylan served as a Unitarian Universalist minister and hospital chaplain.
Fellowship Focus
Dylan will be conducting a qualitative study examining the adoption of expressive faces, like the Peerbots face, for humanoid robots in industry and academia. Using speculative design methods, Dylan will focus on understanding the needs that ‘decision-makers’ are taking into consideration about the facial expression of the robots they are designing.
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