2026 Angelo Cangelosi: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	53	3379	3234	224	208	409	11235

Overview

Angelo Cangelosi is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research broadly spans the fields of Computer Science and Psychology, with a notable focus on the intersection of artificial intelligence and human behavioral development.

Their work covers several subfields, including:

Artificial Intelligence
Social Psychology
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Control and Systems Engineering

Key research topics addressed by Angelo Cangelosi include:

Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Child and Animal Learning Development
Robotics and Automated Systems
Robot Manipulation and Learning
Face Recognition and Analysis
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
Hand Gesture Recognition Systems

Their recent papers demonstrate an emphasis on human-robot collaboration, educational impacts of AI, and the psychological dimensions of robot interaction. These include:

"Human-robot collaboration and machine learning: A systematic review of recent research" (2022) published in Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
"Artificial intelligence and human behavioral development: A perspective on new skills and competences acquisition for the educational context" (2023) in Computers in Human Behavior
"A Robot Is Not Worth Another: Exploring Children's Mental State Attribution to Different Humanoid Robots" (2020) in Frontiers in Psychology
"Shall I Trust You? From Child-Robot Interaction to Trusting Relationships" (2020) in Frontiers in Psychology
"The Challenges and Opportunities of Human-Centered AI for Trustworthy Robots and Autonomous Systems" (2021) in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems

Frequent co-authors of Angelo Cangelosi include:

Xiaofeng Liu
Jie Li
Marta Romeo
Federico Tavella
Federico Manzi

Their research has been published in various venues, with repeated contributions to:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
International Journal of Social Robotics
SSRN Electronic Journal
IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Angelo Cangelosi has also authored books published by leading academic publishers:

Cognitive Systems and Information Processing (2023), Springer Science+Business Media
Sociomateriality in Children with Typical and/or Atypical Development (2021), Frontiers Media

Best Publications

Simulating the evolution of language

Angelo Cangelosi;Domenico Parisi

653
Citations
Developmental Robotics: From Babies to Robots

Angelo Cangelosi;Matthew Schlesinger

466
Citations
The Adaptive Advantage of Symbolic Theft Over Sensorimotor Toil: Grounding Language in Perceptual Categories

Angelo Cangelosi;Stevan Harnad

341
Citations
The Emergence of a 'Language' in an Evolving Population of Neural Networks

Angelo Cangelosi;Domenico Parisi

318
Citations
The 2018 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems

R Polvara;M Patacchiola;S Sharma;J Wan

313
Citations
The mechanics of embodiment: a dialog on embodiment and computational modeling.

Giovanni Pezzulo;Lawrence W. Barsalou;Angelo Cangelosi;Martin H. Fischer

282
Citations
Human-Robot Collaboration and Machine Learning: A Systematic Review of Recent Research.

Francesco Semeraro;Alexander Griffiths;Angelo Cangelosi

273
Citations
Computational Grounded Cognition: a new alliance between grounded cognition and computational modeling.

Giovanni Pezzulo;Lawrence W. Barsalou;Angelo Cangelosi;Martin H. Fischer

260
Citations
Integration of Action and Language Knowledge: A Roadmap for Developmental Robotics

A Cangelosi;G Metta;G Sagerer;S Nolfi

236
Citations
An Embodied Model for Sensorimotor Grounding and Grounding Transfer: Experiments with Epigenetic Robots.

Angelo Cangelosi;Thomas Riga

233
Citations
Head pose estimation in the wild using Convolutional Neural Networks and adaptive gradient methods

Massimiliano Patacchiola;Angelo Cangelosi

225
Citations
Evolution of communication and language using signals, symbols, and words

A. Cangelosi

224
Citations
Cell division and migration in a `genotype' for neural networks

Angelo Cangelosi;Domenico Parisi;Stefano Nolfi

223
Citations
An open-source simulator for cognitive robotics research: the prototype of the iCub humanoid robot simulator

V. Tikhanoff;A. Cangelosi;P. Fitzpatrick;G. Metta

211
Citations
Musical emotions: predicting second-by-second subjective feelings of emotion from low-level psychoacoustic features and physiological measurements.

Eduardo Coutinho;Angelo Cangelosi

206
Citations
From Robotic Toil to Symbolic Theft: Grounding Transfer from Entry-Level to Higher-Level Categories

Angelo Cangelosi;Alberto Greco;Stevan Harnad

196
Citations
Affordances in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Robotics: A Survey

Lorenzo Jamone;Emre Ugur;Angelo Cangelosi;Luciano Fadiga

193
Citations
Reynolds flocking in reality with fixed-wing robots: Communication range vs. maximum turning rate

Sabine Hauert;Severin Leven;Maja Varga;Fabio Ruini

172
Citations
Epigenetic Robotics Architecture (ERA)

A F Morse;J de Greeff;T Belpeame;A Cangelosi

136
Citations
Robotic services acceptance in smart environments with older adults: user satisfaction and acceptability study.

Filippo Cavallo;Raffaele Esposito;Raffaele Limosani;Alessandro Manzi

131
Citations
Grounding language in action and perception: from cognitive agents to humanoid robots.

Angelo Cangelosi

124
Citations
Computer simulation: a new scientific approach to the study of language evolution

Angelo Cangelosi;Domenico Parisi

117
Citations