The Socially Competent Robots (SoCoRo) project is funded by EPSRC for 42 months from November 2016 until April 2020 and has the Departments of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University and the University of Glasgow as its partners. We aim to develop a robot with socially expressive behaviours that can function as a training device for high-functioning adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and help them to improve their ability to recognise social signals.