Wearable Robotics for sustainable welfare
Giovedì 10 dicembre, alle ore 18, Nicola Vitiello, docente dell'Istituto di BioRobotica, terrà il seminario "Wearable Robotics for sustainable welfare". L'evento è il secondo appuntamento del ciclo di seminari "La ricerca negli Istituti di Ingegneria della Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna" organizzato nell’ambito della programmazione didattica di Ingegneria 20/21 a cura del prof. Christian Cipriani (vedi il programma preliminare) e che vede la partecipazione di docenti e ricercatori dell’Istituto di BioRobotica e dell’Istituto TeCIP.
Il seminario può essere seguito in diretta streaming sulla Piattaforma WebEX e sul canale YouTube dell'Istituto di BioRobotica al seguente indirizzo: https://youtu.be/WIgjZ2sm5do
ABSTRACT
Ageing population affects society welfare sustainability. The ageing of the population is one of the most critical challenges current industrialized societies will have to face in the next years, and threatens the sustainability of our social welfare. Among many diseases, gait disorders and upper-limb impairments are common and often devastating companions of ageing, leading to reductions in quality of life and increased mortality. This presentation will introduce the research activities carried out at The BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in the field of wearable robots for human movement assistance, rehabilitation and augmentation.
BIO SKETCH
Nicola Vitiello is Associate Professor with The BioRobotics Institute (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, SSSA, Pisa, Italy) where he leads the Wearable Robotics Laboratory. He is co-author of more than 80 ISI/Scopus papers and co-inventor of more than 20 patents/patent applications. He served as the Scientific Secretary of the EU FP7 CA-RoboCom project, and he was the scientific project coordinator of the EU FP7 CYBERLEGs project. Currently he is the scientific project coordinator of the H2020-ICT-CYBERLEGs Plus Plus project, the national projects MOTU and BioARM funded by INAIL, and is a partner of several EU projects. He is co-founder, director and advisor of IUVO Srl, a spin-off company of SSSA