Highly wearable robotics for humans
On March 4th, at 2.00 p.m. Domenico Pratichizzo, Professor at the University of Siena and Senior Scientist with the IIT (Italian Institute of Technology) presents the seminar "Highly wearable robotics for humans". The seminar will take place in Aula Magna (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna). Click here to join the meeting via Microsoft Teams.
Biography
Prof Prattichizzo received the Ph D degree in robotics and automation from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 1995 He is a Professor of Robotics with the University of Siena, Siena, Italy a Senior Scientist with the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Genova, Italy Co founder of two startups WEART and EXISTO on wearable robotics IEEE Fellow Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Haptics and President of Eurohaptics society.
Human and robotic hands, along with haptic perception and the art of manipulating objects, have polarized his research, which is increasingly oriented towards highly wearable robotics and wearable haptics Scientific Coordinator of several research projects funded by European Union, USA and Japan In 2015 he pioneered the field of human augmentation with the robotic sixth finger to support patients with paretic limbs In 2020 he co authored the Springer book on Augmenting Human Manipulation Abilities with Supernumerary Robotic Limbs He has been recognized with the award of Italia degli Innovatori from Italian Government at EXPO Shanghai 2010. He is the author of more than 500 publications in scientific journals, books and conference proceedings He is the inventor of more than 10 patents filed on robotics, haptics and wearables.