Antonio Bicchi

Antonio Bicchi is an Italian professor of robotics at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia[1] and the University of Pisa[2] at which he works since 1990s[3] and a 2005 IEEE fellow.[4]

Early life

Antonio Bicchi had graduated from University of Bologna in 1988 and then worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoc till 1990. From 2003 to 2012 he was a director of the Research Center "E. Piaggio of the University of Pisa and since 2013 is serving as an Adjunct Professor at the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering of Arizona State University.[5]

Career

Research

In 2017 Antonio Bicchi had partnered with Sasha B. Godfrey and Rosalind Sadleir, under guidance from professor Marco Santello, to develop a synergy-based robotic hand.[6]

In 2018 he was one of the speakers at the International Robotics Festival along with Nikos Tsagarakis and Barbara Caputo who also spoke on the development of a Plantoid, a robot in shape of a plant.[7] The same year he along with Paolo Ferragina had developed an algorithm.[8]

Editorial work

In 2015 Antonio Bacchi had founded IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters of which he also was its Editor-in-Chief.[9] He was also Editor-in-Chief of the Conference Editorial Board for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.[10]

References

  1. ↑ James Vincent (30 July 2018). "OpenAI sets new benchmark for robot dexterity". The Verge. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  2. ↑ "Antonio Bicchi. Mano d`acciaio in guanto di velluto" (in Italian). Rai Scuola. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "L'Italia dei robot, ecco leader e luoghi della ricerca". Il Sole 24 Ore. 10 September 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "List of IEEE Fellows for 2005". IEEE. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Antonio Bicchi". Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "Striving for big steps in prosthetic hand technology". Arizona State University. 15 August 2017. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  7. ↑ "Festival della Robotica, l'IIT presenta il primo robot pianta al mondo" [Festival of Robotics, the IIT presents the world's first robot plant]. Dire (in Italian). 20 September 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  8. ↑ "Dagli algoritmi all'intelligenza artificiale alla robotica" [From algorithms to artificial intelligence to robotics] (in Italian). Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  9. ↑ "Founder and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus". IEEE RAS. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  10. ↑ "AdCom Class of 2019". IEEE RAS. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
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