Humanoid Robotics (ft. Prof. Giorgio Metta, IIT)

​What are the mechanisms by which humanoid robotics research evolves into deployable systems and multi-domain applications?

​Professor Giorgio Metta (Scientific Director, Italian Institute of Technology) will present the Embodied AI work of the Italian Institute of Technology. He will start from his own research on humanoid robotics and present a whole set of derived work that originated in various forms from that research. This includes a variety of autonomous robots with application in the medical, rehabilitation and prosthetics, space, industrial and modular robotics, and of course some recent development in humanoids and human-robot interaction. He will further describe how some of these robots are finding their way into commercial products through the creation of startups.

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​Giorgio Metta is Scientific Director of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). He holds an MSc (1994) and PhD (2000) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Genoa, and was a postdoctoral associate at the MIT AI Lab (now CSAIL) from 2001 to 2002. He has held academic positions at the University of Genoa and served as Professor of Cognitive Robotics at the University of Plymouth (UK) from 2012 to 2019. Since 2020, he has been Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester (UK).

​His research focuses on bioinspired systems and humanoid robotics, with emphasis on robots that learn from experience. He has authored over 300 scientific publications and has led numerous international and industrial research projects. He coordinated the development of the iCub humanoid robot, with more than 50 units now deployed in research laboratories across Japan, China, Singapore, Germany, Spain, the UK, and the United States.

​He also serves on scientific and industry boards, including the Digital Innovation Hub Liguria, the Humane Technology Lab at the Catholic University of Milan, A*STAR Singapore, and RAISE Scarl (NextGenerationEU-funded project), as well as advisory roles with Gefran S.p.A., Industrie De Nora S.p.A., and private equity funds HAT Sgr and the Quadrivio Group.

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