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About

Giorgio Grioli received his PhD in Robotics, Automation and Bio-Engineering from the University of Pisa in 2011, with a thesis on identification for control of variable impedance actuators. He is the author of more than 140 scientific papers, published in scientific journals and international conference proceedings, in the fields of soft robotic actuation, robotic hand design, haptics, human-machine interaction. Co-inventor of numerous robotic devices, helped found two spin-off companies. He has served as Associate Editor for the ICRA and ICORR conferences (since 2015) and as Editor for MDPI – Actuators, Cambridge – Robotics, and Springer – IJRR journals. Over the years he supervised the development of more than 40 master’s theses in the Automation Engineering and Mechanical Engineering courses and several bachelor’s theses and student projects for the Robotics course. Member of the information engineering doctoral board of the University of Pisa, where he supervised 6 students and is supervising another 5. He also supervised a PhD student in Smart Industries and is supervising two PhD students of national interest in Robotics and Intelligent Machines. Since September 2023 he is Senior Researcher at the University of Pisa, where he teaches “robot control” for the “robotic and automation engineering” masters’ degree course and “automatic controls” for the “vehicle engineering” masters’ degree course.

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Research Interests

• Variable Impedance Actuation
• Compliant Robotics for Human Robot Cooperation and Rehabilitation

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Contact

• LinkedIn
• University of Pisa
• Google Scholar
• ORCID

Selected Publications

• Bram Vanderborght, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Antonio Bicchi, Etienne Burdet, Darwin G. Caldwell, Raffaella Carloni, Manuel G. Catalano, Oliver Eiberger, Werner Friedl, Ganesh Ganesh, Manolo Garabini, Markus Grebenstein, Giorgio Grioli, Sami Haddadin, Hannes Höppner, Amir Jafari, Matteo Laffranchi, Dirk Lefeber, Florian Petit, Stefano Stramigioli, Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, Michaël Van Damme, Ronald Van Ham, Ludo C. Visser, Sebastian Wolf, Variable impedance actuators: A review, 2013. [Project Page]
• Bram Vanderborght, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Antonio Bicchi, Etienne Burdet, Darwin G. Caldwell, Raffaella Carloni, Manuel G. Catalano, Ganesh Gowrishankar, Manolo Garabini, Markus Grebenstein, Giorgio Grioli, Sami Haddadin, Amir Jafari, Matteo Laffranchi, Dirk Lefeber, Florian Petit, Stefano Stramigioli, Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis, Michaël Van Damme, Ronald Van Ham, Ludo C. Visser, Sebastian Wolf, Variable impedance actuators: Moving the robots of tomorrow, 2012. [Project Page]