Organizing Committee
Prof. Giorgio Cannata
Giorgio Cannata (Member, IEEE) received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering from the University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, in 1988. He is a Full Professor of Automatic Control at the Polytechnic School of Engineering, University of Genoa. He is the Scientific Coordinator of the Mechatronic and Automatic Control Laboratory (MACLAB), Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and System Engineering (DIBRIS), University of Genoa. His current research interests include robotics, mechatronics, and robot sensing and control systems.
Prof. Perla Maiolino
Perla Maiolino (Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree in software engineering, the M.Eng. degree in robotics and automation, and the Ph.D. degree in robotics from the University of Genova, Genoa, Italy, in 2006, 2010, and 2014, respectively. She is an Associate Professor at the Engineering Science Department and a member of Oxford Robotic Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K., where she is establishing the ORI Soft Robotics Laboratory. Before joining Oxford Robotics Institutes in 2018, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Biologically Inspired Robotics Laboratory (BIRL), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., where she started to be interested in soft robotics pursuing research in soft robot sensing and perception. Her research interests are related to the development of new technological solutions for tactile sensors and robot tactile perception.
Francesco Grella
Francesco Grella received the master’s degree in Robotics engineering in 2019 and the PhD degree in Robotics and Autonomous Systems in 2024, both from the University of Genoa, Italy. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher in robotics at the University of Genoa, working on sensor-based robot control, tactile-based and proximity-based robotic perception, and tactile sensor design and fabrication.
Dr. Alessandro Albini
Alessandro Albini received his PhD in 2020 at the University of Genoa, Italy. His research interests are related to artificial robot skin technologies and their applications to human-robot interaction and robot control. He is currently a Post Doctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford.