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Pisa/IIT Softhand presented at the Hannover Messe

on Monday, 14 November 2016. Posted in News

Pisa/IIT Softhand presented at the Hannover Messe

qbrobotics, spinoff of Centro di Ricerca "E. Piaggio" of Pisa University and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, was selected to present some of its products and results of technological transfer of European projects at Hannover Messe, the most important international fair of industrial automation.

BEST INTERACTIVE PAPER AWARD AT HUMANOIDS 2015!

on Monday, 09 November 2015. Posted in News

Best Interactive Paper Award for a research supported by Softhands

at the International Conference of Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS 2015), November 3-5 Seoul, Korea

Dexterity augmentation on a synergistic hand: the Pisa/IIT SoftHand+
Cosimo Della Santina, Giorgio Grioli, Manuel Catalano, Alberto Brando, Antonio Bicchi

describing the a novel prototype of under-actuated robot hand, the Pisa/IIT SoftHand+

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at the International Conference of Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS 2015), November 3-5 Seoul, Korea

Dexterity augmentation on a synergistic hand: the Pisa/IIT SoftHand+
Cosimo Della Santina, Giorgio Grioli, Manuel Catalano, Alberto Brando, Antonio Bicchi

describing the a novel prototype of under-actuated robot hand, the Pisa/IIT SoftHand+

Softhands project @BRIGHT, The Researchers Night in Italy

on Friday, 25 September 2015. Posted in News

Softhands project @BRIGHT, The Researchers Night in Italy

Walkman, the humanoid robot created by Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in collaboration with Centro "E.Piaggio" - Università di Pisa, arrives in Tuscany on September 23rd for a demo in euRathlon, when it will demonstrate its ability to operate in a challenge and realistic scenario, performing tasks such as driving a car, open doors using its hands and closing an industrial safety valve. Some of the scenarios the robot has been designed to face include nuclear disaster or earthquake.

On September 25th walkman and the PISA/IIT Softhand will arrive in Pisa for BRIGHT -  The Researchers Night, at the booth of Centro Piaggio, when people will have the possibility to try the softhand for grasping different objects.

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Fifth edition of the "Robotics Research Jam Session" in Pisa

on Tuesday, 21 July 2015. Posted in News

The fifth edition of the "Robotics Research Jam Session" organized by Centro  "E. Piaggio" - University of Pisa with the Advanced Robotics Dept. of IIT will be held on July 21, 2015.

 

 

The programme is available here

Please register to the workshop before July 15 following this link.

PROGRAMME

9:30  Welcome and Introduction
Antonio Bicchi, Università di Pisa


9:45  Multi-contact interactions with humanoid robots: walking, grasping and balancing[Abstract]
Máximo RoaRobotics and Mechatronics Center, DLR, Munich, Germany

10:15  Danger field, safety field and other assessments: how to guarantee safe human-robot collaboration [Abstract]
Paolo Rocco, Politecnico di Milano, Italy


10:45  Weak force percepetion [Abstract]
Gabriel Baud-Bovy, Università di S. Raffaele, Milano e Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia di Genova, Italy


11:15    Coffee Break

11:30  Vision-based control of humanoid robots [Abstract]
Marilena Vendittelli, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy


12:00  Title T.B.A.
Nikos Tsagarakis, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia di Genova, Italy


12:30  A Simple General-Purpose Balance Controller for Planar Robots [Abstract]
Roy Featherstone, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia di Genova, Italy


13:00    Lunch Break

14:00  Why Robots Should Smell! Environmental Monitoring with Robot Systems [Abstract]
Achim Lilienthal, Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS), Sweden

14:30  Motion Planning for Real World Robots [Abstract]
Kris Hauser, Duke University, USA


15:00  Robotic Systems to Enhance Surgical Performance and Safety [Abstract]
Darwin Caldwell, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia di Genova, Italy

15:30   Keep in touch with robots: robot skin technology
Giorgio Cannata, Università di Genova, Italy [Abstract]

16:00   Coffee Break  

 

Registrazione gratuita (seguire il link)

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