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Overview

Francesco Nori is a researcher affiliated with DeepMind in the United Kingdom. Their work is primarily situated in the fields of engineering and computer science, with significant contributions across several subfields such as biomedical engineering, artificial intelligence, control and systems engineering, computer vision and pattern recognition, and pharmacology.

The scientist's research encompasses a diverse range of topics including reinforcement learning in robotics, robot manipulation and learning, muscle activation and electromyography studies, robotic locomotion and control, domain adaptation and few-shot learning, prosthetics and rehabilitation robotics, and musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation.

Nori has published extensively in prominent venues, with frequent contributions to arXiv (Cornell University), where they have 13 publications. Additional publication venues include Science Robotics and IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.

Some of the notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Nori include:

  • Learning agile soccer skills for a bipedal robot with deep reinforcement learning (2024, Science Robotics)
  • Analysis of Human Whole-Body Joint Torques During Overhead Work With a Passive Exoskeleton (2021, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems)
  • Beyond Pick-and-Place: Tackling Robotic Stacking of Diverse Shapes (2021, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • Learning Dexterous Manipulation from Suboptimal Experts (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • Barkour: Benchmarking Animal-level Agility with Quadruped Robots (2023, arXiv (Cornell University))

Frequent collaborators in Nori's research efforts include Nicolas Heess, Arunkumar Byravan, Stefano Saliceti, José Enrique Chen, and Jan Humplik. These collaborations reflect a consistent teamwork pattern within related domains of robotics and machine learning.

Best Publications

  • The iCub humanoid robot: an open platform for research in embodied cognition

    Giorgio Metta;Giulio Sandini;David Vernon;Lorenzo Natale

  • The iCub humanoid robot: An open-systems platform for research in cognitive development

    Giorgio Metta;Lorenzo Natale;Francesco Nori;Giulio Sandini

  • Robots with a sense of touch.

    Chiara Bartolozzi;Lorenzo Natale;Francesco Nori;Giorgio Metta

  • Integration of Action and Language Knowledge: A Roadmap for Developmental Robotics

    A Cangelosi;G Metta;G Sagerer;S Nolfi

  • Evidence for composite cost functions in arm movement planning: an inverse optimal control approach.

    Bastien Berret;Enrico Chiovetto;Francesco Nori;Thierry Pozzo;Thierry Pozzo;Thierry Pozzo

  • An experimental evaluation of a novel minimum-jerk cartesian controller for humanoid robots

    Ugo Pattacini;Francesco Nori;Lorenzo Natale;Giorgio Metta

  • An open-source simulator for cognitive robotics research: the prototype of the iCub humanoid robot simulator

    V. Tikhanoff;A. Cangelosi;P. Fitzpatrick;G. Metta

  • Muscle synergies in neuroscience and robotics: from input-space to task-space perspectives

    Cristiano Alessandro;Ioannis Delis;Ioannis Delis;Ioannis Delis;Francesco Nori;Stefano Panzeri;Stefano Panzeri

  • Learning agile soccer skills for a bipedal robot with deep reinforcement learning

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  • The design of the iCub humanoid robot

    Alberto Parmiggiani;Marco Maggiali;Lorenzo Natale;Francesco Nori

  • Motor contagion during human-human and human-robot interaction

    Ambra Bisio;Alessandra Sciutti;Francesco Nori;Giorgio Metta

  • Force feedback exploiting tactile and proximal force/torque sensing Theory and implementation on the humanoid robot iCub

    Matteo Fumagalli;Matteo Fumagalli;Serena Ivaldi;Marco Randazzo;Lorenzo Natale

  • Walking on partial footholds including line contacts with the humanoid robot atlas

    Georg Wiedebach;Sylvain Bertrand;Tingfan Wu;Luca Fiorio

  • iCub Whole-Body Control through Force Regulation on Rigid Non-Coplanar Contacts

    Francesco Nori;Silvio Traversaro;Jorhabib Eljaik;Francesco Romano

  • Measuring Human-Robot Interaction Through Motor Resonance

    Alessandra Sciutti;Ambra Bisio;Francesco Nori;Giorgio Metta

  • James: A Humanoid Robot Acting over an Unstructured World

    Lorenzo Jamone;Giorgio Metta;Francesco Nori;Giulio Sandini

  • Identification of fully physical consistent inertial parameters using optimization on manifolds

    Silvio Traversaro;Stanislas Brossette;Adrien Escande;Francesco Nori

  • Tools for simulating humanoid robot dynamics: A survey based on user feedback

    Serena Ivaldi;Jan Peters;Vincent Padois;Francesco Nori

  • Stability analysis and design of momentum-based controllers for humanoid robots

    Gabriele Nava;Francesco Romano;Francesco Nori;Daniele Pucci

  • Collocated Adaptive Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems

    Daniele Pucci;Francesco Romano;Francesco Nori

  • Design, realization and sensorization of the dexterous iCub hand

    Alexander Schmitz;Ugo Pattacini;Francesco Nori;Lorenzo Natale

  • A modular bio-inspired architecture for movement generation for the infant-like robot iCub

    S. Degallier;L. Righetti;L. Natale;F. Nori

Frequent Co-Authors

Giorgio Metta
Giorgio Metta Italian Institute of Technology
Giulio Sandini
Giulio Sandini Italian Institute of Technology
Lorenzo Natale
Lorenzo Natale Italian Institute of Technology
Thierry Pozzo
Thierry Pozzo Italian Institute of Technology
Luciano Fadiga
Luciano Fadiga Italian Institute of Technology
Angelo Cangelosi
Angelo Cangelosi University of Manchester
Nikos G. Tsagarakis
Nikos G. Tsagarakis Italian Institute of Technology
Nicolas Mansard
Nicolas Mansard Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems
Jost Tobias Springenberg
Jost Tobias Springenberg University of Freiburg
Martin Riedmiller
Martin Riedmiller DeepMind (United Kingdom)

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