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Overview

Giorgio Metta is affiliated with the Italian Institute of Technology in Italy. Their research primarily falls within the field of Engineering, with a significant focus on Biomedical Engineering as well as related subfields including Social Psychology, Control and Systems Engineering, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Mechanical Engineering.

Their main areas of work encompass robotic locomotion and control, social robot interaction and human-robot interaction (HRI), robot manipulation and learning, biomedical and engineering education, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, tactile and sensory interactions, and studies related to muscle activation and electromyography.

Giorgio Metta has contributed scholarly articles to several publication venues. Among these are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Science Robotics
  • Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • International Journal of Social Robotics

Notable recent papers include:

  • "iCub3 avatar system: Enabling remote fully immersive embodiment of humanoid robots," 2024, Science Robotics
  • "Stretchable graphene and carbon nanofiber capacitive touch sensors for robotic skin applications," 2021, Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
  • "Dynamic Control of a Rigid Pneumatic Gripper," 2020, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • "Making an Opportunity Out of a Crisis: The Inclusive Approach of the Italian Robotics Community," 2021, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
  • "Editorial of the Special Issue on Human-like Behavior and Cognition in Robots," 2023, International Journal of Social Robotics

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Daniele Pucci, Stefano Dafarra, Marco Maggiali, Giulio Romualdi, and Ugo Pattacini.

Best Publications

  • Tactile Sensing—From Humans to Humanoids

    R.S. Dahiya;G. Metta;M. Valle;G. Sandini

  • YARP: Yet Another Robot Platform:

    Giorgio Metta;Paul Fitzpatrick;Lorenzo Natale;Lorenzo Natale

  • Developmental robotics: a survey

    Max Lungarella;Giorgio Metta;Rolf Pfeifer;Giulio Sandini

  • 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

  • A Survey of Artificial Cognitive Systems: Implications for the Autonomous Development of Mental Capabilities in Computational Agents

    D. Vernon;G. Metta;G. Sandini

  • Methods and Technologies for the Implementation of Large-Scale Robot Tactile Sensors

    A Schmitz;P Maiolino;M Maggiali;L Natale

  • Learning about objects through action - initial steps towards artificial cognition

    P. Fitzpatrick;G. Metta;L. Natale;S. Rao

  • An embedded artificial skin for humanoid robots

    G. Cannata;M. Maggiali;G. Metta;G. Sandini

  • iCub: the design and realization of an open humanoid platform for cognitive and neuroscience research

    Nikolaos G. Tsagarakis;Giorgio Metta;Giulio Sandini;David Vernon

  • Robots with a sense of touch.

    Chiara Bartolozzi;Lorenzo Natale;Francesco Nori;Giorgio Metta

  • Robots As Intentional Agents: Using Neuroscientific Methods to Make Robots Appear More Social.

    Eva Wiese;Giorgio Metta;Agnieszka Wykowska

  • Towards long-lived robot genes

    Paul Fitzpatrick;Giorgio Metta;Lorenzo Natale

  • A Flexible and Robust Large Scale Capacitive Tactile System for Robots

    Perla Maiolino;Marco Maggiali;Giorgio Cannata;Giorgio Metta

  • Design of the robot-cub (iCub) head

    R. Beira;M. Lopes;M. Praca;J. Santos-Victor

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

    A Cangelosi;G Metta;G Sagerer;S Nolfi

  • 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

  • Piezoelectric oxide semiconductor field effect transistor touch sensing devices

    Ravinder S. Dahiya;Giorgio Metta;Maurizio Valle;Andrea Adami

  • Better Vision Through Manipulation

    Giorgio Metta;Paul M. Fitzpatrick

Frequent Co-Authors

Giulio Sandini
Giulio Sandini Italian Institute of Technology
Lorenzo Natale
Lorenzo Natale Italian Institute of Technology
Francesco Nori
Francesco Nori DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Maurizio Valle
Maurizio Valle University of Genoa
Ravinder Dahiya
Ravinder Dahiya Northeastern University
Luciano Fadiga
Luciano Fadiga Italian Institute of Technology
Leandro Lorenzelli
Leandro Lorenzelli Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Sean Ryan Fanello
Sean Ryan Fanello Google (United States)
Angelo Cangelosi
Angelo Cangelosi University of Manchester
Agnieszka Wykowska
Agnieszka Wykowska Italian Institute of Technology

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