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TitleType, name of the eventInvolved person (partner)Dates and location/online conferenceType of contributionLink
2021 IEEE Italy Section Summer School on Information Enginee...

Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

December 10-12, 2020
Online

Invited Lecture: Machine learning algorithms for robots: from perception to control

Conference - RoboSoft 2022

Francesco Piqué (SSSA)

April 4-8, 2022
Edinburgh (UK)

Talk: Controlling Soft Robotic Arms Using Continual Learning

Conference – ICRA 2022

Andrea Centurelli
SSSA

May 23-27, 2022
Philadelphia (USA)

Talk: Closed-Loop Dynamic Control of a Soft Manipulator Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Summer School on Deformation in Robotics 2022

Carlo Alessi (SSSA)

July 4-8, 2022
University of Strasbourg, Lille (France)

Poster showing PROBOSCIS activities results

Summer School on Deformation in Robotics 2022

Enrico Donato (SSSA)

July 4-8, 2022
University of Strasbourg, Lille (France)

Poster showing PROBOSCIS activities results

Summer School on Deformation in Robotics 2022 

Camilla Agabiti (SSSA)

July 4-8, 2022
University of Strasbourg, Lille (France)

Poster showing PROBOSCIS activities results

Summer School on Deformation in Robotics 2022

Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

July 4-8, 2022
University of Strasbourg, Lille (France)

Invited lecture: AI-based controllers for soft manipulators

Conference - ICINCO 2022

Diego Bianchi (SSSA)

July 14-16, 2022
Lisbon (Portugal)

Talk: Open-loop Control of a Soft Arm in Throwing Tasks

Conference - RoboSoft 2023 Workshop on Modelling Challenges ...

Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

Singapore, 3-7 April 2023

Talk: Learning-based controllers for soft robots: towards real-world applications

Conference - RoboSoft 2023

Diego Bianchi (SSSA), Giulia Campinot, Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

Singapore, 3-7 April 2023

Policy Adaptation using an Online Regressing Network in a Soft Robotic Arm

Conference - RoboSoft 2023

Francesco Piquè (SSSA), Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

Singapore, 3-7 April 2023

Smell Driven Navigation for Soft Robotic Arms: Artificial Nose and Control

Conference - ICINCO 2023

Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

November 15, 2023
Rome (Italy)

Talk: Learning-Based Inverse Dynamic Controller for Throwing Tasks with a Soft Robotic Arm

ICRA 2024 - Workshop: “Cognition across species”

Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

May 13-17, 2024
Yokohama (Japan)

Talk: Exploring Cognitive Models Across Species for Robotic Control

Conference - RoboSoft 2023 Workshop on Modelling Challenges ...

Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

Singapore, 3-7 April 2023

Talk: Learning-based controllers for soft robots: towards real-world applications

ICRA 2024

Diego Bianchi (SSSA), Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

May 13-17, 2024
Yokohama (Japan)

Oral presentation: Softoss: Learning to throw objects with a soft robot

RoboSoft 2024 - Workshop: “EMBODIED EXPLORATION THROUGH MU...

Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

April 14-17, 2024
San Diego (USA)

Oral Presentation: Modelling the elephant trunk dynamics in reaching tasks

Summer School on Deformation in Robotics 2022 

Camilla Agabiti (SSSA)

July 4-8, 2022
University of Strasbourg, Lille (France)

Invited lecture: AI-based controllers for soft manipulators

Conference – ICAR 2021 

Andrea Centurelli
SSSA

December 6-10, 2021
Online

Talk: Open-loop Model-free Dynamic Control of a Soft Manipulator for Tracking Tasks

RoboSoft 2024 

Francesco Piquè(SSSA),Gojko Perovic(SSSA), Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

April 14-17, 2024
San Diego (USA)

Poster: Mitigating Stochasticity in Visual Serving of Soft Robots Using Data-Driven Generative Models

RoboSoft 2024 

Enrico Donato (SSSA), Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

April 14-17, 2024
San Diego (USA)

Poster: Multi-modal perception for soft robotic interactions using generative models

ICRA 2024 - Workshop: “Soft continuum manipulators: bottle...

Lucia Beccai (IIT-SBRP)

May 13-17, 2024 Yokohama (Japan)

Talk: Lessons from the elephant trunk for perceptive and versatile manipulators

ICRA 2024 - Workshop: “Soft continuum manipulators: bottle...

Matteo Lo Preti (IIT-SBRP)

May 13-17, 2024
Yokohama (Japan)

Poster: Comparative Analysis of African and Asian Elephant Trunk Sections for new design principles for bioinspired continuum manipulators

ICRA 2024 - Workshop: “Soft continuum manipulators: bottle...
Anderson Nardin (IIT-SBRP)

May 13-17, 2024
Yokohama (Japan)

Poster: Simulation of the AM I-SUPPORT Soft Arm: Integrating Hyperelastic Modeling for Enhanced Performance Validation

RoboSoft 2024 

Enrico Donato (SSSA), Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

April 14-17, 2024
San Diego (USA)

Talk: Continual Policy Distillation of Reinforcement Learning-based Controllers for Soft Robotic In-Hand Manipulation

Conference - RoboSoft 2023

Camilla Agabiti (SSSA), Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

Singapore, 3-7 April 2023

Whole-arm Grasping Strategy for Soft Arms to Capture Space Debris

ICRA 2024 - Workshop: “Soft continuum manipulators: bottle...

Egidio Falotico (SSSA)

May 13-17, 2024
Yokohama (Japan)

Talk: Learning models for soft robot control

RoboSoft 2024 - Workshop: “EMBODIED EXPLORATION THROUGH MU...

Lucia Beccai (IIT-SBRP)

April 14-17, 2024
San Diego (USA)

Talk: Insights on Elephant Trunk Interaction and Skin Morphology

Invited talk

Giovanna Naselli
(IIT-BSR)

December 1st, 2023
University of Genova (Italy)

Invited talk: An Introduction to Bioinspired Soft Robotics

Invited talk

Giovanna Naselli
(IIT-BSR)

October 26, 2023
Istituto di Biorobotics, Pontedera (Italy)

Invited talk: Can we really model soft robots?

Living machines 2023

Behnam Kamare (IIT-SBRP)

July 10-13, Genova (Italy)

Talk: Study and preliminary modeling of microstructure and morphology of the elephant trunk skin

Icra 2023 - Workshop ViTac: Blending Virtual and Real Visuo-...

Lucia Beccai (IIT-SBRP)

May 29 – June 2, London (UK) (talk was given online)

Invited talk: The elephant trunk as a new model of tactile perception

Robosoft 2023 – Workshop on “Functional Adaptiveness in ...

Lucia Beccai (IIT-SBRP)

April 3-7, 2023
Singapore

Invited Talk: Studying the elephant trunk from macro to microscale towards new continuum manipulators

Robosoft 2023 – Workshop on “Functional Adaptiveness in ...

Matteo Lo Preti (IIT-SBRP)

April 3-7, 2023
Singapore

Poster: The Elephant skin: armor or perceptive tool?

NeuTouch 2022 -International School on Technologies for Touc...

Matteo Lo Preti (IIT-SBRP)

September 26-30 2022

Invited talk: Interacting with the unknown: the soft sensing way

Workshop - Shaping the Future of Robotics through Materials ...

Simone Lantean (IIT-SBRP)

June 15-18, 2022
Max Planck Institute,
Schloss Ringberg (Germany)

Poster: Soft optical waveguide approaches for soft robotics

Workshop - Shaping the Future of Robotics through Materials ...

Lucia Beccai (IIT-SBRP)

June 15-18, 2022
Max Planck Institute
Schloss Ringberg (Germany)

Invited Talk: An introduction to the PROBOSCIS Project

Conference - MRS Spring meeting

Simone Lantean (IIT-SBRP)

May 8-13, 2022
Honolulu, Hawaii

Talk: Highly NIR-Reflective coatings for Soft Robotics Sensing

Conference - MRS Spring meeting

Seonggun Joe (IIT-SBRP)

May 8-13, 2022
Honolulu, Hawaii

Talk: Programmable architectures using highly deformable elastic lattice for multidimensional soft actuators

Workshop at RoboSoft 2022 

Lucia Beccai (IIT-SBRP)

April 4, 2022
Edimburgh (UK) and online

Invited talk: Soft sensing - State of the art and open challenges

Workshop at RoboSoft 2022

Matteo Lo Preti (IIT-SBRP)

April 4, 2022
Edimburgh (UK) and online

Poster: All-optical, distributed and deformable pressure and strain sensitive skins

Workshop Geomechanics meets Biorobotics: a new approach towa...

Lucia Beccai (IIT-SBRP)

March 2, 2022
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova (Italy)

Invited talk: From soft sensing approaches towards embodied perception in bioinspired soft gripping

Conference – IROS 2021

Seonggun Joe (IIT-SBRP)

September 27 – October 1, 2021
Prague (Czech Republic)

Talk: Sensing Deformation in Vacuum Driven Foam-Based Actuator via Inductive Method

Conference - I-RIM 2022

IIT-BSR

October 7-8 2022
Rome (Italy)

Poster: GRACE: GeometRy-based Actuators
that Contract and Elongate

Conference - International Conference on Programmable Materi...

Barbara Mazzolai
(IIT-BSR)

12-14 July, 2022
Berlin (Germany) and online

Invited Talk: Morphological and behavioural adaptation in soft robots

SMART Winter school

Barbara Mazzolai
(IIT-BSR)

12-17 December, 2021
Cambridge (UK)

Invited Talk: From Nature to Nature: a vision of bioinspired soft robots for the planet

Seminar Series in Physical Artificial Intelligence (PAI) at ...

Barbara Mazzolai
(IIT-BSR)

8 July, 2022
EMPA Dübendorf (Switzerland) and Online

Seminar: A vision towards bioinspired sustainable robotics

Workshop - Robosoft 2021

Paule Dagenais (UNIGE)

April 12, 2021
Online

Invited Talk: Methods for behavioral experiments with elephants

Biology Club

Paule Dagenais (UNIGE)

May 17, 2021
University of Geneva, Switzerland

Talk: Biomechanics of the elephant trunk

Anatomy Club of the Medical Faculty

Paule Dagenais (UNIGE)

January 24, 2022
University of Geneva, Switzerland

Talk: Biomechanics of the elephant trunk

Theoretical and Cognitive Neuroscience Journal Club

Paule Dagenais (UNIGE)

February 22, 2022
Online (hosted by the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)

Talk: Biomechanics of the elephant trunk

Seminars in Neuroscience

Paule Dagenais (UNIGE)

April 4, 2022
University of Cologne (Germany)

Talk: Biomechanics of the elephant trunk

Course Multi-Scale Integration in Biological Systems

Paule Dagenais (UNIGE)

November 13, 2023
Institut Curie Paris (France)

Talk: Biomechanics of the elephant trunk