ICORR
2005
IEEE
9th
International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics
Frontiers of the Human-Machine Interface
June 28 - July 1, 2005
Chicago, Illinois
Paolo Dario Bio
Paolo Dario received his Dr. Eng. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from
the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1977. He is currently a Professor of
Biomedical Robotics at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa.. He also
teaches courses at the School of Engineering of the University of Pisa
and at the Campus Biomedico University in Rome. He has been Visiting
Professor at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, at the Ecole
Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, and at
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He was the founder of the ARTS
(Advanced Robotics Technologies and Systems) Laboratory and is currently
the Co-ordinator of the CRIM (Center for the Research in
Microengineering) Laboratory of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, where he
supervises a team of about 70 researchers and Ph.D. students. He is also
the Director of the Polo Sant'Anna Valdera of the Scuola Superiore
Sant'Anna.
His main research interests are in the fields of medical robotics,
bio-robotics, mechatronics and micro/nanoengineering, and specifically
in sensors and actuators for the above applications, and in robotics for
rehabilitation.. He is the coordinator of many national and European
projects, the editor of two books on the subject of robotics, and the
author of more than 200 scientific papers (75 on ISI journals) . He is
Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor and member of the Editorial Board of
many international journals. He has been a plenary invited speaker in
many international conferences.
Prof. Dario has served as President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation
Society in the years 2002-2003, and he is currently Co-Chair of the
Technical Committees on Bio-robotics and of Robo-ethics of the same
Society. Prof. Dario is an IEEE Fellow, a Fellow of the European Society
on Medical and Biological Engineering, and a recipient of many honors
and awards, such as the Joseph Engelberger Award. He is also a member of
the Board of the International Foundation of Robotics Research (IFRR).
Prof. Dario is currently co-ordinator of
several national and international projects on the development of
mechatronic systems for functional substitution and restoration of
disabled persons. In particular, he is co-ordinator of the EU Project
CYBERHAND ("Development of a cybernetic hand prosthesis"), whose aim is
the development of a multi-dof sensorised hand prosthesis
bi-directionally connected to the peripheral nervous system, and of the
EU Project NEUROBOTICS ("Fusing Neuroscience and Robotics") whose aim is
to go "beyond robotics" by developing different hybrid bionic systems
designed through a systematic collaboration of neuroscientists and
roboticists.
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