PhD in Biorobotics Science and Engineering

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(Year 2005 – XX cycle)

The Ph.D. Program in Biorobotics Science and Engineering aims at training highly competent researchers with the potential to lead Biorobotics research worldwide.

Biorobotics is a new scientific and technological area with a unique interdisciplinary character. It derives its methodology mainly from the sectors of Robotics and Biomedical Engineering, but boasts its cultural and application scope towards many sectors of engineering, towards basic and applied science (medicine, neuroscience, economics, law, bio/nanotechnologies in particular), and even towards humanities (philosophy, sociology, psychology, ethics).

Biorobotics aims at increasing knowledge on how biological systems work by analyzing them from a "biomechatronic" viewpoint, and exploiting this knowledge in order to develop innovative methodologies and technologies, both for the design and construction of high performance bio-inspired machines and systems (at the macro, micro and nano scales), such as animaloid and humanoid robots, and for developing devices for biomedical applications, e.g., for minimally-invasive surgery and neuro-rehabilitation.

The program imparts on its graduates a professional profile that combines substantial technical and scientific expertise in advanced areas, and a system-oriented approach to design problems, with a vision that retains man at the centre of the development and the evaluation of technology, and with the capability of conceiving and designing new and innovative (including industrial) research projects, with an autonomous entrepreneurship capability.

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Scientific Board:

Paolo Dario, Scuola Sup. di Studi Univ. e Perfezionamento S.Anna di Pisa - Pisa (Coordinator)
Hisham Abou-Kandil, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
Harry Asada, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alain Berthoz, College de France
Francesco Donato Busnelli, Scuola Sup. di Studi Univ. e Perfezionamento S.Anna di Pisa - Pisa
Alfred Cuschieri, Scuola Sup. di Studi Univ. e Perfezionamento S.Anna di Pisa - Pisa
Mark R. Cutkoski, Stanford University
Brunello Ghelarducci, Università di Pisa - Pisa
Paolo Giusti, Università di Pisa - Pisa
Gian Maria Gros-Pietro, Libera Univ. Inter.le Studi Sociali "Guido Carli" LUISS-Roma - Roma
Blake Hannaford, University of Washington
Oussama Khatib, Stanford University
Larry Leifer, Stanford University
Mario Martinelli, Politecnico di Milano - Milano
Deirdre Meldrum, University of Washington
Franco Mosca, Università di Pisa - Pisa
Riccardo Pietrabissa, Politecnico di Milano - Milano
Vincenzo Tagliasco, Università degli Studi di Genova - Genova
Atsuo Takanishi, Waseda University

Alumni:

Year 2005 - XX Cycle
Michela Aquilano	m.aquilano@alumni.imtlucca.it
Silvia Bossi	s.bossi@alumni.imtlucca.it
Emanuele Caselli	e.caselli@alumni.imtlucca.it
Benedetta Cesqui	b.cesqui@alumni.imtlucca.it
Gaetano Ciaravella	g.ciaravella@alumni.imtlucca.it
Christian Cipriani	c.cipriani@alumni.imtlucca.it
Luca Citi
Gabriele Ferri	g.ferri@alumni.imtlucca.it
Weiting Liu	w.liu@alumni.imtlucca.it
Luigi Manfredi	l.manfredi@alumni.imtlucca.it
Vito Monaco	v.monaco@alumni.imtlucca.it
Marco Piccigallo	m.piccigallo@alumni.imtlucca.it
Pericle Salvini	p.salvini@alumni.imtlucca.it
Umberto Scarfogliero	u.scarfogliero@alumni.imtlucca.it

Study / Research Period Abroad:

IMT Students are encouraged to spend a study / research period abroad.
Here is the list of the hosting institutions of BSE students (XX cycle):

Hosting Institution	Country
Carnegie Mellon University, Mechanical Engineering Department	USA
Collège de France	France
Fraunhofer Institut für Biomedizinische Technik	Germany
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences	USA
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering Department	USA
MIT - Massachusset Institute of Technology, Media Lab	USA
Stanford University, Mechanical Engineering Department	USA
University of Reading, Faculty of Sciences, Cybernetics	UK
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute	USA

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