Awards

Georges Giralt PhD Award: Cosimo Della Santina 2020 (UP)
2th place for “SoftHand Team” at Cybathlon Series 2019
5th place for “SoftHand Team” at Cybathlon 2016
the SoftHand team (UP and IIT) won the Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition at IROS 2016
UP and IIT won the Best Paper award at IEEE Haptics Symposium 2016 for the publication [1].
US won the Best Demonstration award at IEEE Haptics Symposium 2016 with the demonstration “G. Spagnoletti, I. Hussain, C. Pacchierotti, G. Salvietti, D. Prattichizzo, The hRing: a haptic interface for an extra robotic finger”. US won the Asia Haptics 2016 Silver Award with the publication [2].
US won the Asia Haptics 2016 Silver Award with the publication [2].
US was second ranked demo in the Innovation Competition on WearRAcon17 with the demo “I. Hussain, L. Meli, G. Spagnoletti, G. Gioioso, D. Prattichizzo, The Sixth Finger for compensating hand functions”
UP and IIT were finalists for the Best Paper award during World Haptics 2017 for [3] and [4].
University of Twente. Martin van den Brink Award, Dutch Society for Precision Engineering at Evoluon Eindhoven.

[1] Bianchi, M., Battaglia, E., Poggiani, M., Ciotti, S., & Bicchi, A. (2016, April). A Wearable Fabric-based display for haptic multi-cue delivery. In Haptics Symposium (HAPTICS), 2016 IEEE (pp. 277-283).

[2] Chinello, Francesco, Claudio Pacchierotti, Monica Malvezzi, and Domenico Prattichizzo. "A novel 3RRS wearable fingertip cutaneous device for virtual interaction.", Asia Haptics 2016.

[3] Battaglia, E., Clark, J. P., Bianchi, M., Catalano, M. G., Bicchi, A., & O'Malley, M. K. (2017, June). The Rice Haptic Rocker: skin stretch haptic feedback with the Pisa/IIT SoftHand. In World Haptics Conference (WHC), 2017 IEEE (pp. 7-12).

[4] Bianchi, Matteo, Alessandro Moscatelli, Simone Ciotti, Gemma Carolina Bettelani, Federica Fioretti, Francesco Lacquaniti, and Antonio Bicchi. "Tactile slip and hand displacement: Bending hand motion with tactile illusions." In World Haptics Conference (WHC), 2017 IEEE, pp. 96-100.

SoftPro has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No.688857

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