Soft Pro - Events

December, 1, 2017

Maker Faire Rome 2017

Booth: "TECNOLOGIA TATTILE E INDOSSABILE: COSÌ LA ROBOTICA DÀ UNA MANO." (Wearable Tactile Tecnology: the helping hand of robotics) Rome, Italy.

Invited Talk. Maker Faire Rome. “The future in the making”. D. Prattichizzo. December 2017 https://2018.makerfairerome.eu/en/speaker/domenico-prattichizzo-2/
November, 16, 2017

Congresso meridionale di neurologia: L'importanza di fare "rete" (Italian Southern Congress of Neurology: the importance fo networking)

Invited Talk by D. Prattichizzo "La robotica indossabile: un ausilio per pazienti colpiti dalla malattia di Parkinson e Ictus."
Novembre, 15, 2017

XXV Congresso della Società Italiana di Psicofisiologie e Neuroscienze Cognitive

Workshop on COGNITIVE REHABILITATION. Rome, Italy

Invited Talk by D. Prattichizzo. "Ortheses and Wearable Extratheses"
November, 07, 2017

The 9th International Congress on Ultra-Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems.

"Wearables Haptics and Wearable Robotics”. Keynote talk: D. Prattichizzo.
November, 1, 2017

Mensch und Technologie: Digitale Dynamik ohne Grenzen?

H+ Kongress, Kursaal Bern, 8. November 2017
October 2017

World stroke day 2017 Conference.

Dopo l’ictus cerebrale: percorsi di neuroriabilitazione in Italia tra competenze e passione (After Stroke: neurorehabilitation paths in Italy between competence and passion) organized by the Italian Association Against Stroke, A.L.I.Ce. Italia onlus, and Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS. Rome, Italy
October, 2017

Round table on the subject "La condivisione e l’impegno delle Società Scientifiche e Professionali sul tema: La Riabilitazione Post Ictus in Italia" (post-stroke rehab in Italy).

Invited Talk by D. Prattichizzo and G. Pompili.
October, 2017

Workshop: Tatto - To Be Present, To Be Future, To Be Verona

Invited Talk by D. Prattichizzo at III° Forum Internazionale di To Be Verona. "La tecnologia tattile". Verona, Italy .
October, 24, 2017

Soft Hand e arto superiore

24 Ottobre 2017 - 45° Congresso Nazionale SIMFER.

IIT - Manuel Catalano - Soft Hand e arto superiore. Genova (Italy)
September 29, 2017

Researchers' Night 2017 @Pisa

The BRIGHT acronym means “Brilliant Researchers Impact on Growth Health and Trust in research”, wishing to underline the positive aspect of the research activity in order to convey a positive message to the general public.

The BRIGHT project aims at enhancing the visibility and perception of researchers among the general population in Tuscany, simultaneously with all the European Researchers’ Night (ERN) initiatives.

BRIGHT will bring the researchers in the squares and streets of the historical centres of the many cities invloved in the project, and will open the doors of the laboratories to the citizens. They will have a chance to talk to the researchers, appreciate their preparation and passion, and listen from their own words about the positive impact of the results of their research on the quality of our lives. “Researchers make your life better!” is the guiding principle stemming from the passion, the enthusiasm and hard intellectual work of researchers’ daily work and how this contributes to the wellbeing of the general population.

BRIGHT focuses on creating awareness on the important role played by researchers in addressing the great challenges ahead, such as health and wellbeing, new technologies, sustainable development, the physical and biological world, cultural heritage.

BRIGHT will be successful if it will be able to convince the population of the IMPACT of the researchers and the research products for the development of the society, enhancing the general TRUST in science: a particularly important target in a period in which too many hoaxes having no scientific basis are circulating.
September 7-13, 2017

International Robotics Festival @ Pisa

The International Robotics Festival is an event that has something for everyone; it aims to develop our knowledge of this field in all areas and applications.

Robots will be the main protagonists of the Festival and will feature in the fields of surgery, rehabilitation, care for the elderly and disabled, bionic prostheses, physical and emotional interaction with people, education, collaborative industrial robotics, precision agriculture, marine robotics, drones, circular economy, roboethics and art.

There are a number of promoters and co-promoters involved: institutions, universities, museums, foundations and many research institutes have come together to bring about the 1st International Robotics Festival, which will be unique and comprehensive event.

The Honors Committee will be chaired by the Mayor of Pisa, Mr. Marco Filippeschi.
March 27-28, 2017

SoftPro Meeting @Hannover

The SoftPro consortium met in Hannover on March 27-28, 2017, the days before the 10th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Biomechanics, also in Hannover.
March 22, 2017

The New H2020 Robotics Projects in the SPARC Strategy

SoftPro presentation at "The New H2020 Robotics Projects in the SPARC Strategy", presented by Stefano Stramigioli (UNI TWENTE)

October 22, 2016

TEDxSiena

Domenico Prattichizzo, Principal Investigator of the University of Siena, held a talk entitled "OPEN DOORS" as part of TEDxSiena.
October 14-16, 2016

Maker Faire @Rome, Italy

Domenico Prattichizzo (US) speaker with Giorgio Metta (Italian Institute of Technology), Celia Guimaraes (Rainews), moderator Giampaolo Colletti on the subject Generazione Umanoide: i robot nella nostra vita quotidiana (TR. Humanoid Generation: robots in our everyday life). In addition, the US team presented the live demos of the hRing and the Sixth Finger.
October 10 2016

Workshop Organization @IROS2016

Workshop “Evaluation and Benchmarking of Underactuated and Soft Robotic Hands” at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robot and Sytems (IROS 2016), Deajeon, Korea.

Organized by Maximo A. Roa (DLR), Domenico Prattichizzo (US), Monica Malvezzi (US), Maria Pozzi (US)
October 8, 2016

Team SoftHand Pro @Cybathlon

The first CYBATHLON was successfully launched in 2016 as an international championship in which people with disabilities or physical weakness use advanced assistive devices, including robotic technologies, to compete against each other. 66 pilots, 56 teams, 25 nations, 400 team members participated in six different disciplines, such as the ‘Powered Leg Prosthesis Race’. The focus of the races is on solving everyday life tasks. This CYBATHLON was organised by ETH Zurich and took place on the 8th October 2016 in the SWISS-Arena in Zurich-Kloten. Clint Olson represented the SoftHand Pro team placing fifth.
October 6, 2016

Cybathlon Symposium
On October 6, 2016, two days before the first Cybathlon, the Cybathlon Symposium brought together leading experts and young researchers to present and discuss recent technological advances within the six disciplines of the Cybathlon:
- Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Functional Electrical Stimulation
- Powered Arm Prosthetics
- Powered Leg Prosthetics
- Powered Exoskeletons
- Powered Wheelchairs
This scientific symposium featured six keynotes by leading researchers, eight short presentations by young talents as well as 49 posters/demos. A roundtable discussion involving end-users, patient and industry representatives and an ethics researcher highlighted opportunities and challenges in the field of assistive technology, its industrial transfer and user acceptance.
September 30, 2016

Researchers’ Night 2016 @Pisa

The BRIGHT acronym means “Brilliant Researchers Impact on Growth Health and Trust in research”, wishing to underline the positive aspect of the research activity in order to convey a positive message to the general public.

The BRIGHT project aims at enhancing the visibility and perception of researchers among the general population in Tuscany, simultaneously with all the European Researchers’ Night (ERN) initiatives.

BRIGHT will bring the researchers in the squares and streets of the historical centres of the many cities invloved in the project, and will open the doors of the laboratories to the citizens. They will have a chance to talk to the researchers, appreciate their preparation and passion, and listen from their own words about the positive impact of the results of their research on the quality of our lives. “Researchers make your life better!” is the guiding principle stemming from the passion, the enthusiasm and hard intellectual work of researchers’ daily work and how this contributes to the wellbeing of the general population.

BRIGHT focuses on creating awareness on the important role played by researchers in addressing the great challenges ahead, such as health and wellbeing, new technologies, sustainable development, the physical and biological world, cultural heritage.

BRIGHT will be successful if it will be able to convince the population of the IMPACT of the researchers and the research products for the development of the society, enhancing the general TRUST in science: a particularly important target in a period in which too many hoaxes having no scientific basis are circulating.
August 18, 2016

International Conference of Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics

IEEE Int. Conf. Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics.

Macau, China

Antonio Bicchi Plenary Speaker “Soft Robotics for Human Cooperation and Rehabilitation”
July 20, 2016

Living Machines

Living Machines

Edinburgh, Scotland,

Antonio Bicchi Plenary Speaker “On the Soft Synergy Model and Its Applications to Artificial Hands”
July 18, 2016

Robotics Research Jam Sessions in Pisa

The sixth edition of the Robotics Research Jam Session organized by Centro "E. Piaggio" - University of Pisa with the Advanced Robotics Dept. of IIT with the support of SoftPro project will be held on July 18, 2016.

Researchers belonging to different disciplines of human and robotics sciences will meet in a rather casual fashion to exchange research results and ideas.
June 18-22, 2016

Workshop @RSS2016

SoftPro Consortium attended RSS 2016 - XII International Conference on Robotic Science and Systems, Michigan, USA,

Workshop "Minimality & Design Automation" , June 18
Matteo Biachi (UNIPI): Minimality and Under-Sensing: A Human-Inspired Approach
June 6-9 2016

SoftPro @Technolgy Hub fair, Milan

Centro "E.Piaggio" - University of Pisa in "Piazza Soft Robotics" with the Softhand
June, 2016

Matlab Expo

Talk “Syngrasp: a Matlab Toolbox to simulate robotic hands” Domenico Prattichizzo (US). Milan

The US team has also presented the demos of the Robotic Sixth Finger, a wearable extra finger, and of the hRing, a novel wearable cutaneous device for the proximal finger phalanx, and the poster “L. Meli, G. Spagnoletti, M. Pozzi, I. Hussain, G. Salvietti, D. Prattichizzo, Wearable Robotics and Wearable Haptics” during the demo session
June, 2016

Edison Innovation Week 2016

Edison Innovation Week 2016, Milan.

Talk: ”Making a new health: un robot da indossare”, Domenico Prattichizzo (US)
The US team has also presented the sixth finger demo at the end of the talk
May 24-26 2016

SoftPro @SPSItalia, the Italian Automation Fair, Parma

Qbrobotics and Centro Piaggio - Università di Pisa presented the Softhand and Softpro project at SPSItalia
May 17-19 2016

Congresso Nazionale Forum delle Organizzazioni del Comparto nelle Tecniche Ortopediche', Bologna
April 25-29 2016

qbrobotics at the Hannover Messe

qbrobotics, spinoff of Centro di Ricerca "E. Piaggio" of Pisa University and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, was selected to present some of its products and results of technological transfer of European projects at Hannover Messe, the most important international fair of industrial automation.
April 8-11 2016,

Workshop Organization at IEEE Haptic Symposium, Philadelphia

Human and Robot Hands, Human and Robot Touch:Sensorimotor Synergies to Bridge the Gap Between Neuroscience and Robotics

Workshop at IEEE Haptics Symposium, Philadelphia, USA
April 8-11 2016

Organized by Matteo Bianchi (UNIPI) and Alessandro Moscateli (University of Bielefeld)

Talks from Softpro Consortium:

Dexterous Manipulation: from High-level Representation to Low-level Coordination of Digit Force and Position
Qiushi Fu and Marco Santello Arizona State University

Sensorimotor Synergies for the Design of Haptic, Sensing and Robotic Systems
Matteo Bianchi Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and University of Pisa

Synergies in the Brain: Measuring Brain Activity for Complex Finalized Hand Movements
Andrea Leo and Emiliano Ricciardi University of Pisa

A Myoelectric Prosthetic Prototype Based on Novel Robotic Hand and First Grasp Synergy: Patient Outcomes
Kristin D. Zhao Mayo Clinic

Kineto-Static Analysis and Control of Synergistic Underactuated Robotic Hands
Edoardo Farnioli Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

How to Map Human Hand Synergies onto Robotic Hands Using the Syngrasp Matlab Toolbox
Gionata Salvietti and Domenico Prattichizzo University of Siena
February 25-27, 2016

Argumented Human Conference, Geneve

DEMO "The Robotic Sixth Finger" at Domenico Prattichizzo (UNI SIENA)
February 8-9. 2016

4th ASU Rehabilitation Robotics Workshop, Arizona State University, USA

Organized by Marco Santello, ASU

Plenary speaker Mitsuo Kawato, ATR Computational Neuroscience Labs, Japan

Invited Speaker Antonio Bicchi, Italian Institute of Technology, University of Pisa

Demo of the Pisa-IIT Softhand

Events

2020

ORS 2020

Symbola Enel

Winter school on Wearable Robots

2019

Assistive Technology Workshop

Moonshot International Symposium

L'evoluzione delle macchine, da Leonardo Da Vinci alla Generazione R

European Robotics Week

WUD Rome 2019

IROS 2019

IEEE Sensors 2019

Neuroscience 2019

I-RIM 3D Conference

Maker Faire

Groundbreakers Maker Faire

American Society for Neurorehabilitation (ASNR) Annual Meeting

Humanoids 2019

SIN 2019

Abilitando Conference

Cyber Human Systems of the HaslerStiftun

Summer School Of Neurorehabilitation

Automatica

Demographiekongress / Demographics Congress

Presentation at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

CYBATHLON Experience at Weltklasse Zurich

EMBS 2019

Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB)

IEEE World Haptics Conference

Muscle School: Exercise muscle in health and disease

Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2019)

Robotics Jam Sessions

17th European Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology

20th EFORT Congress

3rd Congress on Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

ICRA 2019

ICRA 2019

Across length scales with Additive Manufacturing

Cybathlon Series 2019

Symposium on Assistive and Wearable Robotics (AsWeR 2019)

32th ANNUAL MEETING of the European Musculo Skeletal Oncology Society

World conferderation for physical therapy

Robotics Research Jam Sessions - Spring Session 2019

11. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Biomechanik (DGfB)

WearRAcon 19

Workshop “Innovation in Rehabilitation Technologies”

Orthopaedic Research Society

Winter School on Wearable Robots Augmentation, Assistance or Substitution of human motor functions

2018

Radio Siena Tv: Buongiorno Siena!

TEDxFoggia

CNR - Visual Computing Lab

ASPE Annual Meeting (33rd)

Soroptimist International Siena-Progetto "SI FA STEM"

Homo Faber: Passato, Presente e Futuro Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati Sapienza

AsiaHaptics 2018

ICNR 2018

ICNR 2018. Workshop: Artificial Supernumerary Limbs for Clinical Neuroscience.

ICNR 2018. Special Session: New perspectives in upper limb prosthetics: from the robotics laboratory to clinical use.

Maker Faire Rome 2018 - Opening Event - GROUNDBREAKERS: PIONEERS OF THE FUTURE

Exhibition booth @ MakerFair Rome 2018

IROS 2018 Conference, Madrid Spain

Festival Internazionale della Robotica (International Robotics Festival). Pisa, Italy

Booth at Bright! Notte dei Ricercatori, Siena, Italy.

Booth at Bright! Notte dei Ricercatori, Pisa, Italy.

CYBATHLON at REHACARE 2018

Robotik und Maschinelle Intelligenz (Robotics and Machine Intelligence)

Opening year event - Lions Club Arezzo Mecenate

Robots in Health

Wearable human tracking: technologies, methods, and experiments

Jumping into the next century with medical technology advancements.

Opportunities for startups in Germany and career opportunities in Germany and the USA.

Sichere Mensch-Roboter Interaktion (Safe Human-Robot Interaction)

Open Source Soft Robotics Technologies for the design of functional and affordable prosthetics hands

The Robotic Sixth Finger: design of an EMG-controlled device for hemiparetic upper limbs

Prosthetic Hands for the real World: Soft Robotics Technologies to Enable Robustness and Interaction

BioRob 2018 conference

Robotik und Medizin: Geriatronik und was noch mehr? (Robotics and Medicine: Geriatronics and what else?)

Bronze Sponsorship of IEEE EMBC. Honolulu, USA.