Bruno Siciliano has been appointed Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association – AAIA, an academic, non-profit and non-governmental organization, whose mission is to promote the development and application of AI through academic research and scientific education .
The prof. Siciliano, full professor of automation and robotics at DIETI, Fellow of the scientific associations IEEE, ASME, IFAC, winner of the Engelberger Award for Education, obtains the prestigious nomination as "high-level scientist with outstanding results in the area of human-robot cooperation" .
Man-robot cooperation is a fundamental theme of his research, explored also thanks to the numerous European projects won at the helm of the PRISMA Lab. Among the first, PHRIENDS, for the development of key components of a new generation of robots designed to share the environment and physically interact. SAPHARI, for the study of all essential aspects of the safe and intuitive physical interaction between humans and robots. SHERPA, a ground and air robotic platform to support search and rescue activities in a hostile environment such as the Alpine scenario.
Projects that have paved the way for research lines such as aerial, assistive, cognitive, industrial, service robotics and have brought the team an average annual funding of 1.4 million euros over the last ten years.
The recognition of the AAIA to the professor Siciliano joins those already obtained by Leopoldo Angrisani, Antonio De Maio, Marco Lops and Carlo Sansone.
Below is the link to the news on the UniNa website: http://www.unina.it/-/42494547-bruno-siciliano-fellow-della-asia-pacific-artificial-intelligence-association