Scholar
Antonio Bicchi
Google Scholar ID: Bmuft6wAAAAJ
Senior Researcher, IIT, Genova, Italy. Professor of Control and Robotics, University of Pisa
Citations & Impact
Citations
15,137
H-index
58
i10-index
250
Publications
20
Co-authors
178
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published over 500 papers in international journals, books, and peer-reviewed conferences
- Recognized by IEEE in 2025 as a Pioneer in Robotics and Automation for fundamental contributions to artificial hands, haptics, and human-robot collaboration, and their applications to robotics and prosthetics
- Recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant (2012), a Synergy Grant (2019), and four Proof-of-Concept grants from the European Research Council
- Organized the first WorldHaptics Conference in 2005, now the premier conference in the field
- Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2015–2019), which became the highest-submission robotics journal
- Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) since January 2023
- Supervised over 80 PhD students and 26 postdocs; approximately 50 pursued successful industry careers, 20 became professors, and 10 became entrepreneurs
- His students have received multiple prestigious awards: Manuel G. Catalano (2013), Cosimo Della Santina (2019), and Giuseppe B. Averta (2020) won the G. Giralt Award for Best PhD Thesis in Robotics; Alessandro Altobelli (2015) and Federica Barontini (2023) received the EuroHaptics Best PhD Thesis Award; Arash Ajoudani (2021) and Cosimo Della Santina (2023) were awarded the IEEE RAS Early Career Award
- Co-founder and President emeritus of the Italian Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Machines (I-RIM)
