About Me
I am a Postdoctoral fellow in the Humanoid Robotics Group headed by Prof. Dr. Rodney Brooks, at the MIT, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
I finished my PhD studies at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, of the University of Zurich working with Prof. Dr. Rolf Pfeifer.
Research interests
- Autonomous dexterous manipulation
- Development of adaptive learning mechanisms
- Sensorimotor coordination
- Exploitation of different sensory modalities: vision, touch, audition
- Prosthetic devices
Projects
- ROBOTCUB (ROBotic Open Architecture Technology for Cognition, Understanding and Behaviors, IST-004370)
- ADAPT (Artificial Development Approach to Presence Technologies)
- Embryogenic Evolution: From Simulation to Robotic Applications, project of the Swiss NSF (200021-109864/1)
- From locomotion to cognition
- Dynamical Coupling in Motor-Sensory Function Substitution
- Explorations in Embodied Cognition
During my PhD studies I worked in the European Projects:
As well as in the following projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation: