Linda Paterno'

Linda Paternò received her BSc degree and MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering respectively in 2013 and 2016 from the Univesity of Pisa, Italy. During her Master Thesis at the BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, she developed hybrid soft-rigid actuators for tunable stiffness devices. She received the PhD in BioRobotics and she is currently an assistant professor (RTDa) at the BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in the Surgical Robotics and Allied Technologies Area. The Thesis, discussed on May 2020, was entitled “Physical Human Machine Interfaces for Lower Limb Prostheses". Her research activity is mainly focused on the development of robotic devices with high compliance, back-drivability, and variable stiffness, to allow for novel functionalities in systems in direct contact with humans, in particular prosthetic sockets and minimally invasive surgery devices.

She is working in the framework of the MOTU++ and MAPWORMS projects. The project MOTU++ is promoted by the National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work (INAIL) and it has as its objective a novel paradigm of robotic trans-femoral prosthesis, equipped with a smart socket developed by means of tunable stiffness techniques and innovative materials. The MAPWORMS project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation program, and it aims at developing a new concept of bioinspired robots qualified to fulfill tasks in response to environmental stimuli thanks to their smart materials.