Advanced education, frontier research and innovation: this is The BioRobotics Institute of Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, founded in 2011. With time the Institute has built a wealth of knowledge and expertise in several fields of biorobotics and bionics, such as medical robotics, wearable technologies, collaborative robotics, bioinspired robotics, neuroscience robotics, rehabilitation robotics and implantable technologies.
The Institute promotes the internationalization of didactics and scientific research through collaboration with the most prestigious international knowledge centers. The Institute aims to educate engineers that are scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs and problem solvers.
Training
MSc in Bionics Engineering
The MSc is jointly offered by the Department of Information Engineering of UNIPI and by The BioRobotics Institute of SSSA
Phd in Biorobotics
With more than 100 students enrolled (with an average of 30 or more students per year), the PhD in BioRobotics is among the largest doctoral schools in robotics and biomedical engineering in the world
News
The new robotic hand from the Sant'Anna School will be tested on people with wrist or forearm amputations
Robots and androids, our next travelling companions: Paolo Dario, emeritus professor of the Sant'Anna School, is one of the guests at Biennale Tecnologia to present the book ‘Compagni di viaggio. Robot, androidi e altre intelligenze'
Research, the BioRobotics Institute at Sant'Anna School is among the partners of the international project REVEAL which aims to reveal effects of vagus nerve stimulation in humans
