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, bio-inspired 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.

Our mission is based on three pillars:

The BioRobotics Institute has also activated an Educational Robotics program with schools in Tuscany, Italy. The program aims at bringing technology and robotics in schools and using them as a new instrument for teaching scientific and technical subjects.

 

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Research Areas

ARTIFICIAL HANDS AREA

The Artificial Hands Area of the BioRobotics Institute pursues research into mechatronics and human-machine interfaces for advanced robotic limbs to be used as thought-controlled prostheses.

CREATIVE ENGINEERING DESIGN AREA

Creative engineering design in robotics and biorobotics is a way to bridge research and industrial innovation, to develop acceptable and sustainable robots, and to educate creative students.

NEURO ROBOTICS AREA

The dream: to develop wearable robots allowing the human-robot symbiosis Symbiosis: “a close, prolonged association between two or more different organisms of different species that may, but...

ROBOT COMPANIONS FOR CITIZENS AREA

Major scientific and engineering breakthroughs are needed to develop high performance, complex artificial systems, like robots, as Companions that are safe, social, dependable, sustainable and...

Sensor Signals and Information Processing Area

The research activity concerns the design, development and validation of wearable inertial sensor systems for ambulatory human motion monitoring. 

SOFT ROBOTICS AREA

The growing need for robots in service tasks, in unstructured environments, in contact with humans, is leading to relase the basic assumption of rigid parts in robotics.
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SURGICAL ROBOTICS AND ALLIED TECHNOLOGIES AREA

The Surgical Robotics (SR) researchers investigate problems, identify enabling technologies and develop solutions for addressing the field of minimally invasive and targeted therapy and diagnosis

TRANSLATIONAL NEURAL ENGINEERING AREA

Neuroengineering is a novel discipline combining engineering including micro and nanotechnology, electrical and mechanical, and computer science with cellular, molecular, cognitive neuroscience
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