Honors and Awards

  • 2022, Best Poster Award (Team Prosthetics), TUM Demo Days 2022 (Germany)

  • 2022, Best MSc Thesis Award (V. Spieker), MedTecLIVE Talent Award (Germany)

  • 2020, 2nd place at Cybathlon 2020 Global Edition “Powered Arm Prosth. Race”, Team SoftHand Pro (UNIPI-IIT)

  • 2019, Best PhD Thesis Award (C. Piazza), PhD Talent, University of Pisa (Italy)

  • 2019, 2nd place at Cybathlon Series 2019 “Powered Arm Prosthesis Race”, Team SoftHand Pro (UNIPI-IIT)

  • 2018, 2nd place at Cybathlon Experience 2018 “Powered Arm Prosth. Race”, Team SoftHand Pro (UNIPI-IIT)

  • 2016, Dr. Kanako Miura Award, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2016)

  • 2016, 1st place at Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition, IEEE-RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and System (IROS 2016),  Team UNIPI-IIT-QB

  • 2016, 5th place at Cybathlon 2016 “Powered Arm Prosthesis Race”, Team SoftHand Pro (UNIPI-IIT)

  • 2012, Best Paper Award, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2012)