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The Essex BCI-NE Lab invites you to join our next monthly webinar:</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Abstract:</b> The talk will discuss selected case studies of technologies developed for endowing robots and wearables with artificial tactile sensors distributed over large areas and to deliver tactile feedback: from bionic
limb prostheses up to the metaverse. A first case study proposed is with </span>
<span style="color: blue;"><u><a style="color: blue; margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="2" data-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5740988" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAa471fb1f-80bb-58c6-4e19-f82cfd27a477" target="_blank" href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5740988">piezoresistive
MEMS sensors</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, applied to bionic hand prostheses to
</span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a style="color: blue; margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="3" data-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://elifesciences.org/articles/9148" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA7f866d38-5688-3841-3be2-e38f838ad8d5" target="_blank" href="https://elifesciences.org/articles/9148">restore
rich tactile skills</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, such as </span>
<span style="color: blue;"><u><a style="color: blue; margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="4" data-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-57454-4" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA3fb07691-4fa2-fa20-8386-90c20b9f235a" target="_blank" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-57454-4">texture
discrimination</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> in upper limb amputees. Selected achievements are shown in the talk, discussing the application of tactile sensing technologies in a gripper able to manipulate fragile and deformable objects
in </span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a style="color: blue; margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="5" data-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbot.2019.00008/full" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA4f92311c-49c0-c648-56bb-dd6d6cc33d77" target="_blank" href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbot.2019.00008/full">collaboration
with NASA-JPL</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, enabled by </span>
<span style="color: blue;"><u><a style="color: blue; margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="6" data-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/soro.2018.0172" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA5b7159d5-ac78-3f9b-1dde-dd1bd3dd485f" target="_blank" href="https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/soro.2018.0172">combining
FEM and machine learning</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, or for
</span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a style="color: blue; margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="7" data-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00487-3" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAe48df67d-d422-bb74-3389-24a174481574" target="_blank" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00487-3">sensorizing
the full area of an anthropomorphic robotic arm</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> featured on the cover of
</span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a style="color: blue; margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="8" data-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://www.nature.com/natmachintell/volumes/4/issues/5" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAed3edf40-c15a-23fd-e2a9-92275058ccce" target="_blank" href="https://www.nature.com/natmachintell/volumes/4/issues/5">Nature
Machine Intelligence</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. Particularly, endowing robotic arms with large sensorized skins allows the implementation of smart collaborative policies, such as safe interaction and programming by demonstration, that
can be deployed in the factories of the future. Finally, ongoing research directions of large area eSkins and
</span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a style="color: blue; margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="9" data-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-025-01076-w" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAf6789e93-3310-184b-c7f2-11e36f618e93" target="_blank" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-025-01076-w">neuromorphic
touch sensing</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> will be discussed also in the perspective of
</span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a style="color: blue; margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="10" data-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68858-7" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAe6ea4cc9-1340-6bde-d603-e5a68f0d9e5e" target="_blank" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68858-7">sustainable
NeuroAI</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Speaker Biography</b>: </span>
<span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: blue; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><u><a style="color: blue; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" data-linkindex="11" data-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://www.santannapisa.it/en/calogero-maria-oddo" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA1e36bdfe-2a5d-fe77-5ce4-5bea3dab4044" target="_blank" href="https://www.santannapisa.it/en/calogero-maria-oddo">Calogero
Maria Oddo</a></u></b></span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> has a Ph.D. in BioRobotics from Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (SSSA), Pisa, Italy, M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from
the University of Pisa, 1st and 2nd level degrees in Industrial and Information Engineering as a honors college student of SSSA (3% success rate),
<i>all with honors</i>. He is Associate Professor of Bioengineering, he holds the national scientific qualification to be appointed as Full Professor, and he coordinates the
</span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: blue; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><u><a style="color: blue; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" data-linkindex="12" data-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://www.santannapisa.it/en/neuro-robotic-touch-laboratory" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA0f1ac153-21c0-390c-395b-877126c005f1" target="_blank" href="https://www.santannapisa.it/en/neuro-robotic-touch-laboratory">Neuro-Robotic
Touch Laboratory</a></u></span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> at The BioRobotics Institute of SSSA. He has over 130 published studies and several patents, and a track record in integrating biorobotics,
neuroscience and industrial applications, with core of research interests in touch science and engineering. He has 6300+ citations and 36 h-index in Scopus and he serves as member of the editorial board of scientific journals such as Scientific Reports edited
by Springer Nature and the International Journal of Robotics Research. He has a growing portfolio of successful research grants, with scientific responsibilities within EU and National projects and industrial contracts. In 2023 he received the Feltrinelli
Prize for young investigators in bioengineering from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, where he has leadership responsibilities as vice-director of the interdiscilinary center of young scholars.</span></div>
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The <b>Essex BCI-NE Lab webinars series</b> takes place monthly (usually, on the second or third Wednesday of the month) over Zoom and is open to all. Speakers are invited to talk about their research for 45-50 minutes followed by Q&A.</div>
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