Cecilia Laschi is Associate Professor of Biorobotics at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy. She graduated in Computer Science at the University of Pisa in 1993 and received the Ph. D. in Robotics from the University of Genoa in 1998. Since 1992 she is with the ARTS Lab (Advanced Robotics Technology and Systems Laboratory) of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy. From July 2001 to June 2002 she was visiting researcher at the Humanoid Robotics Institute of the Waseda University in Tokyo, as JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Fellow. She is also with the RoboCasa and Robot-An? joint labs of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and Waseda University and with the Research Centre on Sea Technologies and Marine Robotics of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Livorno.
Her research interests are in the field of biorobotics. Starting from basic robotics research, she has been investigated bioinspired solutions for personal and service robotics. She has been working in neuro-robotics, that is the application of robotics in neuroscience research, and bionics, where she explored the field of natural interfaces. She investigated and developed bioinspired sensory-motor control schemes for humanoid robotics. She is currently working on biomimetic robotics, investigating animal and vegetal systems from an engineering point of view and with engineering tools, and designing robotic replicas that can fully explain the biological working principles and mechanisms. She also works in neurodevelopmental engineering, designing and developing sensorized devices (toys) for quantitative monitoring of children development.
She has been and currently is involved in many National and EU-funded projects, in the field of biorobotics. She has authored/co-authored more than 100 papers, appeared in international journals and conference proceedings. She is Guest Co-Editor? of a Special Issue of the journal Autonomous Robots on ”Bioinspired Sensory-Motor? Coordination”, of ...
