Robotics Research Jam Session
Since 2011, on occasion of the graduation of our Ph.D. students in Robotics, we invite distinguished guests in the jury and take the opportunity to build a very informal brainstorming workshop.
The casual style of arranging talk topics and the interaction of enthusiastic researchers creates an interesting "jam session" style, which we are repeating ever since.
Current Edition: RRJS'26
Dates 13-14 July 2026
Location
- Pacinotti Room, School of Engineering - Largo Lucio Lazzarino 1 56122 Pisa, Italy
- Online via MS Teams
PROGRAMME
July 13
9:00-10:15 Giuseppe Milazzo - PhD Defense “Toward Natural Bionic Limbs Through Musculoskeletal and Sensorimotor Embodiment”
Defense LINK TEAMS
10:15-11:30 Giorgio Simonini - PhD Defense “Manipulators Adaptability in Uncertain Scenarios for Dynamic Tasks”
Defense LINK TEAMS
11:30-11:45 Short break
11:45-13:00 Davide de Benedittis - PhD Defense “Optimization Methods for Prioritized Control, Sampling Design, and Motion Planning in Robotics”
Defense LINK TEAMS
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15 Lorenzo Paiola - PhD Defense “Risk Aware and Reliable Robot Autonomy”
Defense LINK TEAMS
15:15-16:15 Giulia Pagnanelli - PhD Defense “Human-Inspired Tactile Sensing and Feedback for Extended Reality and Robotics-Enabled Medical Applications”
Defense LINK TEAMS
16:15-17:00 Break
Jam Session Talks LINK TEAMS
17:00-17:15 Antonio Bicchi – Welcome
17:15-17:45 Christian Cipriani - Talk “TBA”
17:45-18:15 Marco Controzzi - Talk “TBA”
18:15-18:45 Giuseppe Notarstefano - Talk “Learning-driven Optimization and Safe Control of Autonomous and Distributed Robots”
20:30 Social Dinner
July 14
9:00-10:15 Simone Tolomei- PhD Defense “Learning contact-rich loco-manipulation”
Defense LINK TEAMS
10:15-11:30 Elena Stracca - PhD Defense “Risk-Aware Decision-Making and Motion Planning for Robots in Shared Dynamic Environments”
Defense LINK TEAMS
11:30-11:45 Short break
11:45-13:00 Giuseppe Infantone - PhD Defense “Imitation Learning for Constrained Robot Motion and Skill Adaptation”
Defense LINK TEAMS
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15 Matteo Crotti - PhD Defense “From Human Ankle-Foot Dynamics to Bionic Locomotion: the SoftFoot Paradigm”
Defense LINK TEAMS
Jam Session Talks LINK TEAMS
15:15-15:45 Edoardo Lamon - Talk “Towards Remote Physical Examination with Collaborative Robotics”
15:45-16:15 Andrea Garulli - Talk “Reinforcement Learning Approaches to Human-Aware Robot Navigation”
16:15-17:00 Break
17:00-17:30 Jens Kober - Talk “TBA”
17:30-18:00 Masoumeh Mansouri - Talk “Robust Decision Making in Multi-Agent Systems”
18:00-18:15 Lucia Pallottino - Closing Remarks
|
Past Editions |
Speakers in the Past Editions:
|
Arash Ajoudani |
Marc Ernst |
Matteo Leonetti |
|
Alin Albu-Schäffer |
Adriano Fagiolini |
Achim Lilienthal |
|
Tamim Asfour |
Egidio Falotico |
Franziska Meier |
|
Gabriel Baud-Bovy |
Cesare Fantuzzi |
Arianna Menciassi |
|
Massimo Bergamasco |
Roy Featherstone |
Silvestro Micera |
|
Maren Bennewitz |
Vincenzo Ferrari |
Igor Mordatach |
|
Marco Bettiol |
Fanny Ficuciello |
Marcia K. O'Malley |
|
Matteo Bianchi |
Paolo Fiorini |
Claudio Pacchierotti |
|
Jeanette Bohg |
Antonio Franchi |
Lucia Pallottino |
|
Oliver Brock |
Antonio Frisoli |
Antonio Pascoal |
|
Etienne Burdet |
Manuel G. Catalano |
Wilfrid Perruquetti |
|
Wolfram Burgard |
Marco Gabiccini |
Domenico Prattichizzo |
|
Andrea Caiti |
Manolo Garabini |
Paolo Robuffo-Giordano |
|
Darwin Caldwell |
Clement Gosselin |
Paolo Rocco |
|
Giorgio Cannata |
Giorgio Grioli |
Alberto Rodriguez |
|
Danilo Caporale |
Roderic Grupen |
Gionata Salvetti |
|
Francois Chaumette |
Sami Haddadin |
Marco Santello |
|
Monique Chyba |
Chris Hauser |
Paolo Tripicchio |
|
Han-Lim Choi |
Vincent Hayward |
Nikos Tsagarakis |
|
Christian Ciprianii |
Seth Hutchinson |
Giuseppe Turchetti |
|
Maura Casadio |
Matt Johnson-Roberson |
Gaetano Valenza |
|
J. Edward Colgate |
Henrik Jorntell |
Herman Van der Kooij |
|
Riccardo Costanzi |
Astrid Kappers |
Bram Vanderborght |
|
Mark R. Cutrosky |
Mitsuo Kawato |
Marilena Vendittelli |
|
Alessandro De Luca |
Oussama Khatib |
Yon Visell |
|
Leonardo De Mattos |
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker |
Andrea M. Zanchettin |
|
Alexander Dietrich |
Kostas Kyryakopoulos |
|
|
Magnus Egerstedt |
Jean-Paul Laumond |