Publications and Awards
Rehab Technologies Lab is an award-winning research line of IIT and our teams actively support the scientific community with many publications, dissemination talks and other accomplishments.
Publications
2027
Berti S., Pasquale G., Natale L.
A Baseline Study and Benchmark for Few-Shot Open-Set Action Recognition with Feature Residual Discrimination
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 16815 LNCS, pp. 464-479
2026
Bodo G., Landini E., Brand F., Piccardo A., Gori L., Beltran C., Laffranchi M., Natale L.
A Framework for Assessing Gait Modulation and User Experience in Social Robot Guidance: The R1 Robot as a Lobby Assistant
IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM
2026
Bernagozzi S., Street C., Mansouri M., Natale L.
Congestion-Aware Robot Tour Planning in Crowded Environments
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Conference Paper
Conference
2026
Li Z., Bartolozzi C., Natale L., Glover A.
Event-based Motion & Appearance Fusion for 6D Object Pose Tracking
2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Conference Paper
Conference
2026
Li Z., Glover A., Natale L., Bartolozzi C.
Event-based Optical Flow Using Spatio-temporal Registration
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
2026
Ceola F., Pasquale G., Natale L.
Learning Embodied Intelligence: Lessons from the iCub Community
Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems
Article in Press
Journal
2026
Marra P., Caddeo G., Pattacini U., Natale L.
Multifingered Force-Aware Control for Humanoid Robots
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Conference Paper
Conference
2026
Caddeo G., Marra P., Natale L.
Physically Grounded 3D Generative Reconstruction under Hand Occlusion using Proprioception and Multi-Contact Touch
European Conference on Computer Vision
Conference Paper
Conference
2026
Sartore C., Elobaid M., Rapetti L., Romualdi G., Dafarra S., Piga N.A., Sorrentino I., Viceconte P.M., Traversaro S., Pattacini U., Fiorio L., Draicchio F., Tranfo G., Natale L., Maggiali M., Pucci D.
Towards shared embodied intelligence in humanoid robots through optimization, development and testing of the human-aware ergoCub robot
Nature Machine Intelligence, vol. 8, (no. 8), pp. 1221-1237
2025
Li Z., Glover A., Bartolozzi C., Natale L.
6-DoF Object Tracking with Event-based Optical Flow and Frames
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 18880-18887
2025
Stracquadanio G., Vasile F., Maiettini E., Boccardo N., Natale L.
Bring Your Own Grasp Generator: Leveraging Robot Grasp Generation for Prosthetic Grasping
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 11691-11697
2025
Bernagozzi S., Faraci S., Ghiorzi E., Pedemonte K., Natale L., Tacchella A.
Code Generation and Monitoring for Deliberation Components in Autonomous Robots
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 16762-16767
2025
Vasile F., Maiettini E., Pasquale G., Boccardo N., Natale L.
Continuous Wrist Control on the Hannes Prosthesis: A Vision-Based Shared Autonomy Framework
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 15107-15113
2025
Galliena T., Apicella T., Rosa S., Morerio P., Del Bue A., Natale L.
Embodied Image Captioning: Self-supervised Learning Agents for Spatially Coherent Image Descriptions
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Conference Paper
Conference
2025
Shahidzadeh A.-H., Caddeo G.M., Alapati K., Natale L., Fermuler C., Aloimonos Y.
FeelAnyForce: Estimating Contact Force Feedback from Tactile Sensation for Vision-Based Tactile Sensors
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 251-257
2025
Vasile F., Qiu R.-Z., Natale L., Wang X.
Gaussian-Augmented Physics Simulation and System Identification with Complex Colliders
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol. 38, pp. 111789-111817
Conference Paper
Conference
2025
Lombardi M., Maiettini E., Wykowska A., Natale L.
Gaze Estimation Learning Architecture as Support to Affective, Social and Cognitive Studies in Natural Human–Robot Interaction
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, vol. 15, (no. 1)
2025
Alessi C., Vasile F., Ceola F., Pasquale G., Boccardo N., Natale L.
HannesImitation: Grasping with the Hannes Prosthetic Hand via Imitation Learning
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 10085-10092
Awards
2025
Rehab Technologies.
ADI Index award - Hannes arm
2025
Alessi C., Vasile F., Ceola F., Pasquale G., Boccardo N., Natale L.
Best Poster Award – IROS Workshop on "From Thought to Touch and Back: AI, Neural Interfaces and Sensory Feedback in Prosthetics"
2025
Alessi C., Vasile F., Ceola F., Pasquale G., Boccardo N., Natale L.
Best Poster Award – IROS Workshop on "Shared Autonomy and Sense of Agency"
2025
Laffranchi M., Traverso S., Vaccaro R., Cavallaro L., Canepa M., Boccardo N., Vassallo C., Maludrottu S., De Michieli L., Gruppioni E.
Compasso d'oro international award - Twin exoskeleton
2025
Semprini M.
EMBC Distinguished Lecturer
2025
Laffranchi M.
Member of the Scientific Committee, acted as a reviewer for the scientific projects programme.
2025
Laffranchi M.
Premio ANGI 2025 - Menzione speciale innovazione "Innovation leader award"
2025
Quadrelli D., De Giuseppe S., Sacchini A., Gelmini D., Canepa M.
Towards a clinically viable, modular, dry, high-density interface for prosthetic myocontrol
2024
Macaluso A., Bottino A., Pratticò F.G., Lamberti F., Galletti C., Storchi C., Podda J., Tacchino A., Brichetto G., Boccardo N., et al.
Best Session Presentation - Executive Control in a Mixed Reality Exergame for Motor-Cognitive Rehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis
2024
Laffranchi M.
Member of the Scientific Committee, acted as a reviewer for the scientific projects programme.