A Skype video conference connects Rome and Boston. Fabrizio Taffoni, a researcher at the Università Campus Biomedico (UCBM) in Rome and Professor of Mechatronics for biomedical and bio-design systems, explains to us from the Boston Children's Hospital how mechanics, technological solutions, medicine and robotics can come together.
The UCBM will host this year’s edition of the RomeCup – Excellence in Robotics in Rome (April 16-18, 2018). Together with his colleague Domenico Formica, Fabrizio will coordinate the new robotics contests at the 12th edition of Romecup that will bring together high school and university students.
The theme is Cobots: "developing innovative interfaces for the control of motorised wheelchairs.” Fabrizio explains that the most complex aspect for the students will be understanding the issue of a patient with limited motor abilities and contemporaneously the development of innovative solutions. This entails creativity, but also “concurrent design,” the development of electronic hardware and mechanical parts that work together. The students, who define themselves as robotic experts, will work together with the high-level researchers.
In fact, during the RomeCup, the UCBM will host three parallel sessions on medical and service robotics, engineering and neuro-robotics, and technology for nourishment and health. The UCBM team will also be present at the Awards Ceremony at the Rome Campidoglio on April 18.
Here is the conversation that Fiammetta Castagnini had with Fabrizio Taffoni. It includes not only the presentation of all the novelties of RomeCup 2018, but also the explanation of important technical content, such as concurrent design.
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