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“Cultural potential and diffusion of innovation, didactics and research technology,” this is how Engineer Domenico Ricciardi, President of Mare Nostrum srl, defines the Network Agreement for Educational Robotics recently signed in Rome. “I participated in the roundtable held in the Campidoglio with great enthusiasm. It was fantastic to experience something I had been promoting for many years …” he writes in a letter to Professor Alfonso Molina, Scientific Director of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and main promoter of the agreement.
Synergies are necessary to improve quality, technological innovation and youth employment. Mare Nostrum is currently building the largest aquarium in Italy (and the second largest in Europe). Thanks to the collaboration between the Campus Bio-Medico University in Rome and the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa, the aquarium will included robotic fish: from “gardener” octopuses to spy bass. A “taste” of these prototypes was available at the RomeCup – International City of Rome Robotics Trophy to celebrate the signature of the agreement on educational robotics (Campidoglio, 16 March 2011).
Mr. Ricciardi explains in this interview that the Rome Aquarium is an absolute novelty with important objectives to safeguard the Mediterranean. The project addresses research, knowledge circulation, technological innovation and the environment.
