Bruno Siciliano (engineer)

He is professor of Control and Robotics at the University of Naples Federico II, Chair of the Scientific Council of the ICAROS Center,[1] and Director of the PRISMA Lab[2] at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology.

Fascinated by the readings of Isaac Asimov's books on science fiction and cybernetics, he decided to approach robotics in terms of research.

From September 1985 to June 1986 he was visiting scholar at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

He directs PRISMA Lab, the Laboratory of Projects of Industrial and Service Robotics, Mechatronics and Automation in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI) of the University of Naples Federico II.

He also co-coordinated ECHORD (European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development, 2009–2013),[16] a pilot project for technology transfer from research laboratories to SMEs.

Siciliano is active on the MOOC front of the e-learning platform of the University of Naples Federico II with his two Robotics Foundations I[17] & II[17] courses associated with the contents of his textbook, also available on the edX platform, and participation in Industry 4.0 courses, on enabling technologies underlying the new 4.0 paradigm and Pizza Revolution[18] for research and studies on robotics applied to the art of making pizza.

[19] "Keep the gradient" is the motto that Siciliano invented and means the constant search for new ideas and new solutions:[20][21] a hymn to complexity to seize challenges and opportunities always under the banner of the art of "work and play" as he stated in his TEDx talk[22] in 2016.