Cosimo Della Santina
@CosimoDella
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Associate Prof@TU Delft, Guest@DLR, Founder@Embodied AI AG. Working on Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Control Theory (all the good stuff!). Lawful evil.
Delft, Munich, Pisa, ...
Joined December 2020
🎙️ New episode! @CosimoDella (@tudelft) takes us inside the fascinating world of soft robotics 🤖🐙 Compliance over rigidity, shape as intelligence, and why underactuation may actually be a feature — unmissable! 😄
🎙️ New episode! @DellaSantinaC takes us inside soft robotics — a young, daring field where compliance replaces rigidity, intelligence emerges from shape, and underactuation is a feature, not a flaw. A rare front-row seat to a discipline with more questions than answers. 🚀🧠
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#SoftRobots that can generate spontaneous rhythms, use them to coordinate sequential movements, and react to stimuli from their surroundings could bridge the gap between living beings and #machines, suggests a new Science #Robotics Focus article: https://t.co/MCsWnpU6o3
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A new Science #Robotics Focus article explores how combining different types of physical control strategies, including oscillation, sequence, and reaction, could equip soft robots with #embodied #intelligence. @PRothemund
https://t.co/MCsWnpU6o3
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Advertisement for an advanced course in Udine, Italy 🇮🇹 this summer ☀️. Learn about mechanics for the fabrication and programming of soft robots 🦑. https://t.co/72PJXuY2KG organized along with @biosoftact
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Check this super cool tutorial out! Happening at @IEEERoboSoft 2025 in Lausanne
Check out my announcement that I will deliver my Productivity Workshop at RoboSoft @EPFL in April 2025. Come and get one of the limited spaces.
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Very cool stuff!
Researchers from @UofT perform extensive elastic #StabilityAnalysis of tendon driven continuum robots showing the existence of multiple robot configurations with different shapes, achievable with the same actuation inputs. https://t.co/6NYpm2xigZ
#ContinuumRobots #Kinematics
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I have been part of the hiring process for multiple Assistant Professors at our university. Here are the most common errors that I see that people make A thread 🧵:
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A new Science #Robotics study describes a #prosthetic hand that combines postural information and signals from spinal motor neurons to enable intuitive and dexterous movements such as pinching and grasping. @AntonioBicchi
https://t.co/PvZspKqHOZ
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Wow, this is new! I managed to get a paper rejected by... @arxiv 🧐 They are not telling me why, and they do not seem to be willing to re-assess their decision 🤷♂️ Has anyone had this experience already? Any alternatives to ArXiv⁉️
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Happy New Year! Kicking off 2025 with these calls ❄️ Extended Abstracts (Jan 15) ❄️ Rising Star Talks (Jan 15) ❄️ Competitions (Jan 17) ❄️ Art Submissions (Jan 15) ✨ $1,500 Travel Scholarships (Jan 15) more info: https://t.co/m6gdeAD1Zv
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[Pls RT] Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Computer Vision @BristolUni is now open [DL 6 Jan] This is a research+teaching permanent post within MaVi [ https://t.co/DVRS9hAkj0] in Computer Science. Suitable for strong postdocs or exceptional PhD graduates. https://t.co/Fo7FGnMAge
uob-mavi.github.io
Applications to the 2025 Summer of Research @MaVi have now closed. Machine Learning and Computer Vision Research Group Core faculty ...
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🌟At RoboSoft 2025 we want so showcase the Rising Stars in our community! 🌟 Late stage PhD researchers, postdoctoral researchers, and early career professors are encouraged to submit applications by January 15th. More info and submission form on our website!
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Be Part of the Artistic Revolution at RoboSoft 2025! Do you have a creative project that blends art and technology? Or a keen eye for capturing the beauty of soft robotics? Now’s your chance to shine at RoboSoft 2025 Art Expo & Photography Exhibition! https://t.co/v4uC156Tfm
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Here are 5 mistakes I made in my academic career / leaving academia that I'll share for other folks to learn from (a 🧵):
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PUMA: Deep Metric Imitation Learning for Stable Motion Primitives (Jens Kober and co-workers)
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Imitation learning enables intuitive robotic programming but faces challenges in providing guarantees due to its data-driven nature. To address this, existing methods constrain function approximato...
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We are glad to announce a deadline extension for RoboSoft 2025 papers and workshops. We hope this give IROS travelers the opportunity to still contribute. • Contributed Papers: Oct 31st, 9 a.m. PST • Workshops: Nov 8th, 9 a.m. PST Thank you for the submissions so far!
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What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N
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⚡Newsflash⚡ Deadline extension for conference papers until October 25th 9am PST: https://t.co/EcpqPthMTt. Paper submission through the “open review” platform, making all double-blind reviews openly available post-review https://t.co/1YGmjmracw
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I am pleased to announce that as of today I am an Associate Professor at the University of Pisa @Unipisa. I want to thank all the collaborators and researchers who have crossed my path in this fantastic ride so far. The journey has only just begun. ❤️
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