Cecilia Laschi

Cecilia Laschi

Cecilia Laschi is best-known for her research in soft robotics, an area that she pioneered internationally. She investigates how to build robots with soft materials, studying the octopus as a model for robotics. She explores marine applications of soft robots and their use in the biomedical field, with a focus on eldercare. She has worked in humanoid and neuro-robotics, applying brain models to humanoid robots.

Cecilia Laschi is Provost’s Chair Professor at the National University of Singapore and the Director of the Advanced Robotics Centre. She is a Professor on leave from the BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy.

She is IEEE Fellow and AAAS member. She is Editor-in-Chief of Bioinspiration & Biomimetics and Specialty Chief Editor of Soft Robotics in Frontiers in Robotics & AI. She is Editorial Board member of Science RoboticsIEEE Robotics & Automation LettersInternational Journal of Robotics Research, and the Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents (IRAA) Series of MIT Press.

She founded the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) in 2018. She co-founded the start-up company RoboTech, in edutainment robotics.

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