Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence

18/06/2025

Researchers in Italy achieved a first flight of iRonCub3, the unique jet-powered flying humanoid robot designed for real-world environments. The robot was able to lift off the floor by approximately 50 cm while maintaining its stability The Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) has reached a groundb...

24/05/2025

20/05/2025

🚨 Exciting week at !
Our team is presenting 2 papers on the future of humanoid robots 🤖👇

🎤 Paper 1 – XBG: eXteroceptive Behaviour Generation
👤 Carlos A. Cardenas Perez
🗓 Tuesday, 11:35–11:40 EDT / 17:35 CEST
📍 Room 314
🔗 [Link in bio]
🧠 XBG enables real-time, full-body interaction on the ergoCub robot using RGB-D vision + proprioception, trained from immersive teleoperation!
💥 Tested in:
🙋‍♂️ Handwaving
🤝 Handshaking
📦 Payload exchange
🚶 Walking
🧍📦 Walking while carrying

🎤 Paper 2 – Online Nonlinear MPC for Multimodal Locomotion
👤 Saverio Taliani
🗓 Thursday, 10:05–10:10 EDT / 16:05 CEST
📍 Room 305
🔗 [Link in bio]
🦿 A nonlinear MPC for iRonCub that controls both flying 🛫 and walking 🚶 — including transitions between the two — online, in real time.

Proud to push the boundaries of human-robot interaction and multimodal locomotion!
Let’s connect in Atlanta 👋

27/11/2024

The IEEE-RAS Technical Committee on Whole-Body Control awarded the Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence (AMI) Unit, headed by Daniele Pucci at IStituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) An international recognition for “exceptional research” in the field of robotics ...