• About Us

    Research group developing textile-based robots for assistance and rehabilitation.

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  • People

    Our research team encompasses a broad range of backgrounds, from hard mechanical engineering to fashion design, thus leveraging and combining diverse kinds of expertise to advance textile-based robotics and science at large.

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  • Projects

    In our research projects, hard and soft robotics intertwine to power sensorimotor rehabilitation and assistance. With our group growing, we aim at making the potential of textile-based robots a reality.

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Team Members

Researchers and PhD Students

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Ongoing Projects

European and National Grants

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Publications

Journal and conference publications

Wearable Assistive Robotics

While traditional robots are separate, plant-powered entities to engage and disengage with, wearable robots are designed to continuously connect to end users in a stand-alone fashion, resembling what clothes do and assisting in real-world tasks.

Textile Sensors and Actuators

Textile materials can be engineered into sensors as well as into actuators, thus endowing wearable robots with soft, compliant, and comfortable elements, which help further reduce the gap between humans and machines as well as weight and costs.

Rehabilitation Robotics

Robots combining hard and soft elements can unlock a potential that would be otherwise unachievable. In rehabilitation robotics, this approach offers mechanical stability together with greater flexibility and a gentler physical user interface.

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07 July 2025

Submissions are open for our IROS2025 Workshop “Textile Robotics: a Material (R)Evolution”

IROS2025 is going to be in Hangzhou, China, 19-25 October. Join us at our workshop on textile robotics!

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