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Chiara Gaudeni is a robotics researcher whose work bridges soft sensing, surgical robotics, and human augmentation. Her primary research areas include pneumatic force sensing for robot-assisted surgery, soft sensorized surfaces for industrial manipulation, and supernumerary robotic limbs for human motor augmentation. Gaudeni’s major contributions include the development of a novel pneumatic force sensor designed to restore tactile feedback in minimally invasive surgery, with her foundational 2018 paper on this topic accumulating 11 citations. She further advanced this work with a mathematical model of the sensor in 2019 (8 citations), providing a theoretical framework for estimating contact forces during surgical procedures. In robotic manipulation, Gaudeni introduced the SoftPad, a soft sensorized layer that enables rigid industrial grippers to exploit environmental constraints for robust grasping—a concept detailed in her 2020 paper (9 citations). Her 2024 work on supernumerary robotic limbs explores how the human body’s redundancy can be leveraged to control additional robotic appendages for rehabilitation and functional augmentation. Through these innovations, Gaudeni is shaping safer, more adaptive robotic systems for both surgical and industrial applications.