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Edoardo Del Bianco is a robotics researcher whose work centers on advancing human-robot collaboration, teleoperation, and high-force manipulation systems. His key research areas include workspace mapping for teleoperation, multimodal interfaces for collaborative robots, and perception-driven grasping for humanoid platforms. Del Bianco’s major contributions include developing a workspace limit approach based on signed distance functions to smoothly map unreachable leader-side motions to a follower robot’s reachable workspace—a critical advancement for intuitive teleoperation. He also led the design of the RELAX high-payload collaborative robot, integrating a novel unified multimodal interface that enables real-world human-robot collaboration tasks requiring high interaction forces. His work on a high-force gripper with embedded multimodal sensing pushes the boundaries of perception-driven grasping for powerful manipulation. With over 20 citations across his most-cited papers, Del Bianco’s research is gaining traction in the robotics community. Notably, his 2021 paper on workspace limits and his 2023 RELAX interface paper represent foundational contributions to teleoperation and collaborative robotics, respectively. His recent work on task priority adaptation via reinforcement learning and agile quadruped robot design further demonstrates his versatility in tackling both control and mechanical design challenges.