Elisabetta Versace

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Elisabetta Versace is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of animal behavior, robotics, and agricultural technology, with a primary focus on poultry farming. Her major contributions lie in developing and applying robotic systems to study and improve the welfare of chickens, a field she has helped define. Her most cited work, "Robotics for poultry farming: Challenges and opportunities" (2024, 25 citations), provides a comprehensive review of how robots can address farming challenges, enhance poultry health and welfare, and facilitate robot-chicken interactions, outlining future directions for the industry. In a notable experimental study, "Using RoboChick to Identify the Behavioral Features Promoting Social Interactions" (2021), Versace demonstrated how controlled artificial agents like her "RoboChick" can overcome methodological hurdles in animal behavior research, revealing key behavioral cues that drive social engagement in chickens. This innovative approach bridges ethology and engineering, offering new tools for non-invasive welfare assessment. With a growing citation impact, Versace’s work is shaping sustainable, technology-driven poultry farming and advancing our understanding of animal-robot interaction.