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Giovanni Maccioni is a forward-thinking researcher at the intersection of digital health, medical robotics, and cybersecurity. His work primarily explores how emerging technologies—from augmented reality (AR) in diagnostic imaging to social robots in physiotherapy—can be responsibly integrated into clinical practice. Maccioni’s most cited paper, “Exploring Augmented Reality Integration in Diagnostic Imaging: Myth or Reality?” (2024, 50 citations), critically examines AR’s transformative potential in medical imaging, offering a comprehensive narrative review that bridges hype and practical application. He has also made significant contributions to the discourse on care robotics, notably through “Opportunities and Problems of the Consensus Conferences in the Care Robotics” (2021, 12 citations), which addresses the ethical and operational challenges of deploying robots in healthcare. A distinctive thread in Maccioni’s work is his focus on information security in medical robotics; his survey on cybersecurity awareness among physiotherapists (2022, 11 citations) highlights critical gaps in training and data privacy. By questioning whether we are “ready for the team play” between social robots and digital physiotherapists, Maccioni pushes the field to consider human-robot collaboration as a practical, secure, and patient-centered reality.