Max Robotics — Global Service Robot Directory + US Certification

About

Giovanni Stellin is a robotics researcher whose work spans embodied cognition, humanoid robot design, and human-robot collaboration in industrial settings. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to the RobotCub project, a landmark EU-funded initiative that developed the iCub — an open humanoid robotic platform designed to advance research in embodied cognition. This influential 2006 paper has accumulated 30 citations and remains a foundational reference in the field. Alongside this, Stellin made significant contributions to the mechanical design of anthropomorphic dexterous hands for the iCub platform, engineering a sophisticated 20-degree-of-freedom hand driven by just 9 motors to maximize the robot's capacity for cognitive exploration through physical interaction. These hardware design efforts, documented across multiple publications, reflect a deep commitment to bridging biomechanics and robotics. More recently, Stellin has extended his expertise into collaborative industrial robotics, contributing to the PIROS project — a cooperative, reconfigurable robotic companion for CNC machine tending — which has garnered 29 citations since 2020. His career reflects a consistent focus on designing robots that interact safely and meaningfully with both the physical world and human operators.