Riccardo Vecellio Segate
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About
Riccardo Vecellio Segate is an emerging scholar whose research sits at the intersection of robotics law, AI ethics, and occupational safety regulation, with a particular focus on the governance of collaborative robots — or "cobots" — in industrial and healthcare settings. His most influential work, an ethical framework for human-robot collaboration in future manufacturing environments (2024, 59 citations), developed through dialogue with European ethics experts, has rapidly established itself as a key reference for researchers and policymakers grappling with the societal implications of smart robotics on the factory floor. Complementing this, his legal risk assessment for EU policymakers (2023, 27 citations) addresses the urgent challenge of adapting occupational health and safety law to environments where humans and robots increasingly share tasks, spaces, and responsibilities. More recently, Vecellio Segate has turned his attention to the EU AI Act, examining how its regulatory carve-outs — particularly the medical exception for emotion detection algorithms — affect the deployment of therapeutic cobots in healthcare. His body of work positions him as a thoughtful voice in shaping European regulatory frameworks for human-robot collaboration.
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