Director of PRISMA Lab — Projects of Industrial and Service Manipulation Robotics — at CREATE / UNINA. ERC Advanced Grant holder, Engelberger Award laureate. Lead of Objective O3.
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Bruno Siciliano directs PRISMA Lab at CREATE — Centro di Ricerca per l’Ingegneria Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni dell’Università di Napoli Federico II. PRISMA — Projects of Industrial and Service Manipulation Robotics — spans seven domains of modern robotics: industrial manipulation, service robotics, aerial robotics, surgical robotics, haptic shared control, human-robot interaction, and motion planning.
The lab’s body of work is the architectural primary source for SYMPHONY’s task-baton interface. Across a decade of RA-L, ICRA, T-RO and IROS papers (2018–2025), the Selvaggio-Pacchierotti-Giordano-Siciliano programme demonstrated in physical hardware that a low-bandwidth supervisory signal can reshape a high-degree-of-freedom autonomous controller into qualitatively different task behaviours — without rewriting the controller. The hero above is what that looks like in cartoon form.
Seven domains of PRISMA. The haptic shared-control sector is the one SYMPHONY transposes — but the rest of the rose is the depth of evidence the lab brings to bear on the transposition.
European Research Council's senior funding tier — granted to investigators whose work has redefined a research field. Siciliano has held an ERC Advanced Grant in robotics.
The IRC's lifetime-achievement award in robotics — named for Joseph Engelberger, considered the father of industrial robotics. Siciliano is a laureate.
The standard reference work for the field. Two editions co-edited with Oussama Khatib — the textbook every robotics engineer trains on.
Derive a narrow scalar control interface by which engineering-task tokens reshape the substrate’s activation regime without modifying its stored structure. Threshold: task-switching latency < 500 ms and state-preservation score ≥ 0.95 (cosine similarity between post-switch resting state and pre-task baseline), over ≥ 100 task-switching trials on both demonstrator codebases.
CREATE-PRISMA leads O3 with Newcastle as a deputy partner — mapping the haptic shared-control formalism (active constraints, virtual fixtures, admittance-based teleoperation) onto a discrete symbolic substrate. The result is the task baton: a small set of scalar modulatory signals, not a prompt window.