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.