Stefano Palagi
Post Doc

About
Stefano Palagi obtained his M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2009 at the University of Pisa, Italy. In January 2013, he received a Ph.D. in “Innovative Technologies – Biorobotics” at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa, Italy). From February 2013 to January 2014 he was a research fellow at the Center for Micro-BioRobotics@SSSA (Pisa, Italy) of Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. Since January 2014, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Stuttgart, Germany) in the Max Planck Research Group for Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems. From June 2015, he was also a fellow of the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems. Since May 2018 he is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Micro-BioRobotics@SSSA (Pisa, Italy) of Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. His research interests include the development of soft bioinspired robots at small scales, as well as of innovative actuation mechanisms and control schemes for soft robots.
Interests
soft robotics; bioinspired robotics; microroboticsIIT Publications
- 2020
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A High-Fidelity Phantom for the Simulation and Quantitative Evaluation of Transurethral Resection of the Prostate
Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 48, (no. 1), pp. 437-446 -
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Soft Robotic Locomotion by Peristaltic Waves in Granular Media
2020 3rd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, RoboSoft 2020, pp. 223-228 - 2019
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A magnetic actuation system for the active microrheology in soft biomaterials
Proceedings of MARSS 2019: 4th International Conference on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales -
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Light-Controlled Micromotors and Soft Microrobots
Advanced Optical Materials, vol. 7, (no. 16) -
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Soft continuous surface for micromanipulation driven by light-controlled hydrogels
Proceedings of MARSS 2019: 4th International Conference on Manipulation, Automation, and Robotics at Small Scales -
Soft Microrobots Based on Photoresponsive Materials
Mechanically Responsive Materials for Soft Robotics, Publisher: Wiley-VCH - 2018
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Acoustic Fabrication via the Assembly and Fusion of Particles
Advanced Materials, vol. 30, (no. 3) -
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Bioinspired microrobots
Nature Reviews Materials, vol. 3, (no. 6), pp. 113-124 -
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Gait Learning for Soft Microrobots Controlled by Light Fields
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 6199-6206 -
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Nanoscale Robotic Agents in Biological Fluids and Tissues
The Encyclopedia of Medical Robotics - Volume 2: Micro and Nano Robotics in Medicine, Publisher: World Scientific -
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Soft miniaturized linear actuators wirelessly powered by rotating permanent magnets
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3595-3600 - 2017
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Active Acoustic Surfaces Enable the Propulsion of a Wireless Robot
Advanced Materials Interfaces, vol. 4, (no. 21) -
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Locomotion of light-driven soft microrobots through a hydrogel via local melting
International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales, MARSS 2017 - Proceedings -
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Micro- and nanorobots in Newtonian and biological viscoelastic fluids
Microbiorobotics: Biologically Inspired Microscale Robotic Systems: Second Edition, pp. 133-162, Publisher: Elsevier Inc. -
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Wireless Acoustic-Surface Actuators for Miniaturized Endoscopes
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 9, (no. 49), pp. 42536-42543 - 2016
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Auxetic metamaterial simplifies soft robot design
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, vol. 2016-June, pp. 4951-4956 -
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Soft continuous microrobots with multiple intrinsic degrees of freedom
2016 International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales, MARSS 2016 -
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Structured light enables biomimetic swimming and versatile locomotion of photoresponsive soft microrobots
Nature Materials, vol. 15, (no. 6), pp. 647-653 -
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Towards photo-induced swimming: Actuation of liquid crystalline elastomer in water
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 9738 -
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Wireless actuation with functional acoustic surfaces
Applied Physics Letters, vol. 109, (no. 19) -
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Wireless actuator based on ultrasonic bubble streaming
2016 International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales, MARSS 2016 - 2015
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3D-printed soft microrobot for swimming in biological fluids
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings, vol. 2015-November, pp. 4922-4925 - 2014
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A power-efficient propulsion method for magnetic microrobots
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, vol. 11, (no. 1) -
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Navigation of magnetic microrobots with different user interaction levels
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 11, (no. 3), pp. 818-827 - 2013
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Bioinspired design and energetic feasibility of an autonomous swimming microrobot
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8064 LNAI, pp. 415-417 -
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How does buoyancy of hydrogel microrobots affect their magnetic propulsion in liquids?
Applied Physics Letters, vol. 102, (no. 12) -
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Propulsion of swimming microrobots inspired by metachronal waves in ciliates: From biology to material specifications
Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, vol. 8, (no. 4) - 2012
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Modeling of a propulsion mechanism for swimming microrobots inspired by ciliate metachronal waves
Proceedings of the IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, pp. 264-269 -
Propulsion of magnetic microrobots in the vascular vessels of lower limbs: preliminary study
Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, CARS 2012, June 27-30 Pisa, Italy -
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Wireless swimming microrobots: Design and development of a 2 DoF magnetic-based system
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3455-3460 - 2011
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Controlled magnetic propulsion of floating polymeric two-dimensional nano-objects
Advanced Robotics, vol. 25, (no. 8), pp. 1029-1047 -
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Design and development of a soft magnetically-propelled swimming microrobot
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 5109-5114 -
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Novel smart concepts for designing swimming soft microrobots
Procedia Computer Science, vol. 7, pp. 264-265 - 2010
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Magnetic nanofilms for biomedical applications
Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine, vol. 1, (no. 2)
Scientific Talks
- 2019
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Soft continuous surface for micromanipulation driven by light-controlled hydrogels
Awards
[NOMINATION] Best Conference Paper Award, MARSS2019
Best Oral Paper Award, 10th Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics
Best Student Reviewer Award, 4th IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob2012)