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The PhD Program in Biorobotics Science and Engineering aims at training highly competent researchers with the potential to lead Biorobotics research worldwide.

Biorobotics is a new scientific and technological area with a unique interdisciplinary character. It derives its methodology mainly from the sectors of Robotics and Biomedical Engineering, but boasts its cultural and application scope towards many sectors of engineering, towards basic and applied science (medicine, neuroscience, economics, law, bio/nanotechnologies in particular), and even towards humanities (philosophy, sociology, psychology, ethics).

Biorobotics aims at increasing knowledge on how biological systems work by analyzing them from a "biomechatronic" viewpoint, and exploiting this knowledge in order to develop innovative methodologies and technologies, both for the design and construction of high performance bio-inspired machines and systems (at the macro, micro and nano scales), such as animaloid and humanoid robots, and for developing devices for biomedical applications, e.g., for minimally-invasive surgery and neuro-rehabilitation.

The program will impart on its graduates a professional profile that combines substantial technical and scientific expertise in advanced areas, and a system-oriented approach to design problems, with a vision that retains man at the centre of the development and the evaluation of technology, and with the capability of conceiving and designing new and innovative (including industrial) research projects, with an autonomous entrepreneurship capability.
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BSE Seminars:
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Graduation Session PhD BSE   (24th April 2009)
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Graduation Session PhD BSE   (22nd April 2008)
Various Lecturers
Scuola di Formazione ADI 2007   (27th January 2007)
Various Lecturers
Riflessioni sull'identità   (16th December 2006)
Various Lecturers
New Business Models in the Paper District:
University Research, Technology Transfer, Services and Contractual Solutions   (7th December 2006)
Alberto Alesina
Goodbye Europa. Cronache di un Declino Economico e Politico   (9th November 2006)
Trevor M. Jones
Medicine & vaccines for the developing world: Access, Intellectual Property and Challenges   (10th April 2006)
Oussama kathib
Dynamic Control of Robots and Humanoids   (23rd February 2006)
Various Lecturers
Capitale Umano e Università in Italia   (16th December 2005)
Various Lecturers
Ricerca, Innovazione, Competitività: Una Prospettiva Internazionale   (5th December 2005)
Various Lecturers
Conceptual modeling of enterprises   (4th November 2005)
Alain Berthoz
Brain, Space and Movement   (25th October 2005)
Mark Cutkosky
Cretive Engineering   (27th June 2005)
Various Lecturers
Joint Lecture   (6th April 2005)
Various Lecturers
Joint Robotics-Neuroscience Lecture   (16th March 2005)