Fraunhofer ItaliaNOI Techpark, Seminar room 1 / May 19, 2026, 09:00 - 16:00
Robotics in Practice: From Rehabilitation to Performance
Robotics is rapidly transforming healthcare, rehabilitation, and sports. Advances in artificial intelligence, sensors, and human–machine interaction are enabling new assistive and wearable technologies that support recovery, autonomy, and human performance, both in clinical settings and beyond.
Robotics in Practice is a one-day event organised by Fraunhofer Italia and dedicated to technological innovation in applied robotics. The event brings together research and industry to explore how these technologies are being developed, applied, and translated into real-world solutions.
Through expert talks and real-world case studies, participants will gain insights into current developments and future perspectives, with a focus on applied research and funded projects addressing societal challenges such as an ageing population, rehabilitation needs, and performance support in sports and wellness. Concrete application scenarios from companies based in the South Tyrolean region will illustrate how research can generate tangible impact.
What to expect
– A full day focused on robotics in healthcare, rehabilitation and sports
– Speakers from research and industry for a 360° perspective
– Theory and practice: concrete showcases to highlight the applications of new technologies developed
– All participants will be offered a coffee break, a business lunch and networking opportunities
– Event language: English.
Agenda
| 8:45 | Check-in | ||
| 9:15 | Welcome speech held by Dominik Matt | Director of Fraunhofer Italia | |
| 9:30 | Keynote by Antonio Bicchi |
Chair of Robotics University of Pisa. Head, Soft Robotics Laboratory Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) |
From Human-Robot Interaction to Human-Robot Integration |
| 10:20 | Yeongmi Kim | Professor Department of Medical & Health Technology at MCI, Austria. Assistant Professor Adjunct Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at Yale School of Medicine |
Digital Rehabilitation Robotics: From Functional Assessment to Personalized Therapy |
| 10:50 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:10 | Alessandra Scarton | Research and Development Project Manager Microgate | Technologies for the objective assessment of movement: applications in clinical and sports contexts |
| 11:40 | Edoardo Lamon | Assistant Professor Università di Trento (DISI) Head, Assistive and Medical Robotics group Interdepartmental Robotics Lab (IDRA) |
Towards remote physical examination with collaborative robotics |
| 12:10 | Showcase 1 Maddalena Feder | Research Associate Advanced Robotic Systems – Robotics and Intelligent Systems Engineering Fraunhofer Italia | Healthcare Robotics in Practice: From Clinical Assistance to Active User Control |
| 12:20 | On-site Lunch Break | ||
| 13:30 | Angelika Peer | Full Professor Free University of Bozen-Bolzano | Prediction of gait parameters from Proximal Hip IMUs |
| 14:00 | Julius Michael Waldner | Chief Technology Officer Melittaklinik | New frontiers in neurorehabilitation: case studies of the efficiency and effectiveness of using robotics during the therapy |
| 14:30 | Showcase 2 Marco Todescato | Team Leader Machine Intelligence Development Robotics and Intelligent Systems Engineering Fraunhofer Italia | ARMS project - Assistive Robot for Multipurpose Support |
| 15:00 | Conclusions |
Registration is required within the 12.05.26
For any further information please contact us at events@fraunhofer.it
