NOI 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)
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
10:50 Coffee Break  
11:10 Alessandra Scarton Research and Development Project Manager Microgate
11:40 Edorado Lamon

Assistant Professor Università di Trento (DISI)

Head, Assistive and Medical Robotics group Interdepartmental Robotics Lab (IDRA)
12:10 Showcase 1 Maddalena Feder Research Associate Advanced Robotic Systems – Robotics and Intelligent Systems Engineering Fraunhofer Italia
12:20 On-site Lunch Break  
13:30 Angelika Peer Full Professor Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
14:00 Julius Michael Waldner Chief Technology Officer Melittaklinik
14:30 Showcas 2 Marco Todescato Team Leader Machine Intelligence Development Robotics and Intelligent Systems Engineering Fraunhofer Italia
15:00 Conclusions  

 

Registration is required within the 12.05.26

For any further information please contact us at events@fraunhofer.it