Our work has been selected by the editors as the cover of the forthcoming issue of the Robotics journal. Cover Story (view full-size image): With the introduction of the metaverse, the virtual digital world is going to take a conceptual leap forward. As technology progresses, bringing us new immersive worlds, we must adapt how we educate students and equip teachers to face these new challenges. In this perspective, hands-on laboratory work and practical experience are currently under-

A new paper has been published in the journal of Robotics. The selected article is: Syed Kumayl Raza Moosavi, Muhammad Hamza Zafar and Filippo Sanfilippo. Forward Kinematic Modelling with Radial Basis Function Neural Network Tuned with a Novel Meta-Heuristic Algorithm for Robotic Manipulators. Robotics 11(2), 2022. URL, DOI BibTeX This research is supported by the Top Research Centre Mechatronics (TRCM), University of Agder (UiA), Norway, https://www.uia.n

A new paper has been published in the journal of Robotics. The selected article is: Askan Duivon, Pino Kirsch, Boris Mauboussin, Gabriel Mougard, Jakub Woszczyk and Filippo Sanfilippo. The Redesigned Serpens, a Low-Cost, Highly Compliant Snake Robot. Robotics 11(2), 2022. URL, DOI BibTeX I am particularly proud of this work as it is the result of my students' effort. This research is funded by the Department of Mechanical, Electronic and Chemical Engineeri

A new paper has been published in the journal of Robotics. The selected article is: Hua Minh Tuan, Filippo Sanfilippo and Nguyen Vinh Hao. A Novel Adaptive Sliding Mode Controller for a 2-DOF Elastic Robotic Arm. Robotics 11(2), 2022. URL, DOI BibTeX This work was also supported by the Top Research Centre Mechatronics (TRCM), University of Agder (UiA), Norway. I really thank all my co-authors and I congratulate all of them for their contribution.

Today, Professor Tomas Blažauskas gave a talk to disseminate the latest results from our AugmentedWearEdu project. It was a pleasure to participate to the event organised by Vida Drąsutė at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. This research is funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ Program under Grant 2020-1-NO01-KA203-076540, project title Integrating virtual and AUGMENTED reality with WEARable technology into engineering EDUcation (AugmentedWearEdu), https://augmentedwear

A new paper has been published in the journal of Robotics. The selected article is: Filippo Sanfilippo, Tomas Blazauskas, Gionata Salvietti, Isabel Ramos, Silviu Vert, Jaziar Radianti, Tim A Majchrzak and Daniel Oliveira. A Perspective Review on Integrating VR/AR with Haptics into STEM Education for Multi-Sensory Learning. Robotics 11(2), 2022. URL, DOI BibTeX This research was funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ Program under Grant 2020-1-NO01-KA

A new paper has been published in the journal Energy Conversion and Management. The selected article is: Muhammad Hamza Zafar, Noman Mujeeb Khan, Majad Mansoor, Adeel Feroz Mirza, Syed Kumayl Raza Moosavi, Filippo Sanfilippo. Adaptive ML-based technique for renewable energy system power forecasting in hybrid PV-Wind farms power conversion systems. Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 258, 2022, 115564, ISSN 0196-8904, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2022.115564. This work is supported b

I am very glad to announce that our work titled "Mixed reality (MR) Enabled Proprio and Teleoperation of a Humanoid Robot for Paraplegic Patients" has won the Best Oral Presentation at Session 5 "Robots and Artificial Intelligence" at the 5th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies (ICICT), New York City (virtual), United States, March 4-6, 2022. The awarded paper is: Filippo Sanfilippo, Jesper Smith, Sylvain Bertrand and Tor Halvard Skarberg Svendsen. Mixed reality (M

A new paper has been presented in the Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies (ICICT), New York City (virtual), United States, March 4-6, 2022. The selected article is: Filippo Sanfilippo, Jesper Smith, Sylvain Bertrand and Tor Halvard Skarberg Svendsen. Mixed reality (MR) Enabled Proprio and Teleoperation of a Humanoid Robot for Paraplegic Patients. In Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies (ICICT), New York

PROTV News, a popular Romanian TV channel showcased our research project titled European network for 3D printing of biomimetic mechatronic systems (EMERALD). This is a cooperation project that includes the following partners: Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca), Romania Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania University of Agder (UiA), Norway Bizzcom s.r.o., Slovakia Poznań University of Technology, Poland The entire team is very grateful

I am very glad to announce that our research project titled "European network for 3D printing of biomimetic mechatronic systems" (EMERALD) has received funding under the EEA Grants and Norway Grants. This is a cooperation project that includes the following partners: Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca), Romania Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania University of Agder (UiA), Norway Bizzcom s.r.o., Slovakia Poznań University of Technology,