Giorgio Metta

15.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
259 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

Giorgio Metta is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Giorgio Metta has authored 259 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 113 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 95 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Giorgio Metta's work include Robot Manipulation and Learning (101 papers), Robotic Locomotion and Control (60 papers) and Tactile and Sensory Interactions (43 papers). Giorgio Metta is often cited by papers focused on Robot Manipulation and Learning (101 papers), Robotic Locomotion and Control (60 papers) and Tactile and Sensory Interactions (43 papers). Giorgio Metta collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and United States. Giorgio Metta's co-authors include Giulio Sandini, Lorenzo Natale, Maurizio Valle, Ravinder Dahiya, Francesco Nori, Paul Fitzpatrick, David Vernon, Marco Maggiali, Giorgio Cannata and Ugo Pattacini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Materials, Applied Physics Letters and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Giorgio Metta

256 papers receiving 9.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Tactile Sensing—From Humans to Humanoids

2009 1.4k citations Giorgio Metta, Giulio Sandini et al. profile →
YARP: Yet Another Robot Platform

2006 441 citations Giorgio Metta, Lorenzo Natale et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Giorgio Metta Italy	48	4.6k	4.2k	3.5k	1.9k	1.8k	259	10.4k
Giulio Sandini Italy	52	3.2k 0.7×	5.1k 1.2×	2.4k 0.7×	2.0k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	376	11.2k
Emanuel Todorov United States	37	4.0k 0.9×	4.9k 1.2×	3.1k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	2.1k 1.2×	88	10.3k
Aude Billard Switzerland	59	4.1k 0.9×	2.8k 0.7×	7.7k 2.2×	2.0k 1.0×	3.4k 1.9×	349	13.0k
Gordon Cheng Germany	42	4.1k 0.9×	2.7k 0.7×	2.4k 0.7×	855 0.4×	911 0.5×	289	7.5k
Yasuo Kuniyoshi Japan	37	2.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.3×	2.3k 0.7×	727 0.4×	1.5k 0.8×	318	6.8k
Lorenzo Natale Italy	33	2.1k 0.5×	1.8k 0.4×	2.1k 0.6×	948 0.5×	1.0k 0.6×	175	5.2k
Rolf Pfeifer Switzerland	40	2.8k 0.6×	2.2k 0.5×	1.5k 0.4×	821 0.4×	2.2k 1.2×	161	7.9k
Stefan Schaal United States	38	3.4k 0.7×	1.8k 0.4×	4.7k 1.4×	841 0.4×	1.9k 1.1×	91	8.1k
Minoru Asada Japan	36	1.2k 0.3×	1.6k 0.4×	1.5k 0.4×	1.2k 0.6×	2.2k 1.2×	412	6.6k
Etienne Burdet United Kingdom	54	6.2k 1.3×	5.4k 1.3×	2.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	260 0.1×	335	11.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giorgio Metta

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Kim, Wansoo, Marta Lorenzini, Pietro Balatti, et al.. (2019). Adaptable Workstations for Human-Robot Collaboration: A Reconfigurable Framework for Improving Worker Ergonomics and Productivity. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 26(3). 14–26. 68 indexed citations

Metta, Giorgio, et al.. (2019). A Systematic Approach to Evaluating and Benchmarking Robotic Hands—The FFP Index. Robotics. 8(1). 7–7. 18 indexed citations

Kompatsiari, Kyveli, Jairo Pérez-Osorio, Davide De Tommaso, Giorgio Metta, & Agnieszka Wykowska. (2018). Neuroscientifically-Grounded Research for Improved Human-Robot Interaction. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 3403–3408. 18 indexed citations

Tomo, Tito Pradhono, Alexander Schmitz, Lorenzo Natale, et al.. (2018). A New Silicone Structure for uSkin—A Soft, Distributed, Digital 3-Axis Skin Sensor and Its Integration on the Humanoid Robot iCub. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 3(3). 2584–2591. 102 indexed citations

Pattacini, Ugo, et al.. (2018). Merging Physical and Social Interaction for Effective Human-Robot Collaboration. 1–9. 7 indexed citations

Kompatsiari, Kyveli, Francesca Ciardo, Vadim Tikhanoff, Giorgio Metta, & Agnieszka Wykowska. (2018). On the role of eye contact in gaze cueing. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 17842–17842. 48 indexed citations

Moulin-Frier, Clément, Tobias Fischer, Ugo Pattacini, et al.. (2017). DAC-h3: A Proactive Robot Cognitive Architecture to Acquire and Express Knowledge About the World and the Self. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. 10(4). 1005–1022. 52 indexed citations

Roncone, Alessandro, Matej Hoffmann, Ugo Pattacini, Luciano Fadiga, & Giorgio Metta. (2016). Peripersonal Space and Margin of Safety around the Body: Learning Visuo-Tactile Associations in a Humanoid Robot with Artificial Skin. PLoS ONE. 11(10). e0163713–e0163713. 39 indexed citations

Bisio, Ambra, Alessandra Sciutti, Francesco Nori, et al.. (2014). Motor Contagion during Human-Human and Human-Robot Interaction. PLoS ONE. 9(8). e106172–e106172. 76 indexed citations

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Fanello, Sean, Carlo Ciliberto, Matteo Santoro, et al.. (2013). iCub World: Friendly Robots Help Building Good Vision Data-Sets. PEARL (University of Plymouth). 700–705. 16 indexed citations

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Pulina, Luca, et al.. (2013). How to Abstract Intelligence? (If Verification Is in Order).. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 3 indexed citations

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Rea, Francesco, Giorgio Metta, & Chiara Bartolozzi. (2013). Event-driven visual attention for the humanoid robot iCub. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 7. 234–234. 25 indexed citations

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Metta, Giorgio, Lorenzo Natale, Francesco Nori, et al.. (2010). The iCub humanoid robot: An open-systems platform for research in cognitive development. Neural Networks. 23(8-9). 1125–1134. 364 indexed citations

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Tikhanoff, Vadim, Angelo Cangelosi, Jun Tani, & Giorgio Metta. (2008). Towards language acquisition in autonomous robots.. Artificial Life. 808. 1 indexed citations

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Natale, Lorenzo, Francesco Orabona, Giorgio Metta, & Giulio Sandini. (2007). Sensorimotor coordination in a “baby” robot: learning about objects through grasping. Progress in brain research. 164. 403–424. 13 indexed citations

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Metta, Giorgio, Giulio Sandini, David Vernon, et al.. (2006). The RobotCub project -- an open framework for research in embodied cognition. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 19 indexed citations

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Tsagarakis, Nikos G., et al.. (2006). Performance Assessment of a 3 DOF Differential Based Waist joint for the "iCub" Baby Humanoid Robot. CINECA IRIS Institutial Research Information System (University of Genoa). 195–201. 12 indexed citations

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Metta, Giorgio, David Vernon, & Giulio Sandini. (2005). The RobotCub Approach to the Development of Cognition. CogPrints (University of Southampton). 1 indexed citations

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Metta, Giorgio, et al.. (2000). Development: Is it the right way towards humanoid robotics?. 1 indexed citations

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Metta, Giorgio, Giulio Sandini, & Jürgen Konczak. (1999). A developmental approach to visually-guided reaching in artificial systems. Neural Networks. 12(10). 1413–1427. 76 indexed citations

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