Development of a soft gripper for replicating human grasps in forest nursery tasks.

Marcello Calisti https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2590-188X https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q57134125

Mohammad Sheikh Sofla Hanita Golshanian Elizabeth I. Sklar Marcello Calisti Development of a soft gripper for replicating human grasps in forest nursery tasks. 104987 2025 189 Robotics Auton. Syst. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2025.104987 db/journals/ras/ras189.html#SoflaGSC25 streams/journals/ras

Mohammad Sheikh Sofla Abdurrahman Yilmaz Grzegorz Cielniak Marcello Calisti Stiffness estimation of delicate objects using a soft haptic whisker. 1-6 2025 RoboSoft https://doi.org/10.1109/RoboSoft63089.2025.11020865 conf/robosoft/2025 db/conf/robosoft/robosoft2025.html#SoflaYCC25 streams/conf/robosoft Fabio Taddei Dalla Torre Omar Faris Philip H. Johnson Marcello Calisti Toward autonomous blackberry harvesting with a soft gripper and vision-controlled robotic arm. 1-8 2025 RoboSoft https://doi.org/10.1109/RoboSoft63089.2025.11020923 conf/robosoft/2025 db/conf/robosoft/robosoft2025.html#TorreFJC25 streams/conf/robosoft

Soumo Emmanuel Arnaud Marcello Calisti Athanasios Polydoros Data-Driven Greenhouse Climate Regulation in Lettuce Cultivation Using BiLSTM and GRU Predictive Control. 2025 July abs/2507.21669 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.21669 db/journals/corr/corr2507.html#abs-2507-21669 streams/journals/corr

Giacomo Picardi Saverio Iacoponi Matias Carandell Jorge Aguirregomezcorta Mrudul Chellapurath Joaquín del Río Marcello Calisti Jacopo Aguzzi An Open Toolkit for Underwater Field Robotics. 2025 December abs/2512.15597 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.15597 db/journals/corr/corr2512.html#abs-2512-15597 streams/journals/corr

Marcello Calisti Li Wen Editorial: The future of bio-inspired robotics: an early career scientists' perspective. 2024 11 Frontiers Robotics AI https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2024.1370948 db/journals/firai/firai11.html#CalistiW24

Anna Astolfi Mrudul Chellapurath Giacomo Picardi Martina Capriotti Kayla Mladinich Cecilia Laschi Sergio Stefanni Marcello Calisti Marine Sediment Sampling With an Underwater Legged Robot: A User-Driven Sampling Approach for Microplastic Analysis. 62-71 2024 March 31 IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2023.3341288 db/journals/ram/ram31.html#AstolfiCPCMLSC24

Giacomo Picardi Anna Astolfi Marcello Calisti Seabed intervention with an underwater legged robot. 6247-6253 2024 ICRA https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611135 conf/icra/2024 db/conf/icra/icra2024.html#PicardiAC24 Philip H. Johnson Kai Junge E. Charles Whitfield Josie Hughes Marcello Calisti Field-evaluated Closed Structure Soft Gripper Enhances the Shelf Life of Harvested Blackberries. 9382-9388 2024 ICRA https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610387 conf/icra/2024 db/conf/icra/icra2024.html#JohnsonJWHC24 Anna Astolfi Marcello Calisti Articulated legs allow energy optimization across different speeds for legged robots with elastically suspended loads. 1-7 2023 RoboSoft https://doi.org/10.1109/RoboSoft55895.2023.10121949 conf/robosoft/2023 db/conf/robosoft/robosoft2023.html#AstolfiC23 Philip H. Johnson Mini Rai Marcello Calisti Fabrication and Characterization of a Passive Variable Stiffness Joint based on Shear Thickening Fluids. 1-6 2023 RoboSoft https://doi.org/10.1109/RoboSoft55895.2023.10122061 conf/robosoft/2023 db/conf/robosoft/robosoft2023.html#JohnsonRC23 Mohammad Sheikh Sofla Srikishan Vayakkattil Marcello Calisti Spatial Position Estimation of Lightweight and Delicate Objects using a Soft haptic Probe. 1-6 2023 RoboSoft https://doi.org/10.1109/RoboSoft55895.2023.10122004 conf/robosoft/2023 db/conf/robosoft/robosoft2023.html#SoflaVC23 Srikishan Vayakkattil Grzegorz Cielniak Marcello Calisti Plant Phenotyping Using DLT Method: Towards Retrieving the Delicate Features in a Dynamic Environment. 3-14 2023 TAROS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43360-3_1 conf/taros/2023 db/conf/taros/taros2023.html#VayakkattilCC23

Angela Mazzeo Jacopo Aguzzi Marcello Calisti Simonepietro Canese Fabrizio Vecchi Sergio Stefanni Marco Controzzi Marine Robotics for Deep-Sea Specimen Collection: A Systematic Review of Underwater Grippers. 648 2022 22 Sensors 2 https://doi.org/10.3390/s22020648 db/journals/sensors/sensors22.html#MazzeoACCVSC22

Angela Mazzeo Jacopo Aguzzi Marcello Calisti Simonepietro Canese Michela Angiolillo A. Louise Allcock Fabrizio Vecchi Sergio Stefanni Marco Controzzi Marine Robotics for Deep-Sea Specimen Collection: A Taxonomy of Underwater Manipulative Actions. 1471 2022 22 Sensors 4 https://doi.org/10.3390/s22041471 db/journals/sensors/sensors22.html#MazzeoACCAAVSC22

Costanza Armanini Madiha Farman Marcello Calisti Francesco Giorgio-Serchi Cesare Stefanini Federico Renda Flagellate Underwater Robotics at Macroscale: Design, Modeling, and Characterization. 731-747 2022 38 IEEE Trans. Robotics 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2021.3094051 db/journals/trob/trob38.html#ArmaniniFCSSR22

Anna Astolfi Giacomo Picardi Marcello Calisti Multilegged Underwater Running With Articulated Legs. 1841-1855 2022 38 IEEE Trans. Robotics 3 https://doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2021.3118204 db/journals/trob/trob38.html#AstolfiPC22

Giacomo Picardi Helmut Hauser Cecilia Laschi Marcello Calisti Morphologically induced stability on an underwater legged robot with a deformable body. 2021 40 Int. J. Robotics Res. 1 https://doi.org/10.1177/0278364919840426 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q128202204 db/journals/ijrr/ijrr40.html#PicardiHLC21

Jacopo Aguzzi Corrado Costa Marcello Calisti Fabrizio Vecchi Lewis Dartnell Valerio Funari Peter Weiss Kathrin Nowak Sergio Stefanni Damianos Chatzievangelou Roberto Danovaro Simone Marini Helena Gomes Research Trends and Future Perspectives in Marine Biomimicking Robotics. 3778 2021 21 Sensors 11 https://doi.org/10.3390/s21113778 db/journals/sensors/sensors21.html#StefanniADCGCVD21

Giacomo Picardi Rossana Lovecchio Marcello Calisti Towards autonomous area inspection with a bio-inspired underwater legged robot. 930-935 2021 IROS https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS51168.2021.9636316 conf/iros/2021 db/conf/iros/iros2021.html#PicardiLC21 Enrico Donato Giacomo Picardi Marcello Calisti Statics Optimization of a Hexapedal Robot Modelled as a Stewart Platform. 370-380 2021 TAROS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89177-0_39 conf/taros/2021 db/conf/taros/taros2021.html#DonatoPC21

Jiaqi Liu 0006 Saverio Iacoponi Cecilia Laschi Li Wen Marcello Calisti Underwater Mobile Manipulation: A Soft Arm on a Benthic Legged Robot. 12-26 2020 27 IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. 4 https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2020.3024001 db/journals/ram/ram27.html#LiuILWC20

Giacomo Picardi Mrudul Chellapurath Saverio Iacoponi Sergio Stefanni Cecilia Laschi Marcello Calisti Bioinspired underwater legged robot for seabed exploration with low environmental disturbance. 2020 5 Sci. Robotics 42 https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.aaz1012 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q100458131 db/journals/scirobotics/scirobotics5.html#ChellapurathISL20 1012

Giacomo Picardi Clara Borrelli Augusto Sarti Giovanni Chimienti Marcello Calisti A Minimal Metric for the Characterization of Acoustic Noise Emitted by Underwater Vehicles. 6644 2020 20 Sensors 22 https://doi.org/10.3390/s20226644 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q102376046 db/journals/sensors/sensors20.html#PicardiBSCC20

Marcello Calisti Francesco Giorgio-Serchi Cesare Stefanini Madiha Farman Irfan Hussain Costanza Armanini Dongming Gan Lakmal D. Seneviratne Federico Renda Design, Modeling and Testing of a Flagellum-inspired Soft Underwater Propeller Exploiting Passive Elasticity. 3328-3334 2019 IROS https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS40897.2019.8967700 conf/iros/2019 db/conf/iros/iros2019.html#CalistiSSFHAGSR19 Saverio Iacoponi Giacomo Picardi Mrudul Chellapurath Marcello Calisti Cecilia Laschi Underwater soft jet propulsion based on a hoberman mechanism. 449-454 2018 RoboSoft https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOSOFT.2018.8405367 conf/robosoft/2018 db/conf/robosoft/robosoft2018.html#IacoponiPCCL18

Marcello Calisti Matteo Cianchetti Mariangela Manti Francesco Corucci Cecilia Laschi Contest-Driven Soft-Robotics Boost: The RoboSoft Grand Challenge. 2016 3 Frontiers Robotics AI https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2016.00055 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58643710 db/journals/firai/firai3.html#CalistiCMCL16 55

Marcello Calisti Egidio Falotico Cecilia Laschi Hopping on Uneven Terrains With an Underwater One-Legged Robot. 461-468 2016 1 IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2016.2521928 db/journals/ral/ral1.html#CalistiFL16

Michele Giorelli Federico Renda Marcello Calisti Andrea Arienti Gabriele Ferri 0002 Cecilia Laschi Neural Network and Jacobian Method for Solving the Inverse Statics of a Cable-Driven Soft Arm With Nonconstant Curvature. 823-834 2015 31 IEEE Trans. Robotics 4 https://doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2015.2428511 db/journals/trob/trob31.html#GiorelliRCAFL15

Francesco Corucci Marcello Calisti Helmut Hauser Cecilia Laschi Novelty-Based Evolutionary Design of Morphing Underwater Robots. 145-152 2015 GECCO https://doi.org/10.1145/2739480.2754686 conf/gecco/2015 db/conf/gecco/gecco2015.html#CorucciCHL15 Francesco Corucci Marcello Calisti Helmut Hauser Cecilia Laschi Evolutionary discovery of self-stabilized dynamic gaits for a soft underwater legged robot. 337-344 2015 ICAR https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAR.2015.7251477 conf/icar/2015 db/conf/icar/icar2015.html#CorucciCHL15

Federico Renda Michele Giorelli Marcello Calisti Matteo Cianchetti Cecilia Laschi Dynamic Model of a Multibending Soft Robot Arm Driven by Cables. 1109-1122 2014 30 IEEE Trans. Robotics 5 https://doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2014.2325992 db/journals/trob/trob30.html#RendaGCCL14

Marcello Calisti Francesco Corucci Andrea Arienti Cecilia Laschi Bipedal Walking of an Octopus-Inspired Robot. 35-46 2014 Living Machines https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09435-9_4 conf/lm/2014 db/conf/lm/lm2014.html#CalistiCAL14 Michele Giorelli Federico Renda Marcello Calisti Andrea Arienti Gabriele Ferri 0002 Cecilia Laschi A two dimensional inverse kinetics model of a cable driven manipulator inspired by the octopus arm. 3819-3824 2012 ICRA https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225254 conf/icra/2012 db/conf/icra/icra2012.html#GiorelliRCAFL12 Marcello Calisti Andrea Arienti Federico Renda Guy Levy Binyamin Hochner Barbara Mazzolai Paolo Dario Cecilia Laschi Design and development of a soft robot with crawling and grasping capabilities. 4950-4955 2012 ICRA https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224671 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q61988417 conf/icra/2012 db/conf/icra/icra2012.html#CalistiARLHMDL12 Marcello Calisti Michele Giorelli Cecilia Laschi A Locomotion Strategy for an Octopus-Bioinspired Robot. 337-338 2012 Living Machines https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31525-1_31 conf/lm/2012 db/conf/lm/lm2012.html#CalistiGL12 Michele Giorelli Federico Renda Andrea Arienti Marcello Calisti Matteo Cianchetti Gabriele Ferri 0002 Cecilia Laschi Inverse and Direct Model of a Continuum Manipulator Inspired by the Octopus Arm. 347-348 2012 Living Machines https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31525-1_36 conf/lm/2012 db/conf/lm/lm2012.html#GiorelliRACCFL12 Silvia Orlandi Leonardo Bocchi Marcello Calisti Gianpaolo Donzelli Claudia Manfredi Recovery of oxygen saturation level in newborns. 15-18 2009 MAVEBA https://www.isca-archive.org/maveba_2009/orlandi09_maveba.html conf/maveba/2009 db/conf/maveba/maveba2009.html#OrlandiBCDM09 Nicola Vanello Nicola Martini Matteo Milanesi H. Keiser Marcello Calisti Leonardo Bocchi Claudia Manfredi Luigi Landini Evaluation of a pitch estimation algorithm for speech emotion recognition. 29-32 2009 MAVEBA https://www.isca-archive.org/maveba_2009/vanello09_maveba.html conf/maveba/2009 db/conf/maveba/maveba2009.html#VanelloMMKCBML09 Marcello Calisti Leonardo Bocchi Claudia Manfredi Isabella Romagnoli F. Gigliotti Gianpaolo Donzelli Automatic detection of post-apnoeic snore events from home and clinical full night sleep recordings. 189-192 2009 MAVEBA https://www.isca-archive.org/maveba_2009/calisti09_maveba.html conf/maveba/2009 db/conf/maveba/maveba2009.html#CalistiBMRGD09 Lucia Ballerini Marcello Calisti Oscar Cordón Sergio Damas José Santamaría Automatic Feature Extraction from 3D Range Images of Skulls. 58-69 2008 IWCF https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85303-9_6 conf/iwcf/2008 db/conf/iwcf/iwcf2008.html#BalleriniCCDS08 Lucia Ballerini Marcello Calisti Sergio Damas Oscar Cordón José Santamaría Automatic 3D skull reconstruction using invariant features. 444-449 2008 CSTST https://doi.org/10.1145/1456223.1456314 conf/wstst/2008 db/conf/wstst/cstst2008.html#BalleriniCDCS08 Jorge Aguirregomezcorta Jacopo Aguzzi A. Louise Allcock Michela Angiolillo Andrea Arienti Costanza Armanini Soumo Emmanuel Arnaud Anna Astolfi Lucia Ballerini Leonardo Bocchi Clara Borrelli Simonepietro Canese Martina Capriotti Matias Carandell Damianos Chatzievangelou Mrudul Chellapurath Giovanni Chimienti Matteo Cianchetti Grzegorz Cielniak Marco Controzzi Oscar Cordón Francesco Corucci Corrado Costa Sergio Damas Roberto Danovaro Paolo Dario Lewis Dartnell Enrico Donato Gianpaolo Donzelli Egidio Falotico Omar Faris Madiha Farman Gabriele Ferri 0002 Valerio Funari Dongming Gan F. Gigliotti Michele Giorelli Francesco Giorgio-Serchi Hanita Golshanian Helena Gomes Helmut Hauser Binyamin Hochner Josie Hughes Irfan Hussain Saverio Iacoponi Philip H. Johnson Kai Junge H. Keiser Luigi Landini Cecilia Laschi Guy Levy Jiaqi Liu 0006 Rossana Lovecchio Claudia Manfredi Mariangela Manti Simone Marini Nicola Martini Angela Mazzeo Barbara Mazzolai Matteo Milanesi Kayla Mladinich Kathrin Nowak Silvia Orlandi Giacomo Picardi Athanasios Polydoros Mini Rai Federico Renda Joaquín del Río Isabella Romagnoli José Santamaría Augusto Sarti Lakmal D. Seneviratne Elizabeth SklarElizabeth I. Sklar Mohammad Sheikh Sofla Cesare Stefanini Sergio Stefanni Fabio Taddei Dalla Torre Nicola Vanello Srikishan Vayakkattil Fabrizio Vecchi Peter Weiss Li Wen E. Charles Whitfield Abdurrahman Yilmaz