Antonio Bicchi

Antonio Bicchi
Antonio Bicchi on the IIT SkyBridge, Nov. 2018
BornJune 1, 1959
Pontremoli, Italy
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Pisa
University of Bologna
AwardsIEEE Fellow (2005)

IEEE RAS Saridis Leadership Award (2018)

University of Pisa "Ordine del Cherubino” (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsRobotics
Haptics
Automatic Control
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Pisa
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Arizona State University

Antonio Bicchi is an Italian scientist interested in robotics and intelligent machines. He is professor at the University of Pisa and senior researcher at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa. He is an adjunct professor at the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering of Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, US.

He is the editor in chief of The International Journal of Robotics Research, the first scholarly publication on robotics research. He is a co-founder and current president of the Italian Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Machines.

He is a Fellow of IEEE since 2005, and received the IEEE Saridis Leadership Award and the “Ordine del Cherubino” from University of Pisa in 2019. In 2025, he was recognized as a Pioneer of Robotics and Automation by IEEE .