RAISE is an innovation ecosystem, one of the eleven national projects selected by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research (MIUR) under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR). The partners involved in this project are the National Research Council (Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche), the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), and the University of Genoa, across its various departments, with the University serving as the official proponent (with the coordination and support of the Liguria Region). RAISE stands for “Robotics and AI for Socio-economic Empowerment,” and the project’s main goal is to promote robotics and intelligent machines in urban contexts and for the purpose of inclusion.

Lorenza Saettone and Michela Bogliolo from the School of Robotics, who are also pursuing their doctorates at the Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics, and Systems Engineering (DIBRIS), have incorporated our humanoid robotics project into their academic and research path, as previously mentioned in other news. Therefore, the DIBRIS’s intention to include Automatism in the Talk as an update on what the Department of Engineering and Robotics has been working on in recent months and what we aim to accomplish in the future was immediate. Automatism aims to explore the use of humanoid robots in education, with a particular focus on educational inclusion, which is the goal of the Ligurian ecosystem for pro-social innovation.