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Giorgio Metta

Giorgio Metta

Scientific Director (CEO)
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
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Giorgio Metta is the scientific director of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). From 2001 to 2002, he was a postdoctoral associate at the AI-Lab (now CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He worked at the University of Genoa and was Professor of Cognitive Robotics at the University of Plymouth (UK) from 2012 to 2019. From 2020 he Is Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester, UK. He is member of the Board of Gefran S.p.A. and the Board of Industrie De Nora S.p.A. (both listed in the Italian Stock Market). He advises HAT Sgr and the Quadrivio Group, two Italian/European Private Equity funds. Giorgio Metta's research activities are in the field of bioinspired systems and humanoid robotics, with a focus on the design of machines that can learn from experience; he has authored or co-authored more than 300 scientific publications .

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    Panel 6 - Physical AI: Humanoids, Robot Fleets & Europe's Hardware Gap

    Tuesday 22 September, 14:00 – 14:40Panel Stage

    Physical AI is 2026's breakout story: humanoids leaving the lab, LLM-driven robot fleets, and a hardware race Europe is losing to China. Can the EU build, not just regulate?

    With Limor Schweitzer, Carl Strathearn

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