Stefano Dafarra obtained his M.S. degree on Automation and Control Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2016. He visited the robotics lab at the Institute of Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola, Florida in 2019. He received his Ph.D on Advanced and Humanoid robotics from the University of Genoa working at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in 2020. He was the technical lead of the iCub Team during the ANA Avatar XPrize international competition. He is currently a Researcher. His research interests include teleoperation, optimization, optimal control, machine learning, foundation models, and humanoid locomotion.
Research center
CRIS@SanQuirico
About
All Publications
2024
Hauser K., Watson E.N., Bae J., Bankston J., Behnke S., Borgia B., Catalano M.G., Dafarra S., van Erp J. B. F., Ferris T., Fishel J., Hoffman G., Ivaldi S., Kanehiro F., Kheddar A., Lannuzel G., Morie J.F., Naughton P., NGuyen S., Oh P., Padir T., Pippine J., Park J., Vaz J., Pucci D., Whitney P., Wu P., Locke D.
Analysis and Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition
International Journal of Social Robotics
2024
Dafarra S., Pattacini U., Romualdi G., Rapetti L., Grieco R., Darvish K., Milani G., Valli E., Sorrentino I., Viceconte P.M., Scalzo A., Traversaro S., Sartore C., Elobaid M., Guedelha N., Herron C., Leonessa A., Draicchio F., Metta G., Maggiali M., Pucci D.
iCub3 avatar system: Enabling remote fully immersive embodiment of humanoid robots
Science Robotics, vol. 9, (no. 86)
2024
Romualdi G., Viceconte P. M., Moretti L., Sorrentino I., Dafarra S., Traversaro S., Pucci D.
Online DNN-driven Nonlinear MPC for Stylistic Humanoid Robot Walking with Step Adjustment
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
Conference Paper
Conference
2024
Cardenas-Perez C., Romualdi G., Elobaid M., Dafarra S., L'Erario G., Traversaro S., Morerio P., Bue A.D., Pucci D.
XBG: End-to-End Imitation Learning for Autonomous Behaviour in Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Article
Journal
2023
Sartore C., Rapetti L., Bergonti F., Dafarra S., Traversaro S., Pucci D.
Codesign of Humanoid Robots for Ergonomic Collaboration with Multiple Humans via Genetic Algorithms and Nonlinear Optimization
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
Awards and Achievements
2022
Pucci D., Maggiali M., Dafarra S., Pattacini U., Traversaro S., Milani G., Rapetti L., Romualdi G., Sorrentino I., Sartore C., Valli E., Viceconte P., Grieco R., Elobaid M., Larosa F., Fiorio L., Barbieri E., Gandini D., Salvi M., Scalzo A., Tomè D., Tricerri L., Girardi S., Vassallo G.
ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finalist
Colleagues of Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence