Antonio Bicchi

Antonio Bicchi is an Italian scientist working in robotics and intelligent machines. He is a professor at the University of Pisa and a senior researcher at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa, and an adjunct professor at Arizona State University's School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering. He is editor in chief of the International Journal of Robotics Research, the first scholarly publication on robotics research, and a co-founder and current president of the Italian Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Machines. He has been a Fellow of the IEEE since 2005, received the IEEE Saridis Leadership Award and the University of Pisa's Ordine del Cherubino in 2019, and in 2025 was recognized as a Pioneer of Robotics and Automation by the IEEE.