Summary
Eugenio Chisari is a research engineer based in Zurich specializing in robotics foundation models, with seven years of experience bridging robot learning research and real-world systems. Currently at Flexion Robotics, he focuses on diffusion models for dexterous manipulation, building on a PhD in Robot Learning and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich. His background includes hands-on deployment and testing for ANYmal legged robots, autonomous racecar control for Formula Student, and a product-focused internship at Google, reflecting a blend of academic rigor and product sensibility. As a teaching assistant in control systems and an active maintainer of a personal robotics portfolio, he brings clear pedagogy and reproducible research practices to complex control and learning problems. Notably, his work emphasizes bringing generative model advances into tactile and manipulation tasks—an area few practitioners couple with strong deployment experience.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robot Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robot Learning at The University of Freiburg
Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering, focus on Robotics, Systems and Control, Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering, focus on Robotics, Systems and Control at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Italian, English, German