Giorgio Metta
Scientific Director at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
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Top SchoolGiorgio Metta is a leading humanoid robotics scientist and Scientific Director at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia with over two decades of experience advancing embodied AI. He co-created and coordinated development of the iCub platform—now deployed in 40+ labs worldwide—making it a de facto standard for research in cognitive and developmental robotics. Trained with a MSc cum laude and PhD from the University of Genoa and a postdoc at MIT’s AI Lab, he blends deep academic rigor with large-scale program leadership, including roles as Vice Scientific Director and coordinator of national Industry 4.0 competence centers. A prolific author with 300+ publications, he has also shaped European robotics policy through euRobotics and represented Italy at the G7 AI forum, underscoring his impact at the intersection of science, technology, and policy. Notably, he contributes low-level robotics infrastructure (e.g., YARP timing and OS modules), reflecting hands-on systems expertise beneath his strategic leadership.
20 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Robotics, PhD Robotics at Università degli Studi di Genova
Spanish, English, Italian, German
Github Skills (7)
c-language10
robotics10
yarp10
cprogramming-language10
time-management9
middleware8
ipc8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
robotology/yarp
May 2006 - Aug 2010
YARP - Yet Another Robot Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:84 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Giorgio primarily contributed to the `libYARP_OS` module, focusing on time management and low-level operating system interactions within the YARP framework. The user added a new timer function, modified timer handling, and added a comment on the use of high-resolution timers across different operating systems. The user also refactored code related to string formatting and made changes related to the installation of header files and Visual Studio compatibility.
roboticscommunicationhumanoidsrobotyet-another
giorgiometta/aces-high
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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