Giuseppe Averta
Co-Founder at Politecnico di Torino
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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Top SchoolGiuseppe Averta is a robotics researcher-turned-entrepreneur and co-founder with nine years of experience developing human-aware robotic systems and assistive devices. Now an Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Torino and co-founder of Focoos AI, he blends academic rigor—winner of the Georges Giralt PhD Award 2021 for a thesis on modeling human motor skills—with hands-on startup product work. His background spans biomedical engineering to robotics, including a visiting stint at MIT and affiliation with the Italian Institute of Technology, giving him deep expertise in human-inspired design, planning, and control for collaborative and prosthetic robots. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates fine-grained motor-skill models into practical device architectures that improve interaction with healthy and pathological users. He brings a rare combination of top-tier academic accolades and early-stage company leadership, based in Turin.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Visiting Researcher, Visiting Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology100/100, 100/100 at Liceo ScientificoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Università di Pisa
Italian, English
Github Skills (4)
testbed3
robotics3
robot3
pacman2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TdP-2025/TdP-2025
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
JosephAv/JosephAv.github.io
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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