Lorenzo Natale
Tenured Senior Researcher at Genoa Ellis Unit
Genoa, Liguria, Italy
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Top SchoolLorenzo Natale is a tenured senior researcher and principal investigator at the Italian Institute of Technology, leading the Humanoid Sensing and Perception lab with over 20 years of expertise in humanoid robotics, vision, tactile sensing and software architectures. He was a core architect of the iCub platform and led its software development, and today drives the YARP middleware used broadly in robotics integration. As coordinator of the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems and Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Robotics and AI’s Humanoid Robotics specialty, he bridges deep technical work with community and editorial leadership. His background includes postdoctoral work at MIT CSAIL and visiting roles at The University of Manchester, reflecting a sustained international footprint in sensorimotor learning and developmental robotics. Notably, he combines hands-on middleware design with research on tactile and auditory perception, making him as comfortable in low-level system engineering as in guiding cross-disciplinary teams.
20 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Robotics, PhD, Robotics at Università degli Studi di Genova
English
Github Skills (83)
cmake-modules10
cmake10
automation10
build-process10
simplify10
middleware10
robotics10
ignition10
ipc10
artificial-intelligence10
build-system10
network10
interprocess-communication10
robot10
robotics-simulation10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lornat75/yarp
Jan 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:39 pushes, 48 branches in 3 years 2 months
yarpyet-anotherroboticsrobot
lornat75/lornat75.github.io
Oct 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:125 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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