La nascita della Roboetica Gianmarco Veruggio

Gianmarco Veruggio received the degree in electronic engineering from Genoa University, Italy, in 1980. From 1980 to 1983 he worked as a designer of fault-tolerant multiprocessor architectures for fail-safe control systems in the Automation Division of Ansaldo. In 1984 he joined the CNR-IAN in Genoa, as a Research Scientist. He has worked on real-time computer graphics for simulation, control techniques, and naval and marine data-collection systems. He founded the CNR-IAN Robotlab (1989-2003) with the aim to develop Experimental Robotics. His research interests encompass robot mission control, real-time human-machine interfaces, control system architectures for tele-robotics and Internet Robotics. His approach is the development of working prototypes to be exploited in a Virtual Lab environment. In 2007 he joined the CNR-IEIIT as a Senior Research Scientist.
He led the first Italian underwater robotics campaign in Antarctica during the 9th Italian expedition in 1993-1994 and the following 13th expedition in 1997-1998 and 17thh expedition in 2001-02.
He led the first Italian underwater robotics campaign in Arctic during 2002. He was the General Chair of the "IARP-IWUR 2005 International Workshop on Underwater Robotics", Genoa, November 2005.
He has been involved in projects of dissemination and education and in 2000 he founded the association "Scuola di Robotica" to promote Robotics among young people. The study of the complex relationship between Robotics and Society led him to coin the term and propose the concept of Roboethics and to dedicate increasing resources to the development of this new applicative field of Ethics. He was the General Chair of the "First International Symposium on Roboethics", Sanremo, January 2004 and the "EURON Roboethics Atelier", Genova, February 2006 and the IEEE ICRA07 Workshop on Roboethics.
He is Corresponding Chair of the IEEE-RAS Technical Committee on Roboethics.