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Massimiliano Zecca
Researcher at Loughborough University
Publications - 147
Citations - 3055
Massimiliano Zecca is an academic researcher from Loughborough University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Humanoid robot & Personal robot. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 142 publications receiving 2721 citations. Previous affiliations of Massimiliano Zecca include National Institute for Health Research & Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies.
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Control of Multifunctional Prosthetic Hands by Processing the Electromyographic Signal
TL;DR: The traditional methods used to control artificial hands by means of EMG signal are presented, in both the clinical and research contexts, and what could be the future developments in the control strategy of these devices are introduced.
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Effective emotional expressions with expression humanoid robot WE-4RII: integration of humanoid robot hand RCH-1
H. Miwa,Koichi Itoh,M. Matsumoto,Massimiliano Zecca,Hideaki Takanobu,S. Rocella,M.C. Carrozza,Paolo Dario,Atsuo Takanishi +8 more
TL;DR: The mechanical features of THE AUTHORS-4RII, the emotion expression humanoid robot developed by integrating the new humanoid robot hands RCH-1 (RoboCasa Hand No.1) into the emotion Expression humanoid robot THEY- 4R, are described.
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The development of a novel prosthetic hand-ongoing research and preliminary results
TL;DR: In this paper, a novel upper limb prosthesis based on a "biomechatronic" design is presented, which is designed to augment the dexterity of traditional prosthetic hands while maintaining approximately the same dimension and weight.
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Brain Response to a Humanoid Robot in Areas Implicated in the Perception of Human Emotional Gestures
Thierry Chaminade,Thierry Chaminade,Massimiliano Zecca,Massimiliano Zecca,Sarah-Jayne Blakemore,Atsuo Takanishi,Chris D. Frith,Chris D. Frith,Silvestro Micera,Silvestro Micera,Paolo Dario,Giacomo Rizzolatti,Giacomo Rizzolatti,Vittorio Gallese,Vittorio Gallese,Maria Alessandra Umiltà,Maria Alessandra Umiltà +16 more
TL;DR: Increased responses to robot compared to human stimuli in the occipital and posterior temporal cortices suggest additional visual processing when perceiving a mechanical anthropomorphic agent.
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Whole body emotion expressions for KOBIAN humanoid robot — preliminary experiments with different Emotional patterns —
Massimiliano Zecca,Yu. Mizoguchi,Keita Endo,Fumiya Iida,Y. Kawabata,Nobutsuna Endo,Kazuko Itoh,Atsuo Takanishi +7 more
TL;DR: A new whole body emotion expressing bipedal humanoid robot, named KOBIAN, which is also capable to express human-like emotions and confirmed the robot can clearly express its emotions, and that very high recognition ratios are possible.