| Theme Title | Theme Number | Curriculum | Code | Host Institution | Tutors |
| AI methods for Robots in Unstructured Environments | 1 | Hostile and unstructured environments | C1-T1 | Italian Inst. of Technology | L. Natale – M. Pontil |
| Detection and tracking of obstacles for autonomous marine vehicles | 2 | Hostile and unstructured environments | C1-T2 | Univ. Genova | E. Simetti – F. Odone |
| Distributed tactile sensing for elephant-trunk inspired soft manipulators | 3 | Hostile and unstructured environments | C1-T3 | Italian Inst. of Technology | L. Beccai |
| Social perception in unstructured environments | 4 | Hostile and unstructured environments | C1-T4 | Univ. Milano Bicocca | D. Ognibene – D. G. Sorrenti – E. Datteri |
| Soft growing and adaptable robots for exploration of extreme environments | 5 | Hostile and unstructured environments | C1-T5 | Italian Inst. of Technology | B. Mazzolai |
| Traversability for Mobile Robots in Hostile and Unstructured Environments | 6 | Hostile and unstructured environments | C1-T6 | Univ. Catania | G. Muscato |
| Soft Robotics for Human Cooperation and Rehabilitation (II) | 7 | Hostile and unstructured environments | C1-T7 | Italian Inst. of Technology | A. Bicchi – G. Grioli – M. Catalano |
| Mechatronic Technologies for the Smart Factory | 1 | Industry 4.0 | C2-T1 | Intellimech & Univ. Pisa | A. Bicchi – M. Catalano – S. Ierace |
| Mechatronic Technologies for Intelligent Machines | 2 | Industry 4.0 | C2-T2 | Intellimech & Univ. Pisa | A. Bicchi – M. Catalano – S. Ierace |
| Advanced Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration | 3 | Industry 4.0 | C2-T3 | Italian Institute of Technology & Univ. Pisa | A. Ajoudani – A. Bicchi |
| Swarms of Heterogeneous Soft Robots | 4 | Industry 4.0 | C2-T4 | National Research Council – ISTC | V. Trianni – A. Orlandini |
| Planning and coordination of collaborative robot teams for manufacturing applications | 5 | Industry 4.0 | C2-T5 | National Research Council – STIIMA | N. Pedrocchi |
| Intelligent Machines for small batch production | 6 | Industry 4.0 | C2-T6 | National Research Council – STIIMA | G. Bianchi – M. Leonesio |
| New protocols and control algorithms for closer human-robot cooperation | 7 | Industry 4.0 | C2-T7 | Polytechnic University of Marche | M. Palpacelli – M. Callegari |
| Cooperative and collaborative control for mobile manipulators | 8 | Industry 4.0 | C2-T8 | Univ. Basilicata | F. Pierri – F. Caccavale |
| Learning and Control Methods for Autonomous Robots in Complex Industrial Scenarios | 9 | Industry 4.0 | C2-T9 | Univ. of Bologna | G. Palli – G. Notarstefano – L. Marconi – C. Melchiorri – M. Carricato – R. Vertechy |
| Development of CAE-based tools for electronic cams optimization | 10 | Industry 4.0 | C2-T10 | Univ. Genova | G. Berselli |
| Multimodal Sensing for Robot Self-aware Control | 11 | Industry 4.0 | C2-T11 | Univ. Genova | G. Cannata |
| Human-Robot Interaction for Industry 4.0 and Service Robotics | 12 | Industry 4.0 | C2-T12 | Univ. Naples | S. Rossi – L. Villani |
| Optimization of collaborative robotic assembly tasks | 13 | Industry 4.0 | C2-T13 | Univ. Padova | G. Rosati – E. Menegatti |
| Planning and control strategies for robotic manipulators embedding elastic elements for efficient manipulation | 14 | Industry 4.0 | C2-T14 | Univ. Pisa | P. Salaris – M. Garabini – F. Angelini |
| Robotic trajectory planning for industrial sustainability | 15 | Industry 4.0 | C2-T15 | Univ. Udine | A. Gasparetto – A. Dovier |
| Robotic based underwater shallow water infrastructure inspection | 1 | Inspection and Maintenance of Infrastructures | C3-T1 | Univ. Genova | G. Indiveri |
| Autonomous quadrupeds to improve public infrastructures resilience | 2 | Inspection and Maintenance of Infrastructures | C3-T2 | Univ. Genova | A. Sgorbissa – C. Recchiuto |
| Development and experimentation of a Reconfigurable Underwater Vehicle for Inspection, Free-floating Intervention and Survey Tasks | 3 | Inspection and Maintenance of Infrastructures | C3-T3 | Univ. Firenze | B. Allotta – A. Ridolfi |
| Human-centric, interactive, personal robotics | 4 | Inspection and Maintenance of Infrastructures | C3-T4 | Univ. Pisa | A. Bicchi – G. Grioli – M. Catalano |
| Deep learning models for quality control and anomaly detection in Industry 4.0 | 5 | Inspection and Maintenance of Infrastructures | C3-T5 | CNR STIIMA | V. Renò |
| Virtual and Physical Prototyping of Sensorized Compliant Grippers | 1 | Agrifood | C4-T1 | Univ. Genova | G. Berselli – M. Valle |
| Fresh food handling | 2 | Agrifood | C4-T2 | Univ. Campania Luigi Vanvitelli | S. Pirozzi |
| Automation of poultry and pig farms always having animal welfare as the goal | 3 | Agrifood | C4-T3 | Univ. Catania | R. Sinatra |
| Design of poultry and pig farms always having animal welfare as the goal | 4 | Agrifood | C4-T4 | Univ. Catania | A. Cammarata |
| Autonomous Robotics for mountain agriculture | 5 | Agrifood | C4-T5 | Univ. Trento | D. Fontanelli – M. Roveri – L. Palopoli |
| 3D bioprinting of living materials | 1 | Healthcare and Wellness of Persons | C5-T1 | Univ. Genova | L. Pastorino – D. Di Lisa |
| Study and development of a highly ergonomic wearable device for movement and posture assessment in rehabilitation, work, and sports | 2 | Healthcare and Wellness of Persons | C5-T2 | SWHARD – Univ. Genova | M. Casadio-C. Pierella |
| Virtual reality and robotic integration to assess human vestibular performance | 3 | Healthcare and Wellness of Persons | C5-T3 | MOVENDO – Univ. Genova | M. Casadio-V. Squeri |
| Advanced computer-vision techniques in body machine interfaces for rehabilitation and assistance of people with neurological diseases | 4 | Healthcare and Wellness of Persons | C5-T4 | MOVENDO – Univ. Genova | M. Casadio-F. Odone-T. Falchi Delitala |
| Diversity-Aware Social Robots for Education and Social Assistance | 5 | Healthcare and Wellness of Persons | C5-T5 | Scuola di Robotica – Univ. Genova | C. Recchiuto – M. Casadio – A. Sgorbissa – E. Micheli |
| Legal issues of Robotics and Intelligent machine in medicine and healthcare | 6 | Healthcare and Wellness of Persons | C5-T6 | Univ. Genova | V. Di Gregorio |
| Design and Operation Methodologies for Upper-Limb Exoskeletons | 7 | Healthcare and Wellness of Persons | C5-T7 | Univ. Calabria | G. Carbone – D. Mundo |
| Social robot assistant for intelligent health care | 8 | Healthcare and Wellness of Persons | C5-T8 | Univ. Palermo | A. Chella – V. Seidita – R. Sorbello – A. Fagiolini |
| Robot assisted rehabilitation for older adults after strokes or traumatic events | 9 | Healthcare and Wellness of Persons | C5-T9 | Univ. Trento | L. Palopoli – M. Roveri – D. Fontanelli |
| Robotics enhanced by IoT and AI for healthcare 4.0 | 10 | Healthcare and Wellness of Persons | C5-T10 | Univ. Campus Bio-Medico Roma | L. Zollo – N. L. Tagliamonte |
| Magnetic multi-robot system control | 11 | Healthcare and Wellness of Persons | C5-T11 | Scuola Sup. S. Anna Pisa | A. Menciassi |
| Intelligent Microscale Robots | 12 | Healthcare and Wellness of Persons | C5-T12 | Scuola Sup. S. Anna Pisa | S. Palagi |
| Sensing for Medical Robotics | 13 | Healthcare and Wellness of Persons | C5-T13 | Scuola Sup. S. Anna Pisa | A. Menciassi – C. M. Oddo |
| Robotics for healthcare | 14 | Healthcare and Wellness of Persons | C5-T14 | Politecnico Torino | G. Quaglia – C. Visconte |
| Bio-inspired friction-based self-locomoting soft microbot | 15 | Healthcare and Wellness of Persons | C5-T15 | Univ. Salento | M. Scaraggi – M. De Vittorio – S. Gorb |
| Sensorimotor interfaces and control for human-robot collaboration | 16 | Healthcare and Wellness of Persons | C5-T16 | Univ. Siena | D. Prattichizzo |
| Sensorimotor interfaces and control for human-robot augmentation | 17 | Healthcare and Wellness of Persons | C5-T17 | Univ. Siena | D. Prattichizzo |
| Human-robot coexistence and interaction in robot-assisted medical procedures | 18 | Healthcare and Wellness of Persons | C5-T18 | Univ. Roma La Sapienza | A. De Luca – M. Vendittelli |
| Artificial Intelligence methods and Robotic Assistance in Surgical Procedures | 19 | Healthcare and Wellness of Persons | C5-T19 | Univ. Modena e Reggio Emilia | F. Ferraguti |
| Motion and action prediction for human-robot collaboration facilitated by body signals and context | 20 | Healthcare and Wellness of Persons | C5-T20 | Univ. Bolzano | A. Peer – R. Vidoni |
| Innovative solutions for electric vehicles and connected cooperative and automated mobility | 1 | Mobility and Autonomous Vehicles | C6-T1 | Politecnico di Bari | M. P. Fanti |
| Perception and control in mobile intelligent robots | 2 | Mobility and Autonomous Vehicles | C6-T2 | Univ Milano-Bicocca | D. G. Sorrenti – D. Ognibene – E. Datteri |
| Control and Coordination of Mobile Etherogeneous Robots for Surveillance Operations | 3 | Mobility and Autonomous Vehicles | C6-T3 | LEONARDO SpA – Univ. Genova | M. Baglietto – G. Cannata – G. Indiveri – A. Sgorbissa |
