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Davide Scaramuzza
Italian roboticist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Davide Scaramuzza (born 2 April 1980) is an Italian professor of robotics at the University of Zurich, who specializes in micro air vehicles.
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Education
Scaramuzza earned his master's degree from the University of Perugia in 2004 and a Ph.D. in robotic perception from ETH Zurich in 2008, where he worked with Roland Siegwart. He completed further postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania under roboticists, Vijay Kumar, and Kostas Daniilidis.[6]
Career
In 2012, Scaramuzza became a professor at the University of Zurich, where he founded the "Robotics and Perception Group".[6]
Scaramuzza's research focuses on the autonomous navigation of micro air vehicles (or miniature drones) via onboard cameras and computation, and on drone racing, as well as on event cameras.[6]
In 2015, Scaramuzza cofounded Zurich-Eye,[7] which later became Facebook Zurich,[8][9][10] which uses Zurich Eye's technology in Oculus Quest.[11]
Scaramuzza's research has appeared in The New York Times,[12] BBC News,[13][14][15] la Repubblica,[16] and Neue Zürcher Zeitung,[17] MIT Technology Review,[18] Wired,[19][20] and IEEE Spectrum.[21][22][23]
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Awards
Publications
- Siegwart, Roland; Reza Nourbakhsh, Illah; Scaramuzza, David (2011). Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots. MIT Press. ASIN B00E12AF1C.
References
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