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Alessandro Scalzo is a leading roboticist whose work centers on humanoid robotics, avatar systems, and multi-robot coordination. He made a major contribution to telepresence with the iCub3 avatar system, enabling fully immersive, remote embodiment of a humanoid robot—a breakthrough that has already garnered 60 citations since its 2024 publication. Scalzo also played a key role in developing the R1 personal humanoid, a service robot designed for safe, cost-effective human collaboration, and has advanced robotic manipulation through detailed analyses of wrist implementations for the iCub platform. His earlier research on distributed coordination among heterogeneous robotic soccer players, including the ART99 system, laid foundational work for multi-agent robotics, with over 90 combined citations. Notably, Scalzo’s design of a parallel kinematic wrist and torso mechanisms for humanoids demonstrates his expertise in creating lightweight, efficient hardware that expands robotic capabilities. His ongoing work on the ergoCub project aims to mitigate workplace musculoskeletal risks through ergonomic human-robot collaboration. With a career spanning from foundational coordination algorithms to cutting-edge avatar systems, Scalzo’s research continues to shape the future of humanoid robotics and human-robot interaction.