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Carlo Bagnato is a researcher whose work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, robotics, and human sensorimotor control, with particular focus on pain mechanisms, haptic stimulation, and social motor interaction. His most recognized contribution, "Artificial Nociception and Motor Responses to Pain, for Humans and Robots" (2015, 10 citations), explores how understanding biological pain processing can inspire the design of artificial nociceptive systems in robotics — a novel bridge between neuroscience and intelligent machine design. Complementing this, his development of fMRI-compatible robotic stimulators (2016, 8 citations) has provided the research community with practical tools to investigate the human somatosensory system non-invasively, enabling synchronized mechanical skin stimulation during neuroimaging. Bagnato has also made meaningful contributions to social motor neuroscience, demonstrating in his work on dyadic physical interaction (2016, 8 citations) that visual social cues — such as facing a partner — measurably influence force exchange between individuals. His versatile haptic stimulator further extends this research program by enabling controlled investigation of how pain modulates motor learning. Collectively, Bagnato's work advances our understanding of human sensorimotor processing while opening innovative pathways for human-robot interaction research.