Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto

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Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto is a versatile robotics researcher whose work spans socially assistive robots, unmanned aerial vehicles, and human-robot interaction. Perhaps his most significant contribution lies in the CARESSES project, where he helped pioneer culturally competent artificial intelligence for social robots deployed in elderly care homes — work validated through a rigorous randomised controlled trial (101 citations) and supported by foundational research into knowledge representation and culturally aware planning (69 and 36 citations respectively). These efforts collectively advance the frontier of robots that can adapt their behavior to users' cultural backgrounds, a critical consideration for real-world deployment among diverse aging populations. Recchiuto has also made meaningful contributions to disaster robotics, authoring an influential survey on UAV-based post-disaster assessment (64 citations) and examining the ethical dimensions of rescue robotics. His earlier hardware-focused work, including a bioinspired MEMS tactile sensor for robotic fingers (104 citations), demonstrates a rare breadth from low-level sensing to high-level social cognition. More recently, his knowledge-grounded dialogue management system (31 citations) furthers conversational capabilities in social agents. With over 500 cumulative citations across diverse domains, Recchiuto represents a genuinely interdisciplinary voice shaping the future of human-centered robotics.

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Key Achievements

Top Papers

1. 1
   Development of a bioinspired MEMS based capacitive tactile sensor for a robotic finger

   104 citations · 2010
2. 2
   The CARESSES Randomised Controlled Trial: Exploring the Health-Related Impact of Culturally Competent Artificial Intelligence Embedded Into Socially Assistive Robots and Tested in Older Adult Care Homes

   101 citations · 2021
3. 3
   Knowledge Representation for Culturally Competent Personal Robots: Requirements, Design Principles, Implementation, and Assessment

   69 citations · 2019
4. 4
   Post‐disaster assessment with unmanned aerial vehicles: A survey on practical implementations and research approaches

   64 citations · 2017
5. 5
   Culturally aware Planning and Execution of Robot Actions

   36 citations · 2018
6. 6
   Encoding Guidelines for a Culturally Competent Robot for Elderly Care

   32 citations · 2018
7. 7
   Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Flow Management for Social Robots and Conversational Agents

   31 citations · 2022
8. 8
   Visual feedback with multiple cameras in a UAVs Human–Swarm Interface

   29 citations · 2016
9. 9
   A Feasibility Study of Culture-Aware Cloud Services for Conversational Robots

   29 citations · 2020
10. 10
    Ethical concerns in rescue robotics: a scoping review

    26 citations · 2021

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