Papers
26
Total Citations
392
H-Index
12
About
Edoardo Datteri is an Italian philosopher of science and robotics researcher whose work sits at the compelling intersection of robotics, cognitive science, and the philosophy of biology. With a career spanning over two decades, he has made influential contributions to the methodology of biorobotics — the use of robotic models to investigate biological and sensorimotor mechanisms. His seminal 2007 paper on biorobotic experiments (43 citations) critically examined the methodological standards required for robot-based biological discovery, while his ongoing work on "interactive biorobotics" — where robots stimulate rather than merely simulate living systems — has opened an entirely new conceptual framework in the field, attracting nearly 50 citations across two 2020 publications. Datteri has also shaped thinking around robot ethics and human-robot interaction, with his 2011 reflection on responsibility in medical robotics (50 citations) remaining his most widely cited work. Beyond research methodology and ethics, he has explored educational robotics as a tool for teaching scientific reasoning (2013). His theoretical interrogations — asking whether biorobotics qualifies as science and tracing its roots to cybernetic methodology — demonstrate a rare and rigorous philosophical depth. With over 280 combined citations, Datteri's scholarship continues to challenge and enrich how researchers understand robotic science itself.
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- 2Biorobotic Experiments for the Discovery of Biological Mechanisms43 citations · 2007
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- 4The Logic of Interactive Biorobotics27 citations · 2020
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- 6Interactive biorobotics24 citations · 2020
- 7Learning to explain: the role of educational robots in science education24 citations · 2013
- 8Robotic Simulations, Simulations of Robots18 citations · 2019
- 9Adaptable semi-autonomy in personal robots18 citations · 2002
- 10Is biorobotics science? Some theoretical reflections16 citations · 2022