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Giorgio Buttazzo is a pioneering researcher whose work spans robotics, real-time systems, artificial intelligence, and human-machine interaction. With a career spanning over three decades, Buttazzo has made foundational contributions to fields that sit at the intersection of computation, control, and cognition. His early work on artificial tactile perception, exemplified by his 1987 paper on an anthropomorphic robot finger (137 citations), established him as an innovator in robotic sensing systems. This research laid crucial groundwork for understanding how machines can replicate human sensory capabilities. His subsequent development of real-time control methodologies — including elastic feedback control, load-driven scheduling, and execution overrun handling — addressed fundamental challenges in deploying robots and digital controllers in dynamic, unpredictable environments, collectively accumulating nearly 210 citations across related works. Buttazzo has also ventured boldly into philosophical and applied AI territory, questioning whether artificial consciousness is achievable (2001) and, more recently, championing safe architectures for deep learning in safety-critical systems (2019, 52 citations). His contributions to wireless resource reservation protocols and telerehabilitation further demonstrate remarkable breadth. For students entering robotics, real-time computing, or AI safety, Buttazzo's body of work offers both technical rigor and visionary thinking that continues to shape the field.