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A. Franchi, he was a visiting scholar at the University of California at Santa Barbara. From 2010 to 2012 he was a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (MPI-KYB) in Tübingen, Germany. From 2012 to 2013 he was a senior research scientist and the project leader of the autonomous robotics and human-machine systems group at the MPI-KYB, electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in system engineering from the Sapienza University of Rome, 2005.