Darwin Caldwell#
| Membership Number: | 6734 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ENGINEERING |
| Affiliated section(s): | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.iit.it/people-details/-/people/darwin-caldwell |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6233-9961 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/darwin-caldwell-56030230/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 - present Founding Director, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy
- 2025 - present Vice-President, International Academy of Bionic Sciences
- 2024 - 2026 Vice-President, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)
- 2006 - 2019 Research Director, Italian Institute of Technology
- 1999 - 2007 Professor of Advanced Robotics, University of Salford, Manchester, UK
- 1998 - 1999 Reader in Advanced Robotics, University of Salford, Manchester, UK
- 1997 - 1998 S. Lecturer in Advanced Robotics, University of Salford, Manchester, UK
- 1989 - 1997 Lecturer in Advanced Robotics , (University of Salford, Manchester, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Actuation and actuators
- Humanoid and quadrupedal robotics
- Exoskeletons and Wearable Technologies
- Medical robotics
- Telepresence
- Robotics
- Haptics, AR and VR
- Industrial robotics
Honours and Awards
- 2025. Founding Fellow of the InternatioNAL Society of Bionic Engineering (ISBE)
- 2025 Hon. Professor, University of Manchester, UK
- 2024 Hon. Professor, Soochow University, China
- 2022 Donald Julius Groen Prize, IMechE (Institution Of Mechanical Engineers).
- 2022 Winner Compasso d’Oro 2022 design prize, Italy
- 2022 Elected, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), USA.
- 2022 Elected, Fellow of the International Academy of Artificial Intelligence Sciences (AAIS), Hong Kong
- 2019 Guangdong Province Peacock Project - Shenzhen Highest Level Talent (comparable to ERC) China
- 2019 Hon. Professor, Shenzhen Acad. of Aerospace Tech.
- 2018 Athanasiou ABME Award, USA
- 2016 Official Nominator for the Japan Prize
- 2016 Who's Who
- 2015 Elected, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), UK.
- 2015 CEng (Chartered Engineer) - Engineer Council in the United Kingdom.
- 2012 National Prize for Innovation (CleanTech Category), Italy
- 2011 Hon. Professor, Tianjin University, China
- 2009 Hon. Professor, King’s College, University of London
- 2007 Hon. Professor, University of Sheffield, UK
- 2006 Hon. Professor, University of Bangor, UK
- 1995 BT Industrial Fellowship
- 1990 IEE Younger Members Prize
- 1988 IEEE (UKRI) Best Student Prize
- 1986 Dept. of Education for N.Ireland Fellowship
