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Dr. Emanuele Aucone

ETH Zurich
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Emanuele Aucone, born in Italy in 1995, is a Ph.D. student at ETH Zurich, with the Environmental Robotics Laboratory, since July 2020. His research investigates the development of drones capable of physically interacting with natural environments for biodiversity monitoring within the forest ecosystem. His main work on the first drone collecting animal DNA from trees has been published on the cover of Science Robotics (January 2023), featured in reportages from the Swiss National Television, BBC4Tech, and several online magazines, and elected as Top 100 Entries in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest. In 2022 Emanuele has filmed a short movie about his research on robots and DNA, which has been awarded as Best Movie in the category "Scientists-as-Filmmakers" at the 5th Global Science Film Festival (2023). In 2023, Emanuele has been elected as one of the 111 young professionals with the greatest potential in Italy (Winner of Nova 111 List Italy) and in 2024 included to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list. (Science category).


He received his B.Sc. Degree in Electronics Engineering for Automation and Telecommunication (cum laude), from University of Sannio in 2017, and his M.Sc. Degree in Robotics and Automation Engineering (cum laude), from University of Pisa in 2020. During his studies and external experiences he worked on several projects spanning different robotics disciplines, such as control, state estimation, navigation, manipulation, machine learning, and computer vision. From July 2018 to September 2018 he was a summer intern at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, implementing the control system of a Burn-in Thermal Chamber built to test the new silicon modules of the CERN CMS Outer Tracker. From November 2019 to March 2020 he was a Visiting Student Researcher at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, working on the development of several control strategies for the locomotion of DuAxel, a modular four-wheeled rover, over rough terrain such as Lunar lava tubes and Martian RSL.

Media related to the article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46967-5
https://www.wsl.ch/en/news/drones-find-their-way-through-obstacles-to-monitor-biodiversity-in-remote-areas/

https://www.rjb.ch/rjb/Actualite/Suisse/Un-drone-capable-de-se-faufiler-dans-le-feuillage.html

https://innovation.zuerich/news/aktuelles/#drohne-fliegt-auch-in-dichtem-wald

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