Franco Angelini is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Pisa. He received a PhD in robotics (cum laude, 2020) from University of Pisa, Italy. From 2016 to 2020, he was a fellow of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy, within the Soft Robotics for Human Cooperation and Rehabilitation (SoftBot) research line. He was a visiting PhD student (September 2018 to March 2019) at the Institute for Perception, Action, and Behaviour (IPAB), University of Edinburgh. His research interests include design and control of soft robotic systems, impedance planning and control, and robotic grasping.