Performance in Robots Interaction via Mental Imagery

Project Information

PRIMI

Grant agreement ID: 101120727

DOI

10.3030/101120727

EC signature date 3 July 2023

Start date 1 November 2023

End date 31 December 2027

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 4 973 683,75

EU contribution

€ 4 973 683,75

Coordinated by

FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA
Italy

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (4)

Specification for integration of neuromorphic sensors

Technical report on transfer neuromorphic perception in REEM-C and other humanoids

Dissemination and Communication Plan (DCP)

This will detail the Dissemination and Communication Plan.updates on month 18 and 36

Report on ELSI

This first report will define the ELSI of PRIMI research and experimentsupdates on 24 and 36

Specification of SpiNNaker2 PCB for edge AI

Technical report on the SpiNNaker2 board for neuromorphic robots

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project website and social media engagement

PRIMI website and social profiles are updated constantly until the end

Data Management Plan (1)

Data management plan (DMP)

DMP for making data & research outputs FAIR

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (14)

Alpha and Beta Corticomotor Phase Dynamics Shape Visuomotor Control on a Single-Trial Basis

Author(s): Alice Tomassini, Francesco Torricelli, Luciano Fadiga, Alessandro D’Ausilio
Published in: The Journal of Neuroscience, Issue 46, 2026, ISSN 0270-6474
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0765-25.2025

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Author(s): Antonioni, Annibale; Raho, Emanuela Maria; Straudi, Sofia; Granieri, Enrico; Koch, Giacomo; Fadiga, Luciano
Published in: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2024, ISSN 0149-7634
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.NEUBIOREV.2024.105830

A Marr-Inspired Framework for Raising “Good” Robots

Author(s): Sarah Hamburg, Alejandro Jimenez-Rodriguez, Aung Htet, Alessandro Di Nuovo
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Issue 17, 2025, ISSN 2379-8920
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TCDS.2025.3540217

Nature Communications

Author(s): Zihao Chen; Zhili Xiao; Mahmoud Akl; Johannes Leugering; Omowuyi Olajide; Adil Malik; Nik Dennler; Chad Harper; Subhankar Bose; Hector A. Gonzalez; Mohamed Samaali; Gengting Liu; Jason Eshraghian; Riccardo Pignari; Gianvito Urgese; Andreas G. Andreou; Sadasivan Shankar; Christian Mayr; Gert Cauwenberghs; Shantanu Chakrabartty
Published in: Nature Communications, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2406.05224

False but phonologically plausible linguistic priors induce cross-linguistic auditory illusions and attenuate electrophysiological markers of surprise

Author(s): Enrico Giraldi; Mirco Frosolone; Andrew W Corcoran; Laura Barca; Alessandro Corsini; Francesco Donnarumma; Alessandro D'Ausilio; Giovanni Pezzulo
Published in: Imaging Neuroscience, 2025, ISSN 2837-6056
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/IMAG.A.1178

Selective visual memory replay with self-evaluation in cognitive robots based on global workspace framework

Author(s): Wenjie Huang, Antonio Chella, Angelo Cangelosi
Published in: Cognitive Systems Research, Issue 92, 2025, ISSN 1389-0417
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.COGSYS.2025.101377

Submovement interpersonal coupling is associated to audio-motor coordination performance

Author(s): Julien Laroche, Alice Tomassini, Luciano Fadiga, Alessandro D’Ausilio
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-024-51629-Z

Entropy

Author(s): Sarah Hamburg,Alejandro Jimenez Rodriguez,Aung Htet,Alessandro Di Nuovo
Published in: Entropy, 2024, ISSN 1099-4300
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/E26070582

Supervised learning of spatial features with STDP and homeostasis using Spiking Neural Networks on SpiNNaker

Author(s): Sergio Davies,Andrew Gait,Andrew Rowley,Alessandro Di Nuovo
Published in: Neurocomputing, Issue Volume 611, 2025, ISSN 1872-8286
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.NEUCOM.2024.128650

Journal of Neurophysiology

Author(s): Botta, Katia; Dolfini, Elisa; Casarotto, Andrea; Koch, Giacomo; D'Ausilio, Alessandro; Fadiga, Luciano
Published in: Journal of Neurophysiology, 2025, ISSN 0022-3077
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1152/JN.00189.2025

Excitatory/inhibitory motor balance reflects individual differences during joint action coordination.

Author(s): Vescovo, Enrico; Cardellicchio, Pasquale; Tomassini, Alice; Fadiga, Luciano; D'Ausilio, Alessandro
Published in: European Journal of Neuroscience, 2023, ISSN 1460-9568
Publisher: Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1111/EJN.16365

The microstructure of intra- and interpersonal coordination

Author(s): Nazzaro, Giovanni; Emanuele, Marco; Laroche, Julien; Esposto, Chiara; Fadiga, Luciano; D'Ausilio, Alessandro; Tomassini, Alice
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2023, ISSN 1471-2954
Publisher: Royal Society Publishing
DOI: 10.1098/RSPB.2023.1576

The Effectiveness of Paired Associative Stimulation on Motor Recovery after Stroke: A Scoping Review

Author(s): Baroni A.; Antonioni A.; Fregna G.; Lamberti N.; Manfredini F.; Koch G.; D'Ausilio A.; Straudi S.
Published in: Neurology International, 2024, ISSN 2035-8377
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/NEUROLINT16030043

Harnessing Uncertainty: Improvisation as a Model for Rapid Behavioral Expansion

Author(s): Julien Laroche, Alessandro D'Ausilio
Published in: Cognitive Science, Issue 50, 2026, ISSN 0364-0213
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/COGS.70191

Conference proceedings (12)

Benchmarking ANN-to-SNN Conversion: Dataset-Dependent Analysis of Accuracy, Latency, and Spike Efficiency

Author(s): Muhammad Aitsam, Samiulhaq Chardiwall, Alejandro Jimenez Rodriguez, Alessandro Di Nuovo
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, 2025, ISBN 978-3-032-07448-5
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-07448-5_24

Efficient Deployment of Spiking Neural Networks on SpiNNaker2 for DVS Gesture Recognition Using Neuromorphic Intermediate Representation

Author(s): Sirine Arfa, Bernhard Vogginger, Chen Liu, Johannes Partzsch, Mark Schöne, Christian Mayr
Published in: 2025 Neuro Inspired Computational Elements (NICE), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2504.06748

Event-Driven Dynamic Attention for Multi-Object Tracking on Neuromorphic Hardware

Author(s): Muhammad Aitsam, Sergio Davies, Alessandro Di Nuovo
Published in: 2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW67362.2025.00500

Disentangling Grasp-Object Representations in the Latent Space: Toward Brain-Like Affordances for Machines

Author(s): Siavash Mortaz Hejri, Hamed Pourfannan, Ruidong Ma, Alejandro Jimenez Rodriguez, Alessandro Di Nuovo
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, 2026
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-07448-5_35

Human-to-Robot Imitation with Symbolic Planning in a Unified Latent Space

Author(s): Ruidong Ma, Wenjie Huang, Zhegong Shangguan, Angelo Cangelosi, Alessandro Di Nuovo
Published in: Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2026
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3776734.3794399

Event-based Neural Decoding for Neuroprosthetic Motor Control

Author(s): Khaleelulla Khan Nazeer, Sirine Arfa, Matthias Jobst, Richard George, Christian Mayr
Published in: 2025 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/BIOCAS67066.2025.00079

Measuring Cognitive Load Through Event Camera Based Human-Pose Estimation

Author(s): Muhammad Aitsam, Dimitri Lacroix, Gaurvi Goyal, Chiara Bartolozzi, Alessandro Di Nuovo
Published in: Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, Human-Friendly Robotics 2024, 2025, ISBN 978-3-031-81688-8
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81688-8_17

Actions Acquisition and Adaptive Generation via Action Primitives and Mental Simulation for Humanoid Robots

Author(s): Wenjie Huang, Ruidong Ma, Alessandro Di Nuovo, Angelo Cangelosi
Published in: ICSR2026 International Conference on Social Robotics, 2026
Publisher: IEEE

Integrating Humanoid Robots in Stroke Rehabilitation: Practitioners' Expectations and Insights

Author(s): Hamed Pourfannan, Rachel Young, Alessandro Di Nuovo
Published in: 2025 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/HRI61500.2025.10973843

Hardware-Aware Fine-Tuning of Spiking Q-Networks on the SpiNNaker2 Neuromorphic Platform

Author(s): Sirine Arfa, Bernhard Vogginger, Christian Mayr
Published in: 2025 International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems (ICONS), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2507.23562

Allostatic Control of Persistent States in Spiking Neural Networks for Perception and Computation

Author(s): Aung Htet, Alejandro Jimenez Rodriguez, Sarah Hamburg, Alessandro Di Nuovo
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, 2026
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-07448-5_33

Can You Handle The Truth? The Effects of Robots Correcting Users’ Misalignment on Trust and Perceived Social Competence

Author(s): Mehdi Hellou, Georgios Angelopoulos, Samuele Vinanzi, Alessandra Rossi, Silvia Rossi, Angelo Cangelosi
Published in: 2025 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/RO-MAN63969.2025.11217739