Spoke 2 addresses the development of innovative solutions aimed at the field of healthcare by leveraging expertise in artificial intelligence and robotics.
The goal of Spoke 2 is to create the technological conditions for a shared, connected and personalized care system, by addressing four main challenges: providing home care through the creation of intelligent and interactive environments, fostering the personalization of medical treatments through digital twins, supporting the creation of rehabilitation ecosystems and improving future image-based diagnostics.
The development of innovative devices and technologies and the commercialization of the solutions developed by Spoke 2 will bring added value to hospitals and national health services, benefiting Ligurian and Italian citizens.
The Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) is a private foundation established in 2003with the aim of stimulating the country’s technological development and high-level technological education in Italy, thereby fostering the development of the national production system.
IIT operates in four research domains: Robotics, Nanomaterials, Life Sciences Technologies and Computational Sciences, with a multidisciplinary approach aimed at attracting talent from all over the world and using AI in all research and its application.
Lorenzo De Michieli is Director of Technology Transfer at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Principal Investigator of the Rehab Technologies Lab of IIT, an Innovation Lab co-funded by IIT and INAIL to develop new prostheses, exoskeletons and rehabilitation devices with high market potential in the healthcare sector.