Overview
Marcello Chiurazzi is the CEO of AuraSensae, based in Florence. He has held that role since May 2024, having previously been the company's chief technology officer from October 2019.
His work at AuraSensae ran alongside a series of positions at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, where he was a research assistant from February 2017 to May 2021, a postdoctoral researcher from May 2021 to March 2022, and an assistant professor from March 2022 until May 2024. Before that he was an associate researcher at Ceit-IK4 during 2016, and spent part of 2015 at the TUM Graduate School.
He completed a doctorate in biorobotics at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna between 2018 and 2022. He holds a laurea specialistica in bioengineering and biomedical engineering from Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, obtained between 2013 and 2015, and a bachelor of engineering in biomedical engineering from Università Federico II di Napoli, completed between 2009 and 2013.
Career history
In the news
- Un robot intelligente deve anche saper percepire le persone che ha intorno. È una delle sfide che affrontiamo ogni giorno in AuraSensae: dare ai robot un nuovo senso, per rendere la collaborazione con le persone più naturale, sicura e adattiva. Perché portare l’intelligenza artificiale nel mondo fisico significa anche dare alle macchine la capacità di percepirlo e interagirvi. Ne parlerò il 22 ottobre al Designtech AI Adoption Summit, nel panel:🎙️ “Physical AI: dalla robotica intelligente alle applicazioni concrete”Un’occasione
- 14/10/2026: Two countries. Two exhibitions. Three robots. One technology: Hexopus. 🚀 AuraSensae is showing up in two places at once: UK: At Machine Builder Live in the UK, integrated on an ABB GoFa in collaboration with TLA Distribution Ltd. IT: At BI-MU in Milan, integrated for the FIRST TIME on two ABB PoWa robots for the very first time in collaboration with ABB Robotics. For us, this is more than a double exhibition appearance. It brings a core principle behind Hexopus to life: easy to integrate, simple to use. Different
- Physical AI is taking robots beyond preprogrammed paths. When motion is no longer scripted, sensing people before contact becomes even more critical. That’s where Hexopus comes in. 🐙 See it live with TLA Distribution Ltd and AuraSensae. 📍 Machine Building Live · Stand 186 · 14 October
- Excited to join you! 🚀 Seeing Hexopus integrated into your ABB robot is exactly what we love: bringing technology from the lab into real applications.For us at AuraSensae, better human–robot collaboration starts with robots sensing the people around them. Come and see it in action at Stand 186! 🤖🙌
- Robots are getting smarter. We’re giving them a new sense. ⚡ At AuraSensae, we’re hiring an Electronics Engineer to build the next generation of Hexopus, our technology that lets robots detect people before contact. We’re a young deep tech team turning ambitious ideas into real hardware. Your territory? Circuit design, PCB layout, assembly, debugging and industrialisation. Industrial experience is essential; safety-device development and certification experience is a big plus. 📩 Tell me what you’ve built. Let’s build what’s
- Excited to share that AuraSensae has been selected by Regione Toscana to take part in Toscana Tech on the Road at INNOVIT - Italian Innovation and Culture Hub. Starting tomorrow, we’ll be showcasing our technology in San Francisco with a live demo of the AuraSensae system integrated directly on a robotic platform bringing our vision for safer and more flexible human-robot collaboration into a real, working environment. A special thank you to Eagle Vision and Automation for supporting us and making one of their robotic
- Proud to see how strongly the market reacted to AuraSensae technology at Automate Show. What impressed me most was not only the interest in a new safety solution, but the recognition of a different approach: safety should adapt to people and enable collaboration, rather than limiting it. Robots must become increasingly aware of the human presence around them, responding dynamically and safely without sacrificing productivity or flexibility. This is the vision we are building at AuraSensae, and the conversations we had in Chicago
- At Automate Show, together with Andrea and ABB Robotics, we had the opportunity to discuss a topic that I believe will be central for the future of robotics. Human-robot collaboration cannot scale only through smarter robots. It will scale when robots become able to react to human presence in real time, safely and naturally. This is why, at AuraSensae, we often speak about reflex rather than perception. Perception is about understanding the environment. Reflex is about reacting immediately, with low computational effort, exactly
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