For a living, Fausto Panizzolo develops devices to help people walk: better, faster and with a lesser amount of energy.

On the walk along his career path, however, he likes to rely, solely on his own: in fact in his native Italy – as well as elsewhere – "devices" (whether political, social or even merely economic) are often used to obtain prestigious positions in research, like the one he holds now as a post-doc at Professor Conor Walsh's Biodesign Lab at Harvard, a cutting edge think tank where over 50 scientists from all over the world work to create assistive technology (from heart valves to mechanic gloves) using so-called soft robotics, in other words materials that adapt to the human body rather than encasing it in rigid plastic or metal structures.

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Fonte: Bostoniano