Erica Panelli (Piacenza, 1997) is a research fellow at AIRLab within the FROB - Family of ROBots project (PRIN 2022). Her research focuses on the design of modular robots capable of supporting children's cognitive and social development through play, promoting integration in the classroom for both children with and without disabilities.
In 2023, she earned her Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, with a thesis on non-verbal human-robot interaction.