Compelling opportunities of innovation are arising from the tight collaboration of humans with the external intelligent environment that increasingly characterizes modern society.

This enriched and reactive environment is embodied in very different forms, such as vehicles, appliances, handsets, virtual environments, robots, etc. It exhibits capabilities well beyond human limits, like for example the ones related to accessing and managing vast amounts of information.

To bring these capabilities to fruition, and improve the quality of our life and our work, they must be ultimately driven by human will in the most natural and intuitive way, leaving the machine with the appropriate degree of autonomy.

A natural interaction with the external environment requires an improvement of the traditional human-machine interface based on the sense of sight and hearing. 

On one side, the realism of the information conveyed to the senses must increase and, on the other, new communication modes must be invented that build on the human ability to transmit and receive physical cues like gestures, force and tactile stimuli.

PERCRO’s mission is to conceive and develop Advanced Interaction Concepts and Technologies for improving the communication between the humans and the reactive environment, with special attention to Virtual Environments and Tele-Robotic Systems.