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Currently · Italy
PhD Student Italian Institute of Technology, Italy 2025 —
DOWON PARK

Soft Robotics. Human-robot coexistence.
Robotics at the boundary of culture & art.

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Research & Projects

What I study
& what I build

Each research thread paired with the projects that ground it.

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Grasping & Manipulation
underactuated systems · unstructured environments
Blah blah blah Design and evaluation of soft end-effectors for robust grasping in unstructured environments. Compliant mechanisms, underactuated systems, integration with human-robot collaborative tasks.
PhD IIT Genova · 2025 —
Soft Robotics Unit GitHub ↗
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Human-Robot Interaction
teleoperation · co-presence · social robotics 

Open thread — collaborations welcome.

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Robotics & Cultural Heritage
fresco reconstruction · artefact digitisation · collective memory
AUTOMATA AI-augmented robotic platforms for low-cost digitisation of archaeological lithics & ceramics. Builds enriched 3D models for the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage.
Ongoing EU Horizon Europe 2024–2029 · IIT Visit ↗
RePAIR Reconstructing the Past — AI and Robotics meet Cultural Heritage. Autonomous physical reconstruction of fragmented frescoes from the UNESCO Pompeii site.
Completed EU Horizon 2020
IIT · Ca' Foscari · Pompeii Visit ↗

Publications

Papers
I've authored

Peer-reviewed contributions and conference papers.

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About

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Matter,
Motion
& Meaning
Soft Robotics Grasping HRI ART Cultural Heritage TELEOPERATION

Do Won Park received the B.Sc. in Bioengineering and the M.Sc. in Robotics and Automation Engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2017 and 2021. His master's thesis investigated grasp planning algorithms for robots equipped with anthropomorphic hands.

Following his studies, he spent three years in industrial automation at a multinational company before returning to research. He subsequently joined the Research Center "E. Piaggio" at the University of Pisa as a Research Fellow. Since 2025, he is a PhD Student at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova, within the Soft Robotics for Human Cooperation and Rehabilitation unit.

His research spans soft robotic grasping, human-robot interaction, and the application of robotics to art and cultural heritage, investigating the capabilities of machines within unconventional domains.

He contributed to RePAIR (EU H2020) and is currently involved in the robotic component of AUTOMATA (EU Horizon Europe, 2024–2029).

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Honorable Mention — ICRA 2024, Yokohama IEEE T-RO King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award, as co-author of a paper on robotic grasping with anthropomorphic hands.
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Open to collaborations, conversations, and unconventional ideas.