Fábio Duarte is a Lecturer in DUSP, Head of Research Initiatives in the Center for Real Estate, and Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Senseable City Lab, where he manages projects including Underworlds, Roboat, City Scanner, as well as the data visualization team.
He has a background in urban planning and a PhD in communication and technology from the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
He was a professor at PUCPR (Curitiba, Brazil), and has been a visiting professor at the Yokohama University and Twente University. Duarte serves as a consultant in urban planning and mobility for the World Bank.
3-RRS and 3-RRUR parallel manipulators as spatial positioning manipulators
Year of Publication:
Venue:
Int. Symp. Robot. Res. (ISRR), 2026
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Wu Yongxin (NUS), Luis Hernandez (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Cecilia Laschi (NUS), Marcelo Ang (NUS), Fabio Duarte (MIT) and Daniela Rus (MIT)
Two-finger soft gripper with a scaled-pad contact interface for dual-mode grasping and surface cleaning
Year of Publication:
Venue:
IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intell. Robots Syst. (IROS), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2026
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Luis Hernandez (SMART), Zhi Cong Wong (SMART), Mong Juin Hwaye (NUS), Wu Yongxin (NUS), Do Van Minh (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Cecilia Laschi (NUS), Marcelo Ang (NUS), Fabio Duarte (MIT) and Daniela Rus (MIT)
Urban motifs associated with population health
Year of Publication:
Venue:
Nature Health
2026
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Winston Yap (MIT), Fabio Duarte (MIT), Yu Zheng (MIT), Kee Moon Jang (MIT), Peng Luo (MIT), Paolo Vineis (SPH, Imperial College London, UK), Carlo Ratti (MIT), Filip Biljecki (NUS)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
Nature Cities
2026
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Ambra Amico (SMART), Fabio Duarte (MIT), Wen-chi Liao (NUS) & Siqi Zheng (MIT)