Great success for PoliTO at Expo 2025 Osaka

The exhibition started from the drone revolution and what it will mean for everyday life in the near future, with applications in both passenger and cargo transport. The second chapter was then dedicated to technologies related to flight sustainability, from solar-powered aircrafts capable of transoceanic crossings to latest-generation batteries and materials. The third project showcased in the exhibition focused on suborbital flight: the real frontier for the transport of goods and people over long distances in the future. Visitors were then taken even higher, with orbital flight that will make space more accessible for research, applications on Earth and, why not, even tourism in the future. The exhibition then closed with satellites, and particularly CubeSats, recalling PoliTO tradition in this domain, which has enabled it to send two of them into orbit in recent years.

The scientific content provided by twenty research teams and five student teams from PoliTO was organized into an exhibition that began with the display of actual prototypes of 3D-printed projects and then developed into a multimedia story on a large LED wall screen. The content could then be explored in depth thanks to dedicated web pages featuring the materials and features of all the projects shown.

The audience particularly appreciated the opportunity to take home a personalized souvenir, with a stamp commemorating PoliTO presence at Expo, created especially for the occasion.

Thanks to the special layout designed by the Department of Architecture and Design (DAD), the venue could also be used to host talks and presentations. In addition to the institutional inauguration on Thursday, October 2, attended by institutional representatives of the Piedmont delegation at Expo, from the President Alberto Cirio to the Mayor of Turin Stefano Lo Russo, as well as the Commissioner for Expo 2025 Osaka Mario Vattani, two other events were organized, well attended by a qualified audience of professors and Japanese researchers from universities with which PoliTO has strong and long-standing connections.

The first, curated by Giuseppe Quaglia, Director of the Japan Hub, traced various areas of collaboration between Politecnico and some of Japan's leading universities. The keynote speeches covered topics ranging from robotics to medical technology applications for health, materials, and energy.

Politecnico’s exhibition at Expo concluded with a final talk, curated by Giorgio Guglieri and Giuseppe Scellato, scientific coordinators of two Spokes dedicated to air and space mobility within the PNRR MOST and NODES projects, respectively. In this case, the speakers presented the advances of the two projects and PoliTO activities in these sectors to an attentive audience of Japanese stakeholders.