The paper "Design, Implementation and Experiments of Robust Passivity-Based Control for a Rolling-Balancing System" by Martin Crespo, Alejandro Donaire, Fabio Ruggiero, Vincenzo Lippiello, Bruno Siciliano, presented by Alejandro Donaire at the 13th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics in Lisbon (July 2016) has received the Best Paper Award.

Within the same conference, Diana Serra has received the Best PhD Project Award.

Further, the paper "An Optimal Trajectory Planner for a Robotic Batting Task: The Table Tennis Example" by Diana Serra, Aykut Satici, Fabio Ruggiero, Vincenzo Lippiello, Bruno Siciliano, presented by Diana Serra has been a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award.