Idiap has three new openings: Senior Researcher, Postdoc and Phd position

To strengthen and diversify its growth, the Idiap Research Institute invites applications for a permanent Senior Researcher position in the areas of ...

Idiap has a new opening for 3 PhD positions in perception, robot skill learning and HRI

The Perception and Activity Understanding group (Jean-Marc Odobez, http://www.idiap.ch/~odobez/) and the Robot Learning and Interaction group (Sylvain Calinon, ...

Euronews video on DexROV project trials: "How will the new intelligent breed of ROVs benefit us?"

The DexROV team has just completed a 2 weeks long campaign of integration and tests in the DexROV project, with a satellite link established between Brussels ...

Best Paper Award for the Dr Sylvain Calinon

Dr Sylvain Calinon received the 2017 Best Paper Award of the Intelligent Service Robotics (ISR) journal for his article "A Tutorial on Task-Parameterized ...

Idiap has a new opening for a Postdoc position in robot learning applied to bimanual underwater teleoperation

The Robot Learning & Interaction Group has an open Postdoc position within the DexROV European project, in collaboration with 6 other partners in Belgium, ...

Idiap's Baxter robot and the research behind it featured in "Le Nouvelliste"

Thanks to Idiap researchers, the Baxter robot is able to learn from its mistakes.

DexROV holds first official review with European Commission

Nineteen months after the undersea-operations project was launched, DexROV has successfully completed its first funding review as part of the European ...

Robot graffiti artist is the Banksy of the mechanical world

Best not left alone on the back of a bus

Canal9 visits the Baxter robot at Idiap

Dr. Sylvain Calinon, head of Idiap’s Robot Learning & Interaction group, receives Romain Boisset, reporter for the Canap9 TV channel. They demonstrate how ...

Idiap's DexROV project featured in RTS's CQFD radio show today

DexROV is a robot of a special kind. This underwater robot is destined to take the place of human divers for tasks in very deep water (up to 1’300 meters under ...