Idiap of Martigny develops a new imaging system for research

The Idiap Research Institute develops a new imaging system for research. The precision instrument has been built together with the air base of Sion and could ...

Idiap has a new opening for a PhD positions in multimodal perception for robotics and gesture learning

The Perception and Activity Understanding group (Jean-Marc Odobez, http://www.idiap.ch/~odobez/) seeks one PhD candidate for a Swiss NSF funded project aiming ...

3 promotions to Senior Researcher at Idiap

Following a very strict evaluation process – comprising the nomination by Idiap's management and a formal approval by the Scientific College - , Idiap is ...

On February 2nd, 2018, Ajay Tanwani successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled 'Generative Models for Learning Robot Manipulation Skills from Humans'

The thesis presents generative mixture models for learning robot manipulation skills from a few human demonstrations, and providing assistance to a human ...

The TACT-HAND project featured in the annual magazine Micro&Nano

The TACT-HAND project in which Idiap participates was featured in the annual magazine Micro&Nano (p.42-43) from Micronarc, the Western Switzerland ...

Vision and machine learning for robot manipulation

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

Like humans, robots can learn to walk

Following a comparable path, robots could learn to move and walk as human being do. The goal of the MEMMO project is to develop a unified approach to motion ...

"Deep neural networks remain for the most part black boxes"

Artificial deep neural networks are a powerful tool, able to extract information from large datasets and, using this acquired knowledge, make accurate ...

The best presentation award of the Conference on Robot Learning goes to Noémie Jaquier, PhD student at Idiap

The Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) awarded the best presentation award to Noémie Jaquier. In collaboration with the Bosch Center for Artificial ...