Robots and humans collaborate to play music together

Collaborative robots are the perfect tool to link art and science. Thanks to his visit at Idiap, a researcher from Goldsmiths University of London used this ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Combining Electromyography and Tactile Myography to Improve Hand and Wrist Activity Detection in Prostheses" paper posted on Technologies/ journal social media platform

The paper of Noémie Jaquier, Mathilde Connan, Claudio Castellini and Sylvain Calinon from Idiap Research Institute and DLR-German Aerospace Center, "Combining ...