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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 ...

Intuitive robot programming to help the watch industry

Luminous paints make it possible to tell the time on analogue timepieces even in the dark. These compounds are still applied manually, as conventional ...

Laterna Magica, the smart beamer

Along his team mates, Sylvain Calinon, head of the Robot Learning & Interaction research group, took part in Idiap Create Challenge 2022 edition. Laterna ...

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 ...

Idiap pursues its development with new scientific research groups. Recently, the institute has acquired an American robot worth CHF 30’000.-. This investment ...

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 ...

Robot graffiti artist is the Banksy of the mechanical world

Best not left alone on the back of a bus

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 ...

Six papers accepted at IEEE ICRA 2021

The Robot Learning & Interaction group will be presenting a total of six papers at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2021.

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 ...