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Robot Learning & Interaction

The Robot Learning & Interaction group focuses on human-centered robotics applications in which the robots can acquire new skills from only few demonstrations and interactions.

It requires the development of models that can exploit the structure and geometry of the acquired data in an efficient way, the development of optimal control techniques that can exploit the learned task variations and coordination patterns, and the development of intuitive interfaces to acquire meaningful demonstrations.

The developed approaches can be applied to a wide range of manipulation skills, with robots that are either close to us (assistive and industrial robots), parts of us (prosthetics and exoskeletons), or far away from us (teleoperation).

Group News

Best Poster Award, Invited Talk, and Workshop Organization during IEEE ICRA 2021

research — last modified Jun 10, 2021

The Robot Learning & Interaction group had several activities during the workshop days of the IEEE ICRA 2021 conference.

Six papers accepted at IEEE ICRA 2021

research — last modified Mar 05, 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.

COB'HOOK project featured on IEEE spectrum website

research — last modified Nov 17, 2020

The video shows recent experiments with our bimanual robot to insert a thread into a needle by using active sensing techniques.

Robots and humans collaborate to play music together

research — Jan 22, 2020

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 approach to demonstrate the concept with a piano.

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

research — Nov 07, 2019

The Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) awarded the best presentation award to Noémie Jaquier. In collaboration with the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI), she presented a paper which highlights how mathematics and machine learning can help to find solutions to problems in robotics.

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Group Job Openings

Several Openings for Cross-Disciplinary Senior Researcher positions — by admin — last modified Mar 01, 2021: With the growth of the institute, in addition to increased Federal funding to further support its activities, Idiap is opening several additional permanent senior research scientist positions.
Human-Robot Interfaces for Interactive Robot Programming — by admin — last modified Jul 20, 2021: For robots to be widely adopted across industries and beyond structured manufacturing environments,it is critical for them to be programmable by a wide range of users. Growing research on End User Programming (EUP) for robotics aims to address this problem with novel user interfaces, programming languages, and techniques to aid or fully automate robot programming.