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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).

Multiple International Awards Secured by Idiap in June 2026

research — Jun 23, 2026

June 2026 has emerged as a period of great success at Idiap, with the Institute receiving several prestigious international distinctions across the fields of human–computer interaction, computer vision, robotics, and advanced industrial technologies.

New SNSF, EU and regional funding secured

research — Apr 13, 2026

The Institute has secured significant new competitive funding at national and European levels, reaffirming the excellence of its research in a challenging funding environment.

Get Your Portrait drawn by drozBot at the Foire du Valais 2025

events — Sep 22, 2025

From September 26 to October 5, step into the fascinating world of artificial intelligence with drozBot, Idiap’s portraitist robot, at the Innothèque during the Foire du Valais!

Idiap distinguishes two students for their outstanding work

institute — Dec 20, 2023

Each year the institute gives two awards to distinguish two of its students. In 2023, the Best Paper Award went to Tobias Löw, and the Student Award to Hatef Otroshi Shahreza. Congratulations!

Intuitive robot programming to help the watch industry

tech — Mar 09, 2023

Luminous paints make it possible to tell the time on analogue timepieces even in the dark. These compounds are still applied manually, as conventional automation solutions are not suitable for this task. That’s why researchers from Idiap and Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH are developing a flexible robot system that can be programmed by showing it what to do.

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