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).

 

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.

Idiap awards 2022
institute — Dec 21, 2022

Every year, the Institute nominates two students for its internal awards. In 2022, the Paper Award goes to Alexandre Bittar, and the Student Award goes to Teguh Lembono. Congratulations!

Fully customizable robot to develop new algorithms
research — Jun 14, 2022

The Robot Learning & Interaction research group at Idiap has recently acquired a new tool. A small quadruped robot named SOLO12, whose mission will be to allow the researchers and engineers of the institute to develop new robotic applications based on artificial intelligence.

Idiap is looking for its next director
institute — Jan 14, 2022

Idiap Research Institute and the School of Engineering at EPFL invite applications for the directorship of Idiap. The successful candidate will also hold a faculty position as full professor at EPFL School of Engineering.

Group Job Openings

Our group is regularly posting job openings ranging from internships to researcher positions. To check the opportunities currently available or to submit a speculative applications use the link below.Our group is regularly posting job openings ranging from internships to researcher positions. To check the opportunities currently available or to submit a speculative applications use the link below.

Current Group Members

The group is led by Sylvain Calinon.

CALINON, Sylvain
(Senior Research Scientist)
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HERMUS, James
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
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LÖW, Tobias
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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BILALOGLU, Cem
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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LI, Yiming
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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ZHANG, Yan
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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XUE, Teng
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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MARIĆ, Ante
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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RAZMJOO FARD, Amirreza
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
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SCHONGER, Martin
(Research Intern)
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LANCA, Luka
(Research Intern)
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JAKAC, Karlo
(Research Intern)
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Alumni

Please note that this list is not exhaustive.

  • ABBET, Christian
  • BERIO, Daniel
  • BOURGEOIS, Dylan
  • BRAGLIA, Giovanni
  • BRUDERMÜLLER, Lara
  • CARMINATI, Davide
  • CHI, Xuemin
  • DONG, Yifei
  • FLATTOT, Vincent
  • GAO, Xiao
  • GEVERS, Louis
  • GINDROZ, Mickael
  • GIRGIN, Hakan
  • GULJELMOVIC, Nikol
  • HADJMBAREK, Nadia
  • HAVOUTIS, Ioannis
  • HONOREZ, Valentin
  • JANKOWSKI, Julius
  • JAQUIER, Noémie
  • JIANG, Xiaowen
  • KULAK, Thibaut
  • KUPCSIK, Andras (Gabor)
  • LEMBONO, Teguh (Santoso)
  • LESUR, Jean
  • LOKIETKO, Jaroslaw
  • MA, Wei
  • MAETZ, Théo (Romi Azhary)
  • MARIÉTHOZ, Cédric
  • MICHEL, Tobias
  • MONNET, Stephen
  • NIEDERBERGER, Adolf (Kilian)
  • NIU, Zhenwei
  • NOBAR, Mahdi
  • PAOLILLO, Antonio
  • PIAGET, Jehan
  • PIGNAT, Emmanuel
  • PILLET, Maxime
  • RACCA, Mattia
  • SHETTY, Suhan (N.)
  • SILVERIO, João (Pedro Lourenço)
  • SOUSA EWERTON, Marco (Antonio)
  • STANDAERT, Florian
  • SUOMALAINEN, Markku (Heikki)
  • TANWANI, Ajay (Kumar)
  • TAO, Dominique
  • TAVASSOLI, Mehrdad
  • THOO, Yong Joon
  • TI, Boyang
  • TROUSSARD, Martin
  • VAES, Clément
  • WÜTSCHERT, Robin

Active Research Grants

Past Research Grants