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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 ...

Euronews video on DexROV project trials: "How will the new intelligent breed of ROVs benefit us?"

The DexROV team has just completed a 2 weeks long campaign of integration and tests in the DexROV project, with a satellite link established between Brussels ...

Best Paper Award for the Dr Sylvain Calinon

Dr Sylvain Calinon received the 2017 Best Paper Award of the Intelligent Service Robotics (ISR) journal for his article "A Tutorial on Task-Parameterized ...

Idiap's Baxter robot and the research behind it featured in "Le Nouvelliste"

Thanks to Idiap researchers, the Baxter robot is able to learn from its mistakes.

DexROV holds first official review with European Commission

Nineteen months after the undersea-operations project was launched, DexROV has successfully completed its first funding review as part of the European ...

Robot graffiti artist is the Banksy of the mechanical world

Best not left alone on the back of a bus