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2022-04-13

Newly-funded EU project in autonomous shotcrete for construction robotics! We are opening two PhD positions to address the computer vision and adaptive manipulation challenges that underpin autonomous shotcrete. Apply here.

2022-04-13

Co-edited this Frontiers in Robotics and AI special issue on Robotic In-Situ Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing.

2022-01-23

Happily served on the Ph.D. committee of Ali Varamesh at KU Leuven.

2021-11-18

Happily served on the Ph.D. committee of Frederik Haarslev at the University of Southern Denmark.

2021-01-03

I am giving a talk today at the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) Telecon Seminar Presentations, 3pm EST = 2100 CET. See this page for dial-in details. A copy of the slides is available here. Live screen-share of the slides during the talk at this link.

2020-10-29

I will give a virtual talk at the NeurIPS 2020 workshop on AI for Earth Sciences on Dec 12. Title: Autonomous Robot Manipulation for Planetary Science: Mars Sample Return, Climbing Lava Tubes.

2020-08-30

Our ICRA 2020 in-space assembly workshop has moved to IROS, due to the pandemic. Virtual contributions are now welcome: RIMSAS 2020Robotic In-Situ Manufacturing, Structural Assembly And Servicing

IROS 2020

2020-01-07

Our ICRA 2020 workshop RIMSAS 2020Robotic In-Situ Manufacturing, Structural Assembly And Servicing has been accepted!

ICRA 2020

2019-08-06

The InVADER website is live:

https://invader-mission.org

InVADER will study underwater hydrothermal systems at Axial Seamount, the largest and most active volcano on western boundary of the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate off the coast of Oregon. The vents at the Axial Seamount generate chemical energy which can sustain life, and are high-fidelity analogues to putative vent systems on Ocean Worlds.

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2018-06-29

Beautiful video of a field test we ran in Death Valley last December:

2018-06-22

Giving a talk at RSS Workshop on Scalable Learning for Integrated Perception and Planning.

2019-04-08

Giving a talk at Samsung AI NYC.

2018-09-22

NASA PSTAR proposal selected and fully funded!

Our robot will study hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, with instruments that reveal vent structure and chemical/biological composition.

This technique will ultimately enable the search for alien life inside the subsurface oceans of Europa and Enceladus – Jupiter and Saturn's icy moons.

"In-situ Vent Analysis Divebot for Exobiology Research!"

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2018-06-29

Presenting our work on task-oriented grasping and semantic scene understanding for planetary exploration at the Deep Learning Summit San Francisco!

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2018-06-01

A pleasure to visit ATR again!

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2018-05-29

Presenting our paper Turbid-water Subsea Infrastructure 3D Reconstruction with Assisted Stereo at IEEE Oceans 2018 in Kobe!

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2017-09-28

Our paper Task-oriented Grasping with Semantic and Geometric Scene Understanding received the Best Paper Award on Cognitive Robotics at IROS 2017!

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2016-02-29

Moved to NASA/JPL.

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2015-10-01

New demo: clearing up a table autonomously, using a grasp model that the robot has learn via demonstration.

Clearing up a table autonomously, using a grasp model that the robot has learn via demonstration (More details). Download this video in MP4/H.264 or WebM/VP8, or view it on Youtube.

2015-09-10

Upcoming TRS tutorial: Hamburg, Germany, September 2015, at IROS.

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2015-05-30

Best Reviewer Award at ICRA

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2015-03-20

Very interesting visits to KIT Karlsruhe and MPI Tübingen this week. Thanks a lot Tamim and Alex Herzog!

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2015-01-10

Our robot manipulation platform at ULg: Universal Robots arm, Robotiq gripper, ATI F/T sensor, two Kinects, and homemade aluminum structure.

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2014-09-14

Thanks everyone for a great morning at IROS/TRS2014!

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2014-05-31

Thanks everyone for a great day at ICRA/AG&M2014!

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2014-05-01

Teaching-robotics.org is now online! Contact me if you would like to share teaching material. Take a look at TRS: An Open-source Recipe for Teaching/Learning Robotics with a Simulator!

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2014-04-15

I will give a talk on teaching robotics with a simulator at the ICRA 2014 workshop: MATLAB/Simulink for Robotics Education and Research in June.

2014-04-15

Upcoming tutorial at IROS 2014 in Chicago: TRS 2014 – An Open-source Recipe for Teaching/Learning Robotics with a Simulator, setup a laptop in 5 minutes, write a control, navigation, vision or manipulation program in 100 lines of code. With Peter Corke and Marc Freese.

TRS 2014

2014-02-10

Our ICRA 2014 workshop AG&M 2014Autonomous Grasping and Manipulation: An Open Challenge has been accepted! We warmly welcome extended abstracts.

AGnM 2014

2014-01-08

At ROSEC 2014 in Seoul, giving a tutorial on robot grasping.

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2013-11-03

Thanks everyone for a great day at IROS/CRS2013!

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2013-08-28

New robotics course this semester at the University of Liège!

Kuka

2013-05-10

Join us at our workshop on cognitive systems (CRS 2013) at IROS. If there is an issue that you would like to discuss during the panel discussion, send it to us and we'll try to bring it up. See discussion questions on the CRS webpage.

CRS2013

2013-01-30

New video on part-based grasp transfer! Check it out here.


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