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Myosuit in a new clinical study

The SMS Lab has started a clinical study, together with the Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin (DHZB) and Charitè Hospital, to use the Myosuit to support physical training of patients with cardiac insufficiency. The study is led by Prof. Reiner and Prof. Dr. Volkmar Falk, director of the DHZB Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, and co-funded […]

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Postdoctoral fellowship in Learning and Control of Soft Grasping

The EPFL Laboratory of Intelligent Systems invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in learning and control of soft grippers. The postdoctoral fellow will join a diverse team of postdocs and PhD students working on mechanical design, materials, and integration of compliant and lightweight grippers for grasping, perching, and manipulation of rigid and deformable objects. The project is carried out […]

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Postdoctoral fellowship in Learning and Control of Avian-Inspired Drones

The EPFL Laboratory of Intelligent Systems invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship to study learning and control of agile flight in avian-inspired drones. The candidate will join a team of postdocs and PhD students working on mechanical design, aerodynamic modelling, meta-materials, embedded computation, machine learning, and control of new feathered drones with unprecedented agility and multi-modal locomotion. The laboratory has […]

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Open position: Sensory-Motor Systems Lab

The Sensory-Motor Systems (SMS) Lab at ETH Zurich is looking for a motivated candidate to pursue a PhD  (~4 years) starting in early 2021.  The SMS Lab designs wearable robots to help people with motor disabilities in their daily life. We do this through an iterative user-centered, data-driven approach that involves fast prototyping, biomechanical analysis […]

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Cybathlon 2020 Global Edition

More than 50 teams from all over the world competed against each other in the CYBATHLON 2020 Global Edition during the 13th and 14th of November 2020. NCCR Robotics spin-off TWIICE competed in the EPFL chapter on Nov. 14 and won the silver medal. The event will be virtual and live streamed. Don’t miss out! cybathlon.ethz.ch/en The event […]

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Robotics Today

Davide Scaramuzza was an invited speaker at the Robotics Today’s seminar series organized by MIT and Stanford, where he talked about Learning to Fly, covering topics ranging from perception to planning and control, from model-based to model-free autonomy Watch the presentation

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Forest welling drones

The Kovac lab at EMPA has developed drones that can attach sensors to trees to monitor environmental and ecological changes in forests, tested them at NEST experimental robot testing space at Empa and on trees at Imperial College London’s Silwood Park Campus Read more

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ANYmal for construction safety

ANYbotics partnered with construction firm Losinger Marazzi to explore ANYmal’s potential to patrol their sites to identify and report safety issues—some of which cannot be detected by human senses. With such a complex environment, only a robot designed to navigate difficult terrain is able to bring digitalization to such a physically demanding industry. The case-study […]