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Note: The News Channel lists all of the news articles published since October 2016 – for older articles please refer to the EPFL News Archive.

Call for papers: International Journal of Social Robotics

23.01.17 – Special Issue in International Journal of Social Robotics: Please submit the journal manuscripts by 01 March 2017.Research in Human-Robot interaction is being vastly applied to assist humans in their everyday lives. Pertaining to this context is the application of robots for educational purposes, which has been emerging these past few years. Some robotic platforms …

Change in Management

We are pleased to announce Jan Kerschgens as NCCR Robotics Managing Director & Knowledge and Technology Transfer Officer. We also take this opportunity to thank Anne-Christine Butty for her valuable input and contributions to NCCR Robotics.

ANYmal – Best Paper Award at IROS

Congratulations to the Hutter Lab for winning the IROS best paper Award. We also take this opportunity to encourage you to visit the new NCCR Robotics Spin Fund ANYbotics website where you can subscribe to their newsletter.

Internships and Fellowships

09.01.17 – We are pleased to announce that three women Master’s internships and four PhD/Postdoc fellowships have been awarded for Y7.Read more

Scaramuzza Lab Honoured in 2016 World Robotics Report

09.01.17 – Scaramuzza Lab was one of the three outstanding research labs to present their research portfolio, experimental resources and fields of activity in the World Robotics Service Robots 2016 Report.World Robotics Service Robots 2016 Report

Artificial feathers take flight

16.12.16 – Bioinspired robots that take their designs from biology has been a big research area in recent years, but a team from NCCR Robotics, Floreano Lab have just gone one step further and designed a feathered drone to fully replicate the agile flight of birds.Small winged drones can experience sudden and extreme variations in aerodynamic conditions, for …

Hutter Lab win IEEE RAS best paper award 2016

14.12.16 – Congratulations to the Hutter Lab who won the IEEE RAS best paper award at IROS 2016 for their paper “ANYmal – a Highly Mobile and Dynamic Quadrupedal Robot”. Read more.

Stéphanie Lacour appointed Full Professor

12.12.16 – Congratulations to Prof. Stéphanie Lacour who has been appointed Full Professor of Microtechnology and Bioengineering in the School of Engineering (STI), EPFL.Prof. Lacour has recently made news with her work in NCCR Robotics with both the e-dura implant and the stretchable solid-liquid electrical film. Read more.

Open Postdoc positions

07.12.16 – We are looking for two Postdocs in soft wearable robotics.*****Postdoc in Soft Wearable Robotics: Kinetic / Haptic feedback The EPFL Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (Prof. Dario Floreano, http://lis.epfl.ch) and the EPFL Translational Neural Engineering Lab (Prof. Silvestro Micera, http:// tne.epfl.ch) invite applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in wearable technologies for human-robot interaction. The postdoc will work …