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NCCR Robotics is a consortium of robotics laboratories across Switzerland, working on robots for improving the quality of life and to strengthen robotics in Switzerland and worldwide. Newsletter

News 6

HFSP Awards – Research Grants

Posted on: April 21, 2017

Auke Ijspeert was listed as one of the winners of the 2017 awards for Research Grants (Program Grants) from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP). Read more

Meet the Ijspeert Lab

Posted on: April 21, 2017

In the new NCCR Robotics Lab videos we introduce the NCCR Robotics lab, PI, NCCR Robotics members and their work. On this occasion we present Ijspeert Lab.

Six-Legged Robots Faster than Nature-Inspired Gait

Posted on: February 17, 2017

Chances are that you’ve never given much thought to how insects walk, or what combination of leg movements – or gaits – is most stable or fastest, but, if like a group of scientists from Ramdya, Floreano and Ijspeert labs, NCCR Robotics, you are trying to create fast and robust robots, taking inspiration some of nature’s most agile movers might give …

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K-ROCK meets his cousin

Posted on: January 26, 2017

26.01.17 – Tune in to Spy in the Wild on BBC 1 on 26th January at 20:00 GMT to see NCCR Robotics’ newest robot in action. Producers from John Downer productions for BBC One’s Spy in the Wild first approached Ijspeert Lab, EPFL in 2015 to ask them to create two robots, a crocodile and a monitor lizard, to be …

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Artificial feathers take flight

Posted on: December 16, 2016

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 …

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Hutter Lab win IEEE RAS best paper award 2016

Posted on: December 14, 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.

Events 7

Past Events

Date/Time	Event	Description
3 Dec – 4 Dec 2018 All Day	BMI Symposium 2018 "Controlling behavior" EPFL, Lausanne Suisse	Prof. Pavan Ramdya, Prof. Carl Petersen & Prof. Auke Ijspeert (NCCR Robotics PI) invite you to the 2018 BMI Symposium on "Controlling behavior". With this one and a half day symposium, we...
26 Jun 2018 All Day	Seminar: Bioinspired Robotics EPFL, Lausanne Suisse	EPFL Bioinspired Platform invites you to their next Research & Industry Seminar on the topic of Bioinspired Robotics. Join them to learn how researchers and companies and are getting...
12 Sep – 15 Sep 2017 All Day	11th Conference on Field and Service Robotics ETH Zurich, Zurich	For more details and to register please see: https://www.fsr.ethz.ch/
28 Mar 2017 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm	Talks: By Professor Fumiya Iida & By Professor Robert J. Full EPFL, Lausanne Suisse	Talks: Model-free design optimization of soft robots: Any hope? By Professor Fumiya Iida (Cambridge Univ.), (14:30 – 15:30). BioMotion Science: Leapin’ Lizards, Compressed Cockroaches and Smart Squirrels Inspire Robots By...
16 Mar 2017 10:00 am – 11:00 am	Talk by Prof. Eric Tytell (Tufts University), Quantifying responses to perturbations during locomotion in fish MED 115 18, EPFL, Lausanne
16 Dec 2016 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm	Talk: MIT Cheetah: new design paradigm shift toward mobile robots, ETH Distinguished Lecture in Robotics, Systems & Control - Sangbae Kim ETH Zurich, HG G3, Zurich
19 Nov 2016 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm	Talk: Insect-inspired technologies for civilian drones by Dario Floreano ETH Zurich, HG G3, Zurich