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Field Tests

As part of our commitment to developing robots for use in real world applications, we organise annual practice sessions with professionals from the search and rescue community and take our… Read more

Human Robot Interaction

Have you ever dreamed of flying? The Symbiotic Drone Activity is a project that aims to give you the sensation of flying while controlling a real drone. The goal of… Read more

We would like to inform our members that Jonas Buchli ceased his activities with NCCR Robotics end of March 2017. He will be taking up a position in the private sector and will continue the PhD supervision of Alexander Winkler until his graduation. Algorithms and Software developed at Jonas’ lab are or will be published open-source …

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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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ANYmal – Best Paper Award at IROS

Posted on: January 9, 2017

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.

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.

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...
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/
5 Jul 2017 12:00 am	RSS 2017 Workshop: Challenges in Dynamic Legged Locomotion Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge	The performance of modern legged robots still pales in comparison to their biological counterparts in terms of speed, robustness, versatility, and efficiency. The technical challenges that fuel this gap touch...
21 Jun 2017 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm	Talk by Prof. Harmut Geyer (CMU) on neuromechanical modeling of human locomotion ME D1 1518, ecublens Suisse	Research at CMU’s Legged Systems Group Prof. Harmut Geyer, Carnegie Mellon University https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hgeyer/ Abstract: Research at CMU’s legged systems group focuses on three questions: What are the principles of legged...
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
13 Feb 2017 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm	Talk by Dr Diego Pardo (ETHZ) Legged Robots: Stepping out of the continuous and differentiable zone. 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
13 Jul – 15 Jul 2016 All Day	Workshop on Dynamic Locomotion and Manipulation (DLMC2016) ETH Zurich, Zurich	Please see the website http://www.dlmc2016.ethz.ch/