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今後のイベント

2027年3月31日～4月2日：Embodied Intelligence国際会議2027（EI 2027）をオンラインで開催します。プログラムと参加登録の詳細は、学会ウェブサイトをご覧ください。

過去のイベント

2026

18-20 March 2026: EI’26 International Online Conference on Embodied Intelligence.
01 January 2026: Top-of-the-world Learning (Nikkei BP, in Japanese) published

2025

08 December 2025: Doraemon Science World, Robotics (Shogakukan, in Japanese) published
1 October, 2025, A new branch of Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory launching at the University of Tokyo
2-4 April 2025: EI’25 International Online Conference on Embodied Intelligence.
18 February 2025 – Embodied Intelligence Workshop (Full day), Newnham College, Cambridge

2021

05 November 2021: Post-graduate Open Day – Department of Engineering
16 October 2021: Agriforwards CDT New Cohort Welcome Event
24 September 2021: OHMC 2 PPF event
01-02 July 2021: EPSRC ‘Agriforwards’ CDT Annual conference ‘Research and Innovation in Computer Vision for the Agri-Food Industries’
28-30 June 2021: EPSRC ‘Agriforwards’ CDT & IEEE RAS Summer School
24-26 March 2021: 2021 International Workshop on Next Generation Embodied Intelligence.

2020

5 June 2020: BIRL 10th Anniversary Re-union Remote Conference
June 2020: BT Applied Research & Tommy Flowers Network Thought Leadership event: Agri-Food Robot Revolution
2020: IROS 2020 Workshop: Robot-Assisted Training for Primary Care: How can robots help train doctors in medical examinations?
HRI2020 Workshop on Human Robot Medical Interaction (23.03.2020)
First Annual Conference of Agri-Food Robotics Centre of Doctoral Training (19-20.03.2020)

2018

IEEE International Conference of Soft Robotics (RoboSoft2018), Livorno, Italy, April 24-27, 2018.

2016

JSPS-EPSRC UK-Japan Workshop on Bio-inspired Soft Robotics, Cambridge UK, 14-15 July 2016.

2014

International Workshop on Future of Robotics Based on Biological Principles, Cambridge, UK, December 11-12, 2014.

2013

CSF International Workshop on Soft Robotics, Monte Verita, Switzerland, July 2013.

2010

SNF-JSPS Swiss-Japan Joint Seminar on “Soft Robotics: Morphology, materials, and functionalities”, University of Tokyo, June 20-23, 2010.

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ニュースアーカイブ

Historical announcements, including past recruitment notices, are retained below.

2021

24 September 2021 – OHMC 2 PPF event
16 October 2021 – Agriforwards CDT New Cohort Welcome Event
05 November 2021 – Post-graduate Open Day – Department of Engineering
01-02 July 2021 – EPSRC ‘Agriforwards’ CDT Annual conference ‘Research and Innovation in Computer Vision for the Agri-Food Industries’

01-02.07.2021 – EPSRC ‘Agriforwards’ CDT Annual conference ‘Research and Innovation in Computer Vision for the Agri-Food Industries’

28-30.06.2021 – EPSRC ‘Agriforwards’ CDT & IEEE RAS Summer School

24-26.03.2021 – ‘Embodied Intelligence’ International Workshop: the i nterviews with researches and presentation videos.

23.02.2021 – Dr Fumiya Iida’s interview on the Soft Robotics research (IEEE RAS Technical Committee web-site) LISTEN HERE

16.02.2021 – Cambridge engineers unveil Digital Twin to support the ‘future of farming’. READ MORE

2020

01.12.2020 UTokyo-Cambridge Voices Symposium on Information and Robotics Technology

26.11.2020 Postdoc position available in Soft Robotics

05.06.2020 BIRL Re-union remote conference

01.06.2020 Press Release: A good egg: robot chef trained to make omelettes, video, publication

24.04.2020 News article: EPSRC Centre of Doctoral Training Agri-Food Robotics First Annual Conference

22.04.2020 New Publication: Electronic skins and machine learning for intelligent soft robots, Science Robotics

27.03.2020 PhD Studentship available: 15 PhD studentships are available in Marie Curie Innovative Training Network SMART Soft Robotics Project

23.03.2020 Human-Robot Medical Interaction workshop

16.03.2020 New member: George Walker joined BIRL

01.03.2020 New member: Dr Josie Hughes joined BIRL (again)

17.01.2020 New Publication: Large scale automated investigation of Free-Falling Paper shapes via iterative physical experimentation, Nature Machine Intelligence, video

13.01.2020 New member: Dr Simon Hauser joined BIRL (again)

13.01.2020 New Publication: Improving Robotic Cooking using Batch Bayesian Optimization published

2019

26.11.2019 HRI2020 Workshop on Human Robot Medical Interaction

01.11.2019 New job created for Principal Technician (Robotics)
Application deadline: 29.10.2019

01.10.2019 PhD studentships (starting October 2020) available for the EPSRC Agri-Food Robotics CDT

02.09.2019 CUED News: The wall-climbing robot inspired by a leech

01.06.2019 Launch of H2020 FET-OPEN Project on Self-Healing Soft Robotics (News)

01.04.2019 Launch of EPSRC Centre of Doctoral Training on Agri-Food Robotics (News)

2016

13.06.2016 Fumiya talks to ‘Click’ (BBC programme covering advance of technological research)

2015

12.08.2015 Fumiya Iida talks at BBC Victoria Derbyshire

12.08.2015 BBC NEWS: Robots learn to evolve and improve

12.08.2015 University of Cambridge: The origin of (robot) species
Follow ups by: NBC News, The Telegraph, Mail Online, The Times, Motherboard, Ifl Science, Mashable, IO9, E&T, HNGN, Business Weekly, Bioscience Technology, Gizmodo, RT, China.org.cn, Gizmag, English.news.cn, Cambridge News

21.07. 2015 IEEE Spectrum: Mother Robots Build Children Robots to Experiment With Artificial Evolution

01.03.2015 We have moved to the University of Cambridge. Click here for the new web page.

04.02.2015 Two papers by Kim, Y. et al. and Günther, F. et al. have been accepted for IEEE ICRA 2015

2014

10.09.2014 A paper by Wang, Brodbeck and Iida on tool manufacture and use has been published by Journal of the Royal Society Interface

24.07.2014 A paper by Nurzaman et al. has been accepted for publication by Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

16.07.2014 A paper by Culha et al. has been accepted for publication by Sensors

13.05.2014 A paper by Nurzaman et al. has been published in Entropy

22.04.2014 A paper by Marques et al. has been accepted for publication by PLoS Computational Biology

22.04.2014 A paper by Pfeifer et al. has been accepted for publication by Trends in Cognitive Science

20.03.2014 Noonee, one of Swiss national start-up teams ready for a trip to the US

17.01.2014 A paper by Wang et al. has been published in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics (also see coverage by New Scientist, Discovery Channel, Phys.org, Electronic Products, Ny Teknik, Futura Sciences, Biofutur)

14.01.2014 Three papers by Wang et al., Brodbeck, Guenther et al. have been accepted for IEEE ICRA 2014

07.01.2014 The proposal for IEEE ICRA 2014 workshop for soft and stiffness controllable robots for minimally invasive surgery is accepted

2013

26.12.2013 A paper by Nurzaman et al. has been published in PLOS ONE (also see coverage by ETH News, Tages Anzeiger)

07.11.2013 Successfully organized IEEE/RSJ IROS 2013 Workshop on Soft Technologies for Wearable Robots, 07/11/2013, Tokyo, Japan

23.10.2013 Keith Gunura and Bryan Anastasiades were accepted for Venture Kick Stage 2

11.10.2013 Dr. Kohei Nakajima received a Hakubi award from Kyoto University in Japan

25.-29.09.2013 Birl supported art exhibition Natural Intrinsic by Mara Elsa in Zurich

14.-19.07.2013 Successfully organized 2013 International Workshop on Soft Robotics (SoftRobot2013), Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland

26.06.2013 Spin-off Noonee’s website is ready http://www.noonee.ch/

17.06.2013 Paper co-authored with Blumberg from University of Iowa has been published in Current Biology (also see coverage by National Geographic)

04.06.2013 The Venture Kick application was accepted

24.04.2013 Papers by Reis et al., Wang et al., and Leach et al. have been accepted by IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechtronics, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechtronics respectively

2012

26.08.2012 Fumiya’s invited talk at EU Cog III

12.08.2012 Paper by Reis & Iida has been accepted by Artificial Life

14.07.2012 Fumiya Island in Robot Film Festival

01.07.2012 Dr. Hansruedi Frueh is coming to visit our lab

18.-22.06.2012 Successfully organized 2012 ETH Robotics Summer School on Soft Robotics, Zurich, Switzerland

19.05.2012 Paper by Wang & Iida has been accepted by IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

02.04.2012 Welcome new member: Utku Culha

02.04.2012 Welcome new member: Surya Nurzaman

09.03.2012 Bironz meeting by Dr. Scaramuzza, and Dr. Jafari 12.15pm, HG D3.2

17.01.2012 Fumiya’s invited talk at Harvard Bio-Inspired Engineering Symposium

01.01.2012 Welcome new member: Amir Jafari

2011

16.12.2011 Robotics Seminar by Prof. Metta, and Prof. Schaal 15.15pm, ML E12

09.12.2011 Bironz meeting by Dr. Brandeli, and Prof. Sorkine 12.15pm, HG G5

11.11.2011 Bironz meeting by Dr. Roggen and Dr. Paradalier, 12.15pm, HG G5

07.11.2011 Seminar on Musculoskeletal humanoids by Prof. Nakanishi and Dr. Osada, 2.15pm, HG F26.1

14.10.2011 Bironz semester starts

19.09.2011 Fumiya’s new lecture series “bio-inspired motor control“

16.09.2011 Prof. Fumiya Iida appointed as a program committee member of the International Program Committee (IPC) for the 10th IFAC Symposium on Robot Control (SYROCO 2012) in Dubrovnik, Croatia. SYROCO 2012.

12.09.2011 New member: Xiaoxiang Yu

12.09.2011 Fumiya’s invited talk at the ICMC2011.

30.07.2011 Fumiya’s invited talk at the ICINCO2011.

15.07.2011 Robotics summer school – Case study session at ETH Zurich.

22.06.2011 Marc’s paper accepted for IROS2011.

16.06.2011 NCCR Robotics Symposium at ETH Zurich.

01.06.2011 Welcome new member: Luzius Brodbeck.

05.05.2011 Soft Robotics session at the fet11 conference.

22.04.2011 Murat’s paper accepted for AIM2011.

13.04.2011 BIRL supports robotics researchers in Japan.

23.03.2011 Fumiya’s invited talk at the Robolift11 conference.

14.03.2011 PC Member of the International Workshop on Intelligent Robotics.

09.03.2011 [Special Issue] on Bio-Inspired Robotics in Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics.

04.03.2011 BiRoNZ-Meeting, 12.00-13.00, HG D 7.2.

13.02.2011 Special Issue on Soft Robotics in Advanced Robotics Journal. read more.

01.02.2011 Welcome new members: Hugo Marques (Postdoc), Derek Leach (PhD).

24.01.2011 New paper published in International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR).

20.01.2011 Invited for program committee member of European Conference of Artificial Life (ECAL2011).

2010

10.12.2010 Invited for program committee member of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO2011).

01.12.2010 NCCR Robotics launched successfully!

01.12.2010 ETHIIRA Grant Proposal on “Autonomous Robotic Growth with Thermoplastic Adhesive” was approved!

05.11.2010 BiRoNZ-Meeting, 12.00-13.00, HG D 1.2.

08.10.2010 BiRoNZ-Meeting, 12.00-13.00, HG E 5

21.09.2010 Lecture of Prof. Fumiya Iida, Bio-Inspired Motor Control, 9.00-12.00, HG E 22.

20.09.2010 New member: Kevin Frey, master student, semester project, leaving 20.12.2010.

07.09.2010 Talk of Dr. Takuya Hashimoto, visiting scientist, academic guest from Tokyo University of Science, Japan: Robot Technology for Supporting Human Activity, 12.15 – 13.00, LFO G 25.

01.09.2010 New members: Dr. Takuya Hashimoto, visiting scientist, academic guest from Tokyo University of Science, Japan, dept. of mech. eng., leaving 15.09.2010.

Marc Osswald, master student, master project,finishing 28 February 2011, and Juanjo Fernandez Bocanegra, Erasmus student, master project, finishing 28 February 2011.

24.08.2010 New member: Dr. Murat Reis, academic guest from University of Uludag, Engineering Faculty, Görükle-Bursa/ Turkey, research and teaching assistant in mech. eng., leaving 23.08.2011.

01.07.2010 New member: Burcu Karadeniz, guest student from University of Sabanci, Istanbul, Turkey, undergraduate student, finishing 31.08.2010

28.05.2010 Third BiRoNZ Meeting.

11.05.2010 New member: Fabian Müller, master student, semester project, finishing in October 2010.

10.05.2010 New members: Akshay Jain, guest student from India, finished in July 2010.

23.04.2010 Introduction Lecture of Prof. Dr. Fumiya Iida:
“Bio-Inspired Motor Control for Autonomous Robots”
23.04.2010, 17.15, HG F 30, for more details: ETHZ Veranstaltungskalender

16.04.2010 Second BiRoNZ Meeting.

15.04.2010 NCCR Robotics has been approved by the Swiss Government.

25.03.2010 Seminar Jonas Buchli:Robust Control Strategies for Locomotion and Manipulation through Compliance and Force Control. Speaker: Jonas Buchli. HG G 26.1, 3 pm.

05.03.2010 First BiRoNZ Meeting.

01.03.2010 New member: Fabian Günther, master student, semester project, finished in July 2010.

23.02.2010 New member: Cristian Montillo, master student, master degree project, finishing 30.08.2010.

27./28.01.2010 Poster Presentation on Cogsys 2010.

14.01.2010 SNF-JSPS Seminar proposal accepted.
04.01.2010 New members: Christina Lütolf-Aecherli, Pascal Wespe.

2009

22.12.2009 Iida,Tedrake (2010) published in Autonomous Robots.

03.08.2009 BIRL Opening:
The Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory was started at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.