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CURRENT NEWS

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

NEWS ARCHIVE

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 interviews 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)

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.