The Auctus team was happy to host the visit of Thomas Flayols and Virgile Batto, collaborators from the Gepetto team at LAAS (CNRS). They presented their recent works on the design and control of quadruped and bipedal robots. Virgile’s PhD Thesis is part of a close collaboration between the two teams about the design of a dynamic robot leg. Talks Thomas Flayols, CNRS Research Engineer at LAAS, Ongoing research and mechatronic development on legged robots at LAAS: The ODRI open motor controllers and quadruped designs. [Read More]
The Auctus team is delighted to receive the visit of Philip Long on November 6 and 7. Dr. Philip Long is a Lecturer in Robotics & Automation at Atlantic Technological University, Galway (ATU), Ireland and currently PI of the SFI Robomate project. His research interests include human-robot collaboration, sensor-based control of robot manipulators, cable-driven parallel robots and flexible manufacturing. He has extensive experience in technology transfer projects in robotics, having worked in both industry and academia for over 15 years. [Read More]
The Auctus team is delighted to receive the visit of Ludovic Righetti on October 23 and 24. Ludovic Righetti is an associate professor at the Tandon School of Engineering of New York University. Currently on sabbatical leave, he is a visiting researcher at the LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse. He holds an Engineering Diploma in Computer Science and a Doctorate in Science from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California and a group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. [Read More]