Had a great time at #Automate fair in Chicago with Flanders Investment & Trade

New BruBotics VUB paper: Optimistic Reinforcement Learning-Based Skill Insertions for Task and Motion Planning
paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10522…
video: youtu.be/mlLTIFM01ig?si…

New paper Mitigating collision forces and improving response performance in human-robot interaction by using dual-motor actuators ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10517…
Tom Verstraten Bram Vanderborght

Prof Emanuele Garone organising @brias_social forum in War&Peace and Robotics. The forum is live and recorded on our Youtube channel: youtube.com/@BrIAStalks FARI - AI for the Common Good Institute

Ook dit jaar voorzien we weer heel wat robotdemonstraties rond snelle en veilige robots, uwb localization, digital twins, exoskeletons en sustainable suction cups.

Shirley Elprama of imec-smit, VUB on human robot interaction in production context during @brias_social forum on sustainable human robot collaboration

Marta Lorenzini of IIT Talks presenting dueing @brias_social sustainability in the production domain via human-robot collaboration also performed in SOPHIA EU Project

2nd day of #ScienceIsWonderful . Come visit us at the booth #22. RezaKashef SMARTitn #EICShinto

The research paper of RezaKashef on SMA Wire Use in Hybrid Twisting and Bending/Extending Soft Fiber-Reinforced Actuators was used on cover of MDPI Actuators journal

mdpi.com/2076-0825/13/4

#EICShinto

Prof An Jacobs from imec-smit, VUB kicking off the @brias_social Forum on sustainable human-robot collaboration. Follow here the forum youtube.com/live/d9egbT778…

Exciting day at #ScienceIsWonderful showing our work in self-healing soft robots! SMARTitn #EICShinto . Day 1/2. RezaKashef

SMARTitn Early Stage Researchers are in focus on the poster 'Empowering future leaders with the SMART project' for Multiple Career Pathways of Researchers in #MSCA2024BE in Mons Belgium!
BruBotics VUB FYSC_VUB

New BruBotics VUB paper Modeling of flexible shaft for robotics applications

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Tom Verstraten Bram Vanderborght

New BruBotics VUB paper Flexible Shaft as Remote and Elastic Transmission for Robot Arms

ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10494…

Tom Verstraten Bram Vanderborght

The work of Kelly Merckaert on Real-time constraint-based planning and control of robotic manipulators for safe human–robot collaboration featured in Robotics Friday spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-c…?

Last Session of Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies forum with Circular Economy and Applications (End of life)         
◦Ales Ude (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)

youtube.com/live/wVjdnAhtt…

Session 3 of @brias_social on Sustainable Materials and Applications (Production) 

◦Alix Partridge (University of Bristol)
◦Joost Brancart (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
◦Seppe Terryn (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

Session 2 on @brias_social: Energy Efficiency and Applications (Use Phase)    

◦Goldar Davila Alejandro (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
◦Abhishek Gupta (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
◦Kris Verdonck (A Two Dogs Company, Belgium)

Session 1 on @brias_social forum: Responsible Innovation and Artificial Intelligence (Development) 
◦Michel Joop van der Schoor (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
◦Ward van der Tempel (Voxelsensors, Belgium)
◦Sophia Falk (Universität Bonn, Germany)

Our @brias_social forum on sustainable robotic technologies started. One dag how robots can be made more sustainable with values on increased lifespan, circularity, resource conservation, environmental justice and ethical deployment.