8-12 Jul 2024 Villeneuve d’Ascq (France) The use of deformations in robotics is one of the most active fields of application and research. To train the next generation of researchers and engineers, the PEPR O2R, Inria, CNRS, Centrale Lille and the University of Lille are joining forces to organize a summer…
We are excited to announce the release of SOFA v22.12! To learn more about the changes in this release, please visit the official SOFA website at https://www.sofa-framework.org/about/sofa-v22-12/. Here you’ll find detailed information about the new features, as well as instructions on how to upgrade your existing simulations to take advantage…
Three people from DEFROST (Quentin, Yinoussa and Paul) took part in this year’s RIC event on Friday 7 October. The aim of the day was for Cristal’s research teams to present their research activities to master and bachelor students. Paul gave a demonstration of his pneumatic flexible robot segment, controlled…
Organized in the form of 5-day academic and practical programs for students from Europe and the UK between 2022/07/04 to 2022/07/08 by DEFROST, the summer school on the topic of Deformation in Robotics (Def-Robotics2022) finished last week. Targeted towards young Master’s and PhD students in Soft Robotics, Def-Robotics2022 hosted around 60…
Many doctoral students have presented their work at the JRDA (Journée régionale des doctorants en automatique) in Douai on June 14, 2022. The program: presentation of the works and award of a 300 euros prize for the best poster. Paul won this prize with his poster Soft robot design for…
Congratulations to Felix Vanneste who defended his PhD thesis on Thursday June 25, 2022 on the subject: “Modeling of soft robots made of anisotropic mesostructured materials“. Good luck with the next step!
DEFROST team seminar has started up in Mont-Saint-Aubert! On the program: team organization, futur works, and more !
The DEFROST team is happy to announce the “2022 Summer School on Deformation in Robotics”, taking place in Lille between the 4th and 8th of July 2022. Please find all the information on the corresponding website.
A new internship position is available in the team. The topic is “Developing a web front-end to demonstrate the use of genetics algorithms to generate soft-robots”. https://team.inria.fr/defrost/job-offers/developing-a-web-front-end-to-demonstrate-the-use-of-genetics-algorithms-to-generate-soft-robots/
On December 16, 2021, the artist Dewi Brunet, in collaboration with Olivier Goury from Defrost, presented the object of his residency in the team, and participated to an art/science debate. Dewi is hosted in the team. The objective is to ease the collaboration between an artist and a research lab. Together, they…
