Internship proposal: Optimization toolbox for soft-robots [Closed]

Short description This internship proposal concerns students from second year of master degree, interested in a research internship, with possibility of continuing works in Ph.D. The intern will be asked to study existing parallelization techniques and to develop a specific one for an optimization problem resolution. Key Words : parallel…

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Soft Robotics Design Competition 2015

Our FeTCh Mark 1 Manipulator has been selected as one of the runners up in the Soft Robotics Design Competition 2015. More information and soon to be published technical details at Soft Robotics Toolkit website

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50 shades of soft robots

Christian Duriez has published an article on the blog Binaire (blog dedicated to digital science hosted on Le Monde website) about soft robots. The article is available in french at the following address: 50 nuances de robots mous !

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Defrost & Pop·Science

Because we believe that it is truly important to explain what soft robotics is about, we have recently been involved in several popular science events. For instance, Eulalie and Jeremie have spend one afternoon with high-school students to explain what digital science is and more specifically what is soft robotics…

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Neurosurgical simulator demo

The neurosurgical simulator prototype that was built in the team will be available at the french congress of neurosurgery. The simulator allows to train skills and gestures to perform the clipping of an aneurysm. More information can be found in the french congress of neurosurgery

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Talk at Beyond Lab Event

Christian Duriez will give a talk at the Robotic Evening for Beyond Lab Association. Beyond Lab tries to gather researchers, designers, engineers and marketers around the future of robotics. The event will take place in Lille this Thursday (19/02/2015). More info: Beyond Lab event on Robotics

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Defrost @ the french Senate

Inria was invited by the french senator Catherine Morin-Desailly to present some research results related to digital science to senators. Thus we were at the Palais du Luxembourg the feb, 11th with other Inria teams where we had the honor and pleasure to present our work on soft robotics to…

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Kick-Off Meeting

As a new team at Inria / CRIStAL (University of Lille), we decided to have a kick-off meeting to meet the new members (Olivier, PostDoc) and to brainstorm about new projects, ideas and soft robot prototype that we want to build for the next months. It took place in the…

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Hello World !

The Defrost has officially started this year. We are building up all the necessary stuff to keep you up-to-date and tell you about what we are doing on soft robotics. We already have some exciting announcements for the next few weeks. Stay tuned or follow Defrost on twitter (@Defrost_Lille) for…

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