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What if virtual reality helped the rehabilitation of Covid-19 patients in resuscitation? Verare, an innovative concept implemented in record time thanks to a close collaboration between the Hybrid research team and the teams from the intensive care and physical and rehabilitation medicine departments of Rennes University Hospital A few weeks before the health crisis, the Hybrid research team [..]

As part of the European ADAPT project, Marie Babel (associate professor INSA in Rainbow research team) is working on the development of a device to assist in driving an electric wheelchair. Today, not all people with disabilities have access to electric wheelchairs. At the risk of jeopardizing people's safety, the visual impairment, for example, does not allow this type of chair to be driven. And [..]

In 2017, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes makes an astonishing discovery about its 2500-year-old Egyptian cat mummy, which has been carefully preserved in the collections since 1923. This discovery will fuel an international research collaboration, one of the results of which can be seen at the Museum of Fine Arts. A study conducted in Manchester on nearly 800 animal mummies from ancient Egypt [..]

Can we turn off the light or zap from one TV channel to another simply by brain activity? As part of its research platform on the connected home, Orange Labs is beginning to explore the potential of neural interfaces... Science fiction? Not quite anymore. When the brain makes a decision, neurons produce electrical impulses. An electroencephalographic headset can pick up these signals on the scalp [..]

The year ends and starts well for Learn&Go and its Kaligo application. Indeed, in November 2019, Learn&Go, with its Kaligo application, won first place in the sixth edition of the Global EdTech Start-up Awards France (GESA France). From now on, as a winning company, Learn&Go will represent France at the global edition of GESA [1]. And on January 23, 2020, Kaligo took second place on the podium of [..]

The Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR-National Research Agency) has published the list of selected projects in the framework of the call for Research and teaching chairs in Artifical Intelligence (AI). Among the 40 chairs announced on December 12, four are within the scope of IRISA, one of the four is also co-funded by the Defense Innovation Agency (AID). These chairs are one of the flagship [..]