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AI 2000 Robotics Most Influential Scholars IRISA is proud to announce that Paolo Robuffo Giordano, CNRS research director and head og the Rainbow researc team is one of the « AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars Honorable Mention » in the field of Robotics. In addition to this distinction, Paolo is the only researcher representing a French institute! Congratulations to Paolo Robuffo Giordano. Paolo [..]

This R&D success at Airbus Defence & Space is the culmination of many years of collaboration with two members of the RAINBOW team (formerly Lagadic): Éric Marchand (Professor at the University of Rennes 1) and François Chaumette (Research Director at Inria Rennes). To see the guidance of autonomous aerial vehicles become a reality, our researchers specializing in the localization of 3D objects and [..]

Digital for inclusiveness and home support For some elderly or handicapped people, the absence or loss of mobility, the limitation of exploration capacities, deprives them of autonomy and independence in daily or social activities. Although solutions exist in terms of support or technical aids, the prevention and preservation of independence, inclusiveness and home support has become a national [..]

In our digital world, information sciences play a leading role in a number of areas, particularly in the field of healthcare. To give just a few examples: Tomorrow's medicine will rely on data science to analyze masses of heterogeneous data on pathologies, patients, genomics, etc. in order to propose a personalized, preventive, predictive and participatory approach; Robotics becomes a precious [..]

Awards at the IEEE HAPTICS 2020 Conference Congratulations to Rahaf Rahal (PhD Student Université de Rennes 1, RAINBOW research team) Thomas Howard (post-doctoral CNRS, RAINBOW research team) Guillaume Gicquel (engineer, CNRS) Giulia Matarese (student M2, RAINBOW research team) Steeven Villa (student M2, RAINBOW research team) Xavier de Tinguy (PhD Student, INSA, HYBRID reseach team) Maud Marchal [..]

Congratulations to Fabien Spindler (Inria Engineer) and François Chaumette (Inria Research Director) of the Rainbow research team and the other members of the consortium of the H2020 Comanoid project coordinated by Abderrahmane Kheddar (CNRS Researcher at LIRMM), who received at ICRA 2020 conference the best paper 2019 award from IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine for the article : A. Kheddar [..]

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 [..]

It is with great sadness that we inform you that Christian Barillot passed away this Sunday, June 14. Research Director at CNRS, Christian was 60 years old. In addition to having been a leading international scientific personality, Christian played a major role at the CNRS where he has been, among other things, President of the Scientific Council of INS2I. He was also a figure within IRISA and the [..]