Congratulations to Fabien Spindler (Inria Engineer) andFrançois 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, S. Caron, P. Gergondet, A. Comport, A. Tanguy, C. Ott, B. Henze, G. Mesesan, J. Englsberger, M. Roa, P.-B. Wieber, F. Chaumette, F. Spindler, G. Oriolo, L. Lanari, A. Escande, K. Chappellet, F. Kanehiro, P. Rabate. Humanoid robots in aircraft manufacturing. IEEERobotics and Automation Magazine, 26(4):30-45, December 2019.
The authors have unanimously decided to donate the amount of their prize (1000 USD) to the association Doctors without Borders.
Congratulations to Alexandre Krupa (Inria Researcher) member of the Rainbow research team, who received a "Distinguished Service Award" as Associate Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters magazine.