LASA

Current highlights

LASA teamed up with MIT press to publish a textbook presenting a wealth of machine learning techniques to make robot control more flexible and safer when interacting with humans.

The Swiss National Thematic Network (NTN) Innovation Booster Robotics, lead by Professor Aude Billard, is a program powered by the Swiss Innovation Agency, Innosuisse. Innovation Booster Robotics promotes knowledge transfer and sponsors co-operation with partners across robotics research labs and industry.
Research at LASA
Current project grants

Robetarme
Human-robot collaborative construction system for shotcrete

SAHR
ERC Advanced Grant: Skill acquisition in humans and robots (SAHR)

Hasler Stiftung
Four-arms manipulation and applications to surgery
EU I.AM Project
From pick-and-place to grab-and-toss
EU DARKO
Dynamic agile robots that learn and optimize operations
Past project grants

EU Crowdbot project
Safe navigation of robot in crowd

CHISTERA CORSMAL
Estimate the physical properties of objects for safe handover from / to humans

Swiss SNF – NCCR
Robotics National Center of Competence in Research

Secondhands
Creating a proactive robot assistant for maintenance tecnicians

EU CogIMon
A EU-funded research project for Cognitive Interactive Motion