Laboratory of Intelligent Systems

The Laboratory of Intelligent Systems directed by Prof. Dario Floreano investigates the future of artificial intelligence and robotics at the convergence of biology and engineering, humans and machines.

Our fields of activity span:

Aerial Robotics

We take inspiration from nature and study, design, and control of agile aerial robots with rich sensory and motor abilities that can move and work in very different environments

Wearable Robotics

We investigate and develop novel soft wearable robots for natural interactions and symbiosis between humans and robots.

Soft Robotics

We are interested in the study, design, and control of soft robotic technologies that amplify the sensory-motor capabilities and human interaction of robots without increasing their complexity and weight.

Completed Projects

THE LATEST NEWS

Biological (left) and robotic (right) spines © 2020 EPFL

Variable-Stiffness Tensegrity Spine

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Research

A novel robotic spine can transition from compliant to stiff mode and back. The artificial spine consists of a variable-stiffness tensegrity design inspired by the vertebrate spine and could be used as the backbone of safe robotic manipulators, or agile and strong robots.

Stefano Mintchev appointed at ETHZ

25.03.20NewsEPFL

Stefano Mintchev has been appointed Assistant Professor in Environmental Robotics at ETH Zurich, starting from 1 April.

Highly cited work on ultrastretchable strain sensors

03.02.20NewsEPFL

Our paper on ultrastretchable strain sensors published in 2017 awarded by Wiley journal Advanced Materials Technologies as “one of the top-cited articles in recent publication history”: read it in open access at https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.201700284.

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Contact

Head of Lab: Prof. Dario Floreano

Administrator: Michelle Wälti
41 21 693 59 66

Address: LIS-IMT-STI, Room MED1 1126
Station 9, EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland