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

Raptor-inspired drone with morphing wing and tail

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EPFL

EPFL engineers have developed a drone with a feathered wing and tail that give it unprecedented flight agility.

Variable Stiffness Actuator article featured in Editor's Choice

26.10.20NewsResearch

Article on dielectric actuator with variable stiffness featured as Editor’s Choice in the journal Advanced Intelligent Systems. Editors' Choice articles are handpicked by the editorial team of Advanced Intelligent Systems to showcase the very best that the journal has to offer. Read it in open access at https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202000069.

Variable-Stiffness Tensegrity Spine

05.05.20NewsResearch

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.

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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