01/12/2024 Three members, Mathis D'Haene, Elisa Lannelongue and Albert Paik joined and Antonin Dallard defended this PhD thesis.
"A soft skin with self-decoupled three-axis force-sensing taxels" was published in the Nature Machine Intelligence.
"Sequential hierarchical least-squares programming for prioritized non-linear optimal control" was published in the Optimization Methods and Software.
Four papers were published in the RA-Letters.
Five papers were presented at the Humanoids2024.
  • Motion Accuracy and Computational Effort in QP-Based Robot Control
  • Lower Limbs 3D Joint Kinematics Estimation from Force Plates Data and Machine Learning
  • Tactile Sensor-Based Detection of Partial Foothold for Balance Control in Humanoid Robots
  • Measuring and Analyzing Human Wide-Area Contact Motion Using Tactile Sensors
  • Robust Humanoid Walking on Compliant and Uneven Terrain with Deep Reinforcement Learning
01/11/2024 Three members, Amneh Nasir, David Vázquez Leal, and Misaki Kikuchi joined and three members, Hugo Lefevre, Constantin Guillaume and Sinta Schulte finished their stays at the JRL.
Two papers were presented at the ICRA@40
Four papers were presented at the IROS 2024
01/10/2024 Five members, Abdelaziz Benallegue, Imane Taruf, Aymeric Cardot, Hélène Stefanell, and Shori Yada joined and five members, Malo Aymes, Gwendal Crequer, Matheus Paula, Kimbery Grace Sevillano C. and Damien Harlé finished their internships at the JRL.
01/09/2024 One member, Hugo Lefevre joined and three members, Mikael Arslan, Martin Soucail and Sirikorn Chalanunt finished their internships at the JRL in August.
"Assessing time series correlation significance: A parametric approach with application to physiological signals" was published in Biomedical Signal Processing and Control.
01/08/2024 One member, Thomas Duvinage joined and three members, Bruno Watier, Ocean Noel, and Marie Samson left the JRL in July.
"Humanoid Loco-Manipulations using Combined Fast Dense 3D Tracking and SLAM with Wide-Angle Depth-Images" was published in the IEEE T-ASE.
01/07/2024 Damien Harlé joined in June.
"A cross-temporal robotic dance performance: Dancing with a humanoid robot and artificial life" was presented at ISEA2024.
01/06/2024 Four members, Isaac Racine, Sinta Schulte, Pierre-Alexandre Leziart, and Constantin Guillaume joined and one member, Irene Frizza left the JRL in May.
"Dual-Hemispherical Photometric Visual Servoing" was published in the IEEE RA-L.
17/05/2024 25 JRL members participated in the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) and gave 15 presentations.
  • 2 regular articles (1,2)
  • 3 journal article presentations
  • 2 late breaking results poster presentations
  • 4 invited talks in workshops (3) and cluster forum (1)
  • 1 presentation in a workshop
  • 3 posters in workshops
24/10/2023 Philippe Coiffet, co-founder of the JRL and pioneer of French robotics, passed away on 20 October 2023. He will be dearly missed but his legacy will live on through the work he initiated. If you wish to honor his memory or express your condolences, a webpage has been setup on LIRMM website.
01/06/2023 The paper co-authored by Kenji Kaneko, Fumio Kanehiro, Shuuji Kajita, Hirohisa Hirukawa, Toshikazu Kawasaki, Masaru Hirata, Kazuhiko Akachi, Takakatsu Isozumi: Humanoid robot HRP-2 recevied IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Most Influential Paper Award.
07/12/2022 The paper co-authored by Leyuan Sun, Guanqun Ding, Yusuke Yoshiyasu, Fumio Kanehiro: CertainOdom: Uncertainty Weighted Multi-task Learning Model for LiDAR Odometry Estimation recevied the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO) Best Conference Paper Award.
29/11/2022 Irene Frizza recevied the 2022 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) Kanako Miura Award.
25/05/2022 Team Janus advances to the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals!
25/03/2022 A press release was issued regarding "Eliminating temporal illumination variations in whisk-broom hyperspectral imaging".
12/03/2022 RHP Friends, jointly developed with Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. was exhibited at the International Robot Exhibition.
01/03/2022 The Technical Committee on Model-Based Optimization for Robotics, co-chaired by Adrien Escande, received the RAS Most Active Technical Committee Award.
07/06/2021 Masato Tsuru has received the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Joint Chapter Young Award (ICRA2021).
02/06/2021 The paper co-authored by Shuuji Kajita, Fumio Kanehiro, Kenji Kaneko, Kiyoshi Fujiwara, Kensuke Harada, Kazuhito Yokoi, Hirohisa Hirukawa: Biped Walking Pattern Generation by using Preview Control of Zero-Moment Point recevied IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Most Influential Paper Award.
15/03/2021 Fumio Kanehiro was interviewed by XYZ.
12/03/2021 Daphné Héraïz-Bekkis was interviewed by French Embassy.
30/05/2020 The paper co-authored by Abderrahmane Kheddar, Stéphane Caron, Pierre Gergondet, Andrew Comport, Arnaud Tanguy, Christian Ott, Bernd Henze, George Mesesan, Johannes Englsberger, Máximo Roa, Pierre-Brice Wieber, François Chaumette, Fabien Spindler, Giuseppe Oriolo, Leonardo Lanari, Adrien Escande, Kévin Chappellet, Fumio Kanehiro, Patrice Rabate: Humanoid robots in aircraft manufacturing recevied the 2020 IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Best Paper Award.
01/04/2020 Ko Ayusawa has received the MEXT Award for Science and Technology for young scientists.
13/01/2020 The paper co-authored by Masato Tsuru, Pierre Gergondet, Tomohiro Motoda, Adrien Escande, Eiichi Yoshida, Ixchel G. Ramirez-Alpizar, Weiwei Wan, Kensuke Harada: POMDP-based action planning for the recognition of occluded objects with Humanoid robots received the 2020 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB) Young Author Award.