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01/05/2019 - An article in Ansa News about HRI² recent research on supernumerary limbs.

29/03/2019 - HRI² laboratory wins Solution Award 2019 (Premio Innovazione Robotica) at MECSPE, Italy's largest industrial fair.

10/02/2019 - Italy's prime minister, Prof. Conte visited us at the HRI² laboratory. We were excited to run very recent demos with our new intelligent cobot platform MOCA (MObile Collaborative robot Assistant)!.

2/02/2019 - RAI NEWS reports on the HRI² laboratory collaborative technologies. Watch the interview (from 6'43'').

19/01/2019 - Arash Ajoudani is a recipient of the Amazon Reserach Awards!

23/12/2018 - Italy's top-ranked TV channel ITALIA-1 interviews Arash Ajoudani about HRC and coolaborative robotics technologies of the HRI² laboratory: Click here to watch the interview!

5/12/2018 - Italy's former prime minister, Prof. Mario Monti, the European commission's ERC president, Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, and Confindustria president Dr. Vincenzo Boccia visited us at the HRI² laboratory over the past few days. We were excited to run very recent demos with our new intelligent cobot platform MOCA (MObile Collaborative robot Assistant)!.

8/11/2018 - Our paper "Shared-Autonomy Control for Intuitive Bimanual Tele-manipulation", by M. Laghi, M. Maimeri, M. Marchand, C. Leparoux, M. Catalano, A. Ajoudani, and A. Bicchi, was a best conference paper award finalist at Humanoids-2018.

The Italian national TV (RAI) has made a documentary about the HRI² laboratory. You can watch it here: http://www.raiscuola.rai.it/programma-unita/memex-doc-vita-da-ricercatore-pt-7-arash-ajoudani/322/42512/default.aspx

20/10/2018 - Our paper "A Supernumerary Soft RoboticHand-Arm System for Improving Worker Ergonomics" by A. Ciullo, M. Catalano, A. Bicchi, and A. Ajoudani, wins the best poster award of the Werob 2018 conference.

29/09/2018 - HRI² laboratory will present 3 papers at Humanoids 2018.

06/07/2018 - HRI² laboratory will present 6 papers at IROS 2018, and 2 papers at WeRob2018.

26/04/2018 - Team CoAware from IIT, coordinated by the HRI² laboratory wins the KUKA innovation award 2018! :https://www.kuka.com/en-de/technologies/research-and-innovation/kuka-innovation-award

07/11/2017 - Team HRI² will present three papers and will co-organise a workshop in Humanoids-2017:http://humanoids2017.loria.fr

Team HRI² demonstrated several live human-robot collaboration demos at an industrial meeting in Milan. See a video here: http://www.rds.it/rds-tv/video-news/bracci-meccanici-ed-esoscheletri-i-robot-al-servizio-del-lavoro/

17/10/2017 - Three papers from the HRI² laboratory will be presented at Humanoids 2017 in Birmingham (UK). We also co-oranise a workshop on Locomotion and Manipulation: Unifying Solutions Across Aerial and Terrestrial Regimes. http://humanoids2017.loria.fr/

01/10/2017 - Team Co-Aware coordinated by the HRI² laboratory is a finalist for the KUKA Innovation Award 2018. https://www.kuka.com/en-de/technologies/research-and-innovation/kuka-innovation-Award

23/09/2017 - Three papers from the HRI² laboratory will be presented at IROS 2017 in Canada. We also co-oranise a workshop on Learning for Collaborative Robotics: Enabling Flexible, Redeployable and Agile Industrial Applications.http://www.iros2017.org/

18/05/2017 - Three papers from the HRI² laboratory will be presented at ICORR 2017 http://www.icorr2017.org/

19/04/2017 - IROS2017 Workshop on “Learning for Collaborative Robotics: Enabling Flexible, Redeployable and Agile Industrial Applications”. To apepar soon!

19/12/2016 - ICRA2017 Workshop on “Assistive Robotics: From the Natural to the Artificial and Back Again”. Please see details

18/11/2016 - Our paper, “. Peternel, N. Tsagarakis, D. Caldwell and A. Ajoudani, "Adaptation of Robot Physical Behaviour to Human Fatigue in Human-Robot Co-Manipulation", was a finalist for best interactive paper award at IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids), 2016.

10/10/2016 – “IEEE IROS Workshop on Human-Robot Collaboration: Towards Co-Adaptive Learning Through Semi-Autonomy and Shared Control” http://www.ausy.tu-darmstadt.de/Workshops/IROS2016

29/09/2016 - International Workshop on Human Friendly Robotics (HFR) 2016. https://hfr2016.wordpress.com

16/05/2016 - IEEE ICRA 2016 Workshop on Human Robot Interfaces for Enhanced Physical Interactions. http://robotics.ozyegin.edu.tr/icra16workshop