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Open Semester/Master/Bachelor Projects

The Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) offers both semester and thesis projects for master students. The research topics and contents are essentially open to the students as long as they are challenging and within the scope of BIRL research. 

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Upcoming Events/Meetings/Talks/People

IEEE/RSJ IROS 2013 Workshop on Soft Technologies for Wearable Robots, 03/11/2013 or 07/11/2013, Tokyo, Japan

2013 International Workshop on Soft Robotics (SoftRobot2013), 14-19/07/2013, Monte Verita, Switzerland

ETH Distinguished Lecture in Robotics, Systems and Control

BiRoNZ: Bio-Robotics Network in Zurich

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News History

24.04.2013 Paper co-authored with Blumberg from University of Iowa has been accepted by Current Biology.

24.04.2013 Papers by Reis et al., Wang et al., and Leach et al. have been accepted by IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechtronics, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and  IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechtronics respectively.

26.08.2012 Fumiya's invited talk at EU Cog III

12.08.2012 Paper by Reis & Iida has been accepted by Artificial Life

14.07.2012 Fumiya Island in Robot Film Festival

01.07.2012 Dr. Hansruedi Frueh is coming to visit our lab

18./22.06.2012 2012 ETH Robotics Summer School on Soft Robotics

19.05.2012 Paper by Wang & Iida has been accepted by IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

18.05.2012 Robotic Body Extension on IEEE Spectrum's robotics blog and Popular Science website

02.05.2012 Our robots are introduced in archipelago.ch

02.04.2012 Welcome new member: Utku Culha

02.04.2012 Welcome new member: Surya Nurzaman

09.03.2012 Bironz meeting by Dr. Scaramuzza, and Dr. Jafari 12.15pm, HG D3.2

17.01.2012 Fumiya's invited talk at Harvard Bio-Inspired Engineering Symposium

01.01.2012 Welcome new member: Amir Jafari

16.12.2011 Robotics Seminar by Prof. Metta, and Prof. Schaal 15.15pm, ML E12

09.12.2011 Bironz meeting by Dr. Brandeli, and Prof. Sorkine 12.15pm, HG G5

11.11.2011 Bironz meeting by Dr. Roggen and Dr. Paradalier, 12.15pm, HG G5

07.11.2011 Seminar on Musculoskeletal humanoids by Prof. Nakanishi and Dr. Osada, 2.15pm, HG F26.1

14.10.2011 Bironz semester starts

19.09.2011 Fumiya's new lecture series "bio-inspired motor control"

16.09.2011 Prof. Fumiya Iida got accepted to serve as a program committee member of the International Program Committee (IPC) for the 10th IFAC Symposium on Robot Control (SYROCO 2012) in Dubrovnik, Croatia. SYROCO 2012.

12.09.2011 New member: Xiaoxiang Yu

12.09.2011 Fumiya's invited talk at the ICMC2011. 

30.07.2011 Fumiya's invited talk at the ICINCO2011. 

15.07.2011 Robotics summer school - Case study session at ETH Zurich.

22.06.2011 Marc's paper accepted for IROS2011.

16.06.2011 NCCR Robotics Symposium at ETH Zurich.

01.06.2011 Welcome new member: Luzius Brodbeck.

25.05.2011 BIRL on Bilan Magazine.

10.05.2011 Robot Mr. Ess. on NZZ Campus May Issue Page 50.

05.05.2011 Soft Robotics session at the fet11 conference.

22.04.2011 Murat's paper accepted for AIM2011.

13.04.2011 BIRL supports robotics researchers in Japan.

23.03.2011 Fumiya's invited talk at the Robolift11 conference. 

14.03.2011 PC Member of the International Workshop on Intelligent Robotics. 

09.03.2011 [Special Issue] on Bio-Inspired Robotics in Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics. 

04.03.2011 BiRoNZ-Meeting, 12.00-13.00, HG D 7.2.

13.02.2011 Special Issue on Soft Robotics in Advanced Robotics Journal. read more.

01.02.2011 Welcome new members: Hugo Marques (Postdoc), Derek Leach (PhD).

24.01.2011 New paper published in International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR).

20.01.2011 Invited for program committee member of European Conference of Artificial Life (ECAL2011). 

10.12.2010 Invited for program committee member of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO2011).

01.12.2010 NCCR Robotics launched successfully!

01.12.2010 ETHIIRA Grant Proposal on "Autonomous Robotic Growth with Thermoplastic Adhesive" was approved!

05.11.2010 BiRoNZ-Meeting, 12.00-13.00, HG D 1.2.

08.10.2010 BiRoNZ-Meeting, 12.00-13.00, HG E 5

21.09.2010 Lecture of Prof. Fumiya Iida, Bio-Inspired Motor Control, 9.00-12.00, HG E 22.

20.09.2010 New member: Kevin Frey, master student, semester project, leaving 20.12.2010.

07.09.2010 Talk of Dr. Takuya Hashimoto, visiting scientist, academic guest from Tokyo University of Science, Japan: Robot Technology for Supporting Human Activity, 12.15 - 13.00, LFO G 25.

01.09.2010 New members: Dr. Takuya Hashimoto, visiting scientist, academic guest from Tokyo University of Science, Japan, dept. of mech. eng., leaving 15.09.2010.

Marc Osswald, master student, master project, finishing 28 February 2011, and Juanjo Fernandez Bocanegra, Erasmus student, master project, finishing 28 February 2011.

24.08.2010 New member: Dr. Murat Reis, academic guest from University of Uludag, Engineering Faculty, Görükle-Bursa/ Turkey, research and teaching assistant in mech. eng., leaving 23.08.2011.

01.07.2010 New member: Burcu Karadeniz, guest student from University of Sabanci, Istanbul, Turkey, undergraduate student, finishing 31.08.2010

28.05.2010 Third BiRoNZ Meeting.

11.05.2010 New member: Fabian Müller, master student, semester project, finishing in October 2010.

10.05.2010 New members: Akshay Jain, guest student from India, finished in July 2010.

23.04.2010 Introduction Lecture of Prof. Dr. Fumiya Iida:
"Bio-Inspired Motor Control for Autonomous Robots"
23.04.2010, 17.15, HG F 30, for more details: ETHZ Veranstaltungskalender

16.04.2010 Second BiRoNZ Meeting.

15.04.2010 NCCR Robotics has been approved by the Swiss Government.

25.03.2010 Seminar Jonas Buchli: Robust Control Strategies for Locomotion and Manipulation through Compliance and Force Control. Speaker: Jonas Buchli. HG G 26.1, 3 pm.

05.03.2010 First BiRoNZ Meeting.

01.03.2010 New member: Fabian Günther, master student, semester project, finished in July 2010.

23.02.2010 New member: Cristian Montillo, master student, master degree project, finishing 30.08.2010.

27./28.01.2010 Poster Presentation on Cogsys 2010.

14.01.2010 SNF-JSPS Seminar proposal accepted.

04.01.2010 New members: Christina Lütolf-Aecherli, Pascal Wespe.

22.12.2009 Iida,Tedrake (2010) published in Autonomous Robots.

03.08.2009 BIRL Opening:
The Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory was started at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.