ReconCycleThe results of the project, regarding the automatic disassembly of smoke detectors, were presented at the trade fair for automation, mechatronics, sensor technology, and measurement technologies (IFAM 2024) in Ljubljana, Slovenia from February 13th–15th 2024.
On June 2nd, 2023, the president of Slovenia, Nataša Pirc Musar, paid a visit to JSI. The director of the institute, along with his colleagues, provided her with an overview of the institute’s organization and activities, as well as current events both within the institute and in the broader scientific community. They talked about developments in the field of robotics, artificial intelligence, physics, biochemistry and environmental sciences. The president also visited the Department of Automatics, Biocybernetics, and Robotics, where we had the opportunity to showcase the ReconCycle project and the ReconCycle workcell in more detail. During the visit, we provided a demonstration of a simplified disassembly use case, illustrating the innovative technologies and processes employed in the project.
ICRA 2023 was held from May 29th – June 2nd in the International Convention Centre (ICC) of ExCeL, London, UK. In the conference exhibition area, qbrobotics showed the grasping and manipulation versatility of qb SoftHand 2 Reserch and the integration of sensing capabilities on the Variable Stiffness Gripper. Both devices were in part developed in ReconCycle project.
The head of IIT research team in ReconCycle Antonio Bicchi was a plenary speaker at ICRA 2022, which was held in Philadelphia, USA. In his talk prof. Bicchi discussed embodied intelligence as determined and anticipated by the physics of the body which mediates our interaction with the world. He explained how artificial hands and haptics, prostheses and avatars can be conceived and realized to better serve humans in different environments. His presentation included the results from several projects including ReconCycle.
