Categories
News

ReconCycle Summer School 2023 in Mallorca

Adaptive Intelligent Robots with Soft Hands: Methods and Experiments

The goal of this summer school is to transfer advanced robotics and computer vision knowledge to graduate students and younger postdocs with a focus on modern adaptive methods. These methods will be from AI (network learning), but also from different fields of robotics including adaptive control as well as the introduction of modern, highly adaptive robotic hands to teach participants about the mechanical as well as control- and cognitive-related power of adaptation in computer vision and robotics. 

As target application two talks from expert from the recycling industry will be incorporated into this school, which is a field where adaptive methods are highly needed for advanced “green” automation. 

The format of this school will be lectures by experts and discussion as well as experimental work, where one day during this school students will perform experiments on a set of computer vision as well as robotics platforms. We also include a poster session and 11 student talks, selected on the grounds of their abstract (to be submitted on registration), where students can present their work, too.

Join us for ReconCycle Summer School 2023 in Mallorca, October 23-26!

You can register here: ReconCycle Summer School 2023
For additional information contact us on: summer2023.reconcycle@uni-goettingen.de

Categories
News

President of Slovenia visited ReconCycle demonstrator at JSI

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.

Categories
News

qbrobotics grippers at ICRA 2023

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.

Categories
News

ReconCycle at MECSPE 2023

The ReconCycle partner, qbrobotics, has developed an application that allows one qb SoftClaw and one qb SoftHand2 Research to work together in disassembling certain electronic components.

Industrial development of this application will be presented in booth F45, Hall 30 at MECSPE 2023, the international reference fair for the Manufacturing industry, which will be held March 29-31, 2023 at BolognaFiere in Bologna, Italy.

No sensors or vision systems were required to perform this task, only the mechanical intelligence of the device.
Categories
News

Collaboration of ReconCycle and Trinity projects at ERF 2023

European Robotics Forum (ERF 2023) was held in Odense, Denmark from March 14th to 16th 2023.

At the conference, the Trinity project organized a workshop entitled “Feasibility Of Agile Manufacturing, What Really Moves SMEs“. The coordinator of the ReconCycle project Aleš Ude presented the results of ReconCycle at the workshop.

Categories
News

IFAM 2023

The results of the project Reconcycle, regarding the reconfiguration of recyclicng workcells, will be presented at Trade fair for automation, mechatronics, sensor technology, measurement technologies (IFAM 2023), Ljubljana, Slovenia from March 7th to March 9th 2023.

ReconCycle at IFAM 2023, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Categories
News

AI.Society Booth at Automatica 2022

The approach developed during in Reconcycle project were illustrated in Automatica fair in Munich. This was presented in AI.Society booth  at the premises of Messe München from June 21-24, 2022. were our institute, MIRMI/TUM illustrated the inspiring vision of tomorrow’s society and its intelligent machines, along with the future of Health, Work, Mobility and Environment by showing visible, touchable and presentable projects.

Categories
News

Plenary of Antonio Bicchi at ICRA 2022

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.

Categories
News

ReconCycle presented at ERF 2020

The coordinator of ReconCycle Aleš Ude presented the project in the session “New H2020 Projects”, which was held at the European Robotics Forum in Malaga, Spain, on March 5th, 2020.

The presentation is available here.

Categories
News

ReconCycle Kickoff Meeting

Kickoff Meeting of Reconcycle in Ljubljana

ReconCycle is one of the four research and innovation actions that were selected for funding in H2020 call “ICT-09-2019-2020”, Robotics in Application Areas. The project’s kickoff meeting was held at Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from February 13th – 14th, 2020. At the meetings the partners were focusing on the establishment of the initial experimental environment and on the main research issues that need to be addressed in the project to implement the recycling cell prototype.