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Open House at Jožef Stefan Institute

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The Jožef Stefan Institute Open House is intended for the general public, when JSI welcomes all who are interested in basic and applied research conducted at the institute. The Open House 2024 took place on March 23rd. The ReconCycle workcell for the dismantling of electronic devices was among the exhibits presented to the public. Several hundred visitors came to see the cell and receive further information about the importance of robotics for the recycling of electronic devices.

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ReconCycle at IFAM 2024

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The 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.

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President of Slovenia visited ReconCycle demonstrator at JSI

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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.

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qbrobotics grippers at ICRA 2023

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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.

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Plenary of Antonio Bicchi at ICRA 2022

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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.

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ReconCycle presented at ERF 2020

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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.

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ReconCycle Kickoff Meeting

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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.