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Thank you for joining us at #ICRA2024! Record number of people and robots. Amazing talks, workshops, competitions, exhibits, and socials. Clearly we embraced the Connect+ theme! See you in Atlanta for #ICRA2025 - more on this channel soon. Safe travels!

The full results of the #ICRA2024 are now published on airo.ugent.be/cloth_competit… Now heading back to Belgium where MathieuDeCoster and Andreas Verleysen are preparing the imec in Vlaanderen ITF robot wetlab demo we will show next week

Don't you want to know more about the perception algorithms behind the IEEE ICRA Cloth Manipulation Competition? We compiled interviews of all teams, watch the playlist at youtube.com/watch?v=716P6z…

Belgen organiseren wedstrijd 'was ontvouwen voor robots' in Japan: "Moeilijkste stap in het vouwproces" vrtnws.be/p.mRbGeXOvv?t=… #vrtnws

After #ICRA2024, we are ready to demonstrate our tactile sensor tech and #AI for robot helpers in wet labs at #ITFWorld2024 imec Together with BruBotics VUB we IDLab have a huge robotics booth 🤖 🤖 Andreas Verleysen

Last day at #ITFworld2024 joint demo stand of IDLab and BruBotics VUB on multi-sensor concepts for obstacle detection, tactile sensor for transparent objects, self-healing and self-closing suction cups for gripping, indoor localization technology etc. imec in Vlaanderen

Super excited to share our latest work: predicting which phages will interact with Klebsiella bacteria at the strain level, today in Nature Communications! Full paper here rdcu.be/dIGLS, blogpost here go.nature.com/4bCMYAH and thread below 🧵 (1/4)

Our wetlab assistant robot was a success! youtu.be/ThvECQgYLqQ?fe… We took the opportunity explaining to many visitors, including Jan Jambon, how we make collaborative robots smarter by integrating custom sensors and AI. IDLab imec Faculty of Engineering and Architecture UGent

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Two imec videos in Video Friday. ICRA cloth manipulation contest of Francis wyffels and our robotic skin-interface from SOPHIA EU Project project.

Als kind hoorde ik nooit dat ik 'oké' was. Dat queer zijn oké is. Niet thuis. Niet op school. Het had kinderen zoals ik jaren mentale pijn bespaard mocht dit op school bespreekbaar geweest zijn. Mocht het een safe space geweest zijn. Ja er is beterschap, maar de weg is nog lang.

Efkes ChatGPT je verkiezingstoespraak laten herschrijven omdat het resultaat anders was dan je het gehoopt #kies24

The Indy Autonomous car is getting faster and faster up the #FOS Hill. It's quite amazing to see a completely driverless racing car. Indy Autonomous Challenge

Dank aan vrijwilligers IDLab Faculty of Engineering and Architecture UGent #AIRO en @POV_onderwijs om op zondag de ‘Sociale robots’-kits samen te stellen voor wedstrijd #Excellentiefonds @onderwijs_vl dwengo.org/socialerobotwe…

Samen met Francis wyffels in De Standaard Standaard rond de opgang van de humanoide robots standaard.be/cnt/dmf2025031…

Humanoïde robots, zijn hot. Tientallen bedrijven werken aan betaalbare robots die zich nuttig kunnen maken. Loopt het zo'n vaart ,en wat zijn de obstakels? Bram Vanderborght (VUB/imec) en Francis wyffels (UGent/imec) geven tekst en uitleg. standaard.be/cnt/dmf2025031…

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2504.13711 We will also present this at the #ICRA2025 RoboAccoustics workshop. Come talk to us if you are interested! Work done under supervision of Francis wyffels at IDLab

Our university has decided to elect Petra De Sutter as the new chancellor. I wish her and Herwig Reynaert the best of luck. On the other hand, I would like to thank Rik Van de Walle and Mieke Van Herreweghe for their hard work in modernizing UGent over the last eight years.

Very glad to share our recent interdisciplinary work, which was published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface: "Evolutionary adaptations of the seahorse tail: investigating muscle architecture through in-silico modelling and robotics" royalsociety.org/blog/2025/05/e…

I will be presenting our work on using text-to-image diffusion models for synthetic data generation at the #CVPR2025 syndata4CV workshop later today Feel free to come to our poster if you want to chat about synthetic data! ( poster #229, 1 pm)