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Laboratoire de systèmes robotiques LSRO
MINIATURE Mobile robots GROUP MOBOTS

Welcome to the MOBOTS group. Our main activity is system design for miniature autonomous mobile robots. This field includes a large spectrum of disciplines, spanning from Artificial Intelligence to mechatronics, from navigation techniques to digital electronics, from sensors to actuators technologies. Our research is based on strong competences in digital electronics and system integration.

Latest news

17'000 visitors came to our robotic festival this year.

April 20th, 2013: Our annual robotic festival attracted again the public on campus for its 6th edition. There is a nice video report on vimeo.
Francesco Mondada got the polysphère 2012 award.

October 6th, 2012: Each year the student association Agépoly gives an award, called Polysphère, for the best teacher of each school, nominated by the students. This year the award for the school of engineering went to Francesco Mondada.
We won the "Best Demonstration Award" at ECAI 2012.

September 1st, 2012: The demonstration "Lonley Builder - Autonomous Construction with a Mobile Robot in a Resource-limited Environment: a Demonstration of the Integration of Perception, Planning and Action" won the "Best Demonstration Award" at the ECAI 2012, the biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the leading conference on Artificial Intelligence in Europe.
We won the "Most Innovative Technology" award at the "Robot Film Festival" in New York

July 17th, 2012: The movie "swarmanoid - the movie", describing the result of the swarmanoid project, won the "Most Innovative Technology" award at the "Robot Film Festival" in New York. The foot-bot and hand-bot robots featured in this video were developed by our group.
Our vacuum cleaner test on TSR1

Jan 10th, 2012: Our test on vacuum cleaners and our work on robots for daily life has been featured in a TV broadcast called "A Bon Entendeur" and seen by 36.7% of the people looking at TV this evening. More than 350'000 people have seen at least a small part of the broadcast.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Dec 20th, 2011: Merry Christmas and a happy new year from our group!.
Crédit Suisse Award for Best Teaching 2011

Oct 15th, 2011: Francesco Mondada got the Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching.
CLAWAR Highly Commended award 2011

Sept 7th, 2011: Our paper at CLAWAR ("Tremo: an inspection climbing inchworm based on magnetic switchable device") got the Highly Commended award.
We won the AAAI-2011 Best Video Award

August 9th, 2011: Again (was the case already with the swarm-bots project) we won the AAAI-2011 Best Video Award with the movie "swarmanoid - the movie", describing the result of the swarmanoid project where we developed the foot-bot and hand-bot robots. See also the article on the NewScientist.