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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

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.
Our robotic festival attracted 13'000 visitors!

May 7th, 2011: For the 4th consecutive year we organized the EPFL robotic festival, this time with the official support of the NCCR robotics. The main attractions were the iCub, well know humanoid robot, and a small insect-like toy called "Superpattt", distributed for free to 5'000 participants. Some reports in the news: 20min video TSR 24heures leMatin
Our vision of robjects convinced the Innorobo audience

Mar 30th, 2011: The audience of the Innorobo conference seemed convinced of the arguments of Francesco Mondada, arguing for the embodiment of robotics into objects, more than in humanoid bodies, as described in WIRED. This research direction is the topic of the project "robots for daily life" of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research in Robotics.
Innovation award 2010

Sept 1st, 2010: Our paper at CLAWAR ("Cy-mag^3D: a simple and miniature climbing robot with advance mobility in ferromagnetic environment") got the best paper award "innovation award 2010 - for practical innovation in the field of robotics".