News

(06/2024) Congrats to Luca for his PhD award from the University of Strasbourg ! Well deserved !

(06/2024) Congrats to Guillaume for his paper accepted in MMT !

(04/2024) Our T-MRB and IJRR papers were recently accepted ! Congrats to Fernando and Matthias !

(06/2023) Congrats to Luca and Matthias who recently defended their thesis !

(03/2023) Many Videos, Codes, and Datasets accompanying papers were uploaded recently. Have a look at the Publications webpage for more details

(03/2023) No news from some time here. Congrats to Guiqiu, Sujit and Jorge for the recent successful PhD defenses and papers accepted in IEEE Sensors, IEEE TBME, JOM. Congrats also to Luca and Matthias for papers accepted in Medical Image Analysis and IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

(06/2022) I will be talking about vision-based autonomous intraluminal navigation at the  Autonomy and shared autonomy in endoluminal approaches for soft surgical robots workshop at the Hamlyn Symposium on June 29, 2022. 

(05/2022) ICRA2022 was very interesting ! Our workshop on Debates on the future of robotics research will be online shortly.

(01/2022) Congrats to Guiqui for his paper accepted to Medical Image Analysis !

(08/2021) The recording of our Autonomous Intraluminal Navigation at the Hamlyn Symposium is available online ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u0ZKITBR-8 

(07/2021) I have been elected to the Section 7 of the COmité National de la Recherche Scientifique. 

(06/2021) Congrats to Guiqiu and Zhongkai for papers respectively accepted to IEEE T-MRB and IEEE RAL ! 

(05/2021) Our workshop proposal (with Emmanuel Vander Poorten and Paul Breedveld) for the Hamlyn Symposium, on Autonomous Intraluminal Navigation, was accepted ! More details and registration info on this page : https://hamlynsymposium.org/events/autonomous-intraluminal-navigation/

(05/2021) Zhongkai's paper on a novel control algorithm for OCT-based control of an endoscopic robot was accepted in RAL ! 

(04/2021) I am still looking for an excellent candidate for a PhD thesis on the MACROS project (see this page for details on the project). Candidates with a background in Robotics,Mechanical Engineering, or Computer Science, and strong analytical skills are welcome ! 

(03/2021) Jorge's paper on Spation-temporal ensemble models for tissue segmentation was accepted for publication in IJCARS ! 

(02/2021) Our paper on Self-Supervised pose estimation for continuum robots was accepted for publication in RAL. Congrats to Luca Sestini ! 

(06/2020) Our paper about Vision-based bakclash estimation was accepted for publication in RAL. Congrats to Thibault Poignonec !

(01/2020) All positions in the ATLAS project are now filled ! Wishing all the best to all the non-successful applicants ! 

(04/25/2019) Our Science Robotics paper is out ! Here is a video from Channel7, Boston

(02/13/2019) Second round of applications for ATLAS is coming up ! Look for ESR6, 8, and 14 are with us, don't hesitate to contact us if you have questions ! https://atlas-itn.eu/

(01/31/2019) Congrats to Cristian Rocha for his paper accepted for ICRA 2019 !

(10/17/2018) We're looking for a talented Master Student to work on continuum robots compliance modeling (6-months internships) [Position filled]

(10/03/2018) The website for our European ITN project ATLAS is up and running ! Applications for PhD vacancies will soon open ! https://atlas-itn.eu/

(07/18/2018) I just received good news about grants being funded ! Stay tuned for PhD opportunities on continuum robot control !

(05/23/2018) Applications closed for the PhD opportunity. Thanks to all candidates who applied for their interest !

(02/02/2018) PhD position opportunity in planning and control for continuum robots in deformable environments.