This website presents my current work on robot programming by demonstration, human-robot interaction and imitation learning. You can go to the research section for more information about my research or to the videos section to watch humanoid robots learning new skills by imitation.
News
June 16th, 2009
Here is my new website: http://programming-by-demonstration.org. Please update your bookmarks!
September 21st, 2008
There's a new video showing Salvador DaBot the portraitist robot here.
You can also look at its first masterpieces here.
September 13th, 2008
Salvador DaBot (The Mustachioed Portraitist Robot v2.0) is being presented at the Google Zeitgeist Partner Forum.
September 12th, 2008
Three awards notifications arriving nearly the same week!
I received the Robotdalen Scientific Award (
see the press release here
and the interview here)
and the ABB Award for my PhD thesis.
I also received a best paper award during Ro-Man'08 for my Ro-Man'07 paper.
Cloud created through recurrence analysis of the words in my thesis (from Wordle.net)
May 24th, 2008
Our team won the First Prize in the Human-Robot Interaction Challenge at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'2008), where the Chief Cook Robot finished ex aequo with its friend Keepon!
May 23th, 2008
The Chief Cook Robot has been blogged on Otherfarm, Communist Robot, Engadget, New Scientist blog, Make blog, Hack a day, Dvice, BotJunkie, Machines like us, Hacked Gadgets, Technovelgy, and InternetActu (in French).
May 5th, 2008
Three new videos have been uploaded:
- The Chief Cook Robot (learning to prepare a cheese'n'ham omelet)
- Teaching two industrial robotic arms through a flexible scaffolding process
- Learning of a collaborative manipulation skill with the HRP2 robot
May 2nd, 2008
The GMM-GMR sourcecode is now available in C/C++ (platform independent) on Sourceforge.
The Matlab GMM-GMR sourcode is also available on Matlab Central File Exchange.
February 27th, 2008
New paper accepted for a workshop on Social Interaction with Intelligent Indoor Robots at ICRA'2008.
February 7th, 2008
The "humanoid robot learning like a child" appeared in a New Scientist video.
December 29th, 2007
The "humanoid robot drawing portrait" has been featured on several technology/robots blogs such as Gizmodo, Technabob, Botjunkie, Engadget, Neatorama or Crunchgear.
The "humanoid robot learning like a child" also appeared on Botjunkie, Dvice and Hackedgadgets.
December 21th, 2007
A "humanoid robot finds learning childs play" article appeared in the Newscientist of this week.
December 12th, 2007
Research section updated.
September 23rd, 2007
New sourcecode available in the sourcecodes section.
August 7th, 2007
The list of my publications is available here (Please wait until the whole list is loaded).
August 7th, 2007
The website is online!