AIRO IDLab Ghent University - imec
AIRO is a research team part of the research group IDLab. Our team is led by Prof. Joni Dambre, Prof. Francis wyffels, and Prof. Tony Belpaeme. Together with our team of researchers and students, we work on interdisciplinary research in the fields of AI and Robotics, ranging from social robotics to fringe machine learning. The lab has vast experience with neural networks and ended up several times as a winning team in international Kaggle competitions on image recognition. Get a full overview of the fundamental and applied research problems we tackle on the research page.
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| Oct 6, 2024 |
Introducing MOBI - A Mobile Butler for Improved Elderly Care
Healthcare personnel spend significant time and effort on repetitive tasks that imply physical labor. This leaves them with less time for social interaction with residents of, for example, elderly care homes. |
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| Sep 29, 2024 |
IDLab-AIRO students awarded for exceptional achievements
We are thrilled to congratulate Matthias Pex, Louis Adriaens and Ward Goossens, for each being awarded a prestigious prize at their graduation! |
| Sep 15, 2024 |
Dwengo Social Robot Competition
IDLab - AIRO is a proud partner in the social robot competition for secondary schools organized by Dwengo. In this competition students ages 12 to 16 take on the challenge to solve a societally relevant problem using a social robot. The competition is supported by the excellence fund of the Flemish ministry of education. |
| May 25, 2024 |
Four IEEE RA-L papers in the last year
At AIRO we published four IEEE RA-L papers in the last 12 months! While IEEE RA-L doesn’t have the highest impact factor, it is a well-received journal in the robotics and automation community. The publication of four papers in RA-L is a confirmation of our research efforts in the domain of robotics and AI. |
| May 22, 2024 |
Manipulating Challenging Objects with Collaborative Robots
The imec 40 year anniversary celebration ITF World event is a conference that brings more than 2000 technology experts together. We were present with our work on robotic manipulation of challenging objects in the context of a biotechnology lab. |