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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| Nov 13, 2024 |
Dag van de Wetenschap 2024
AIRO is presenting at the Dag van de Wetenschap 2024 (Day of Science), an annual event organised across Flanders during which science and technology is celebrated with hands-on activities, demonstration, lab visits and lectures. |
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| Oct 25, 2024 |
Best paper award at ICSR2024
Qiaoqiao Ren wins best paper award at the International Conference on Social Robotics |
| 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. |
| 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. |