There is a great excitement surrounding data-driven techniques for perceptual classification, inference, and motor control. These techniques come to robotic manipulation with the promise of enabling behavior with greater robustness, performance, andRead More…

Capturing Vivid 3D Models of the World from Video As humans we take the ability to perceive the dynamic world around us in three dimensions for granted. From an early age weRead More…

ArmarX – A Full Stack Robot Software Framework: From Real-Time Control to Symbolic Planning In recent years, very complex systems have emerged, above all in service robotics and in assistant robotics. DueRead More…

SecondHands will be attending Humanoids 2017 IEEE RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, November 15-17, 2017, Birmingham (UK). Project coordinator, Dr Graham Deacon, from Ocado, will be presenting at Human-Humanoid collaboration: the next industrialRead More…

The British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition Keynote speaker at the BMVA technical meeting: Dynamic Scene Reconstruction, Prof. Lourdes Agapito will present Capturing Vivid 3D Models of the World fromRead More…

Invited speaker at 3rd International Workshop On Recovering 6D Object Pose at ICCV 2017 Prof. Lourdes Agapito, University College London will be presenting the impressive achievements of the vision system for theRead More…

Congratulations to Prof. Aude Billard who has been awarded with an ERC Advanced Grant for her proposal entitled: Skill Acquisition in Humans and Robots. News and results from ERC: https://erc.europa.eu/news/erc-advanced-grants-540-million-euros-eu-231-senior-researchers List ofRead More…

The SecondHands EPFL team has released open source code for wrench decomposition and load share estimation during physical interaction. The repository can be found at https://github.com/epfl-lasa/load-share-estimation. This ROS package is used toRead More…

If you are interested in the SecondHands project, Ocado Technology is looking to expand its Robotics Research Team to include someone that is based in Hatfield, UK, but is happy to travelRead More…