A four-legged robot trained with machine learning by EPFL researchers has learned to avoid falls by spontaneously switching between walking, trotting, and pronking – a milestone for roboticists as well as biologists interested in animal locomotion.

The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of professors at EPFL, including three in the School of Engineering (STI).

Professor Aude Billard, who heads EPFL’s Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA) within the Institutes of Electrical & Micro Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, and serves as the Associated Dean for Education at the School of Engineering, has been appointed as the President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS…

Dimitris Kiritsis, Professor Emeritus of Information and Telecommunication Technology for Sustainable Manufacturing at EPFL, points out the power of shared language around data technologies for agile and resilient operations.

EPFL spin-off Elythor has developed a new drone whose wing shape can adapt to wind conditions and flight position in real time, reducing the drone’s energy consumption, in collaboration with the School of Engineering’s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems. The position of the drone’s wings can change, allowing it to fly vertically or ho…

On the occasion of the 10^th anniversary of the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab, a demonstration of daily-use devices showcased director Jamie Paik’s vision – now a reality – for a new category of versatile robots.