Robert Katzschmann
@katzschmann
Assistant Professor of Robotics, ETH | Core Faculty ETH AI Center | Co-founder Mimic Robotics | MIT PhD '18
Hosting Kaitlyn Becker (MIT) for an in-person talk: “Desktop to Deep Sea: Mechanical Programming of Soft Machines”. She’ll dive into rigid design tools shaping soft robots that bend, stretch, and adapt 🌊🤖 📍HG E 41, ETH Zentrum 🔗 Details: robotics-talks.com…
A lecturer at Kyoto University is building the ORCA hand, he says it’s well designed, we are flattered! orcahand.com
ETHZのSoft Robotics Labが最近出したオープンソースのOrca Hand orcahand.com を組んでみてるけど、ここまでは思ったより組立しやすくてさすがよくできてるなぁ
Happy to announce mimic-one: a Scalable Model Recipe for General Purpose Robot Dexterity, the culmination of years of research work in dexterous manipulation with imitation learning.
mimic builds on top of years of research in end-to-end models for dexterous manipulation. Today, we’re proud to publish mimic-one, outlining the foundations of our autonomous stack. Check out the paper:
Happy to announce mimic-one: a Scalable Model Recipe for General Purpose Robot Dexterity, the culmination of years of research work in dexterous manipulation with imitation learning.
Join us May 26, 16:15–17:30 in GLC E 29.2 @ETH for a talk by Prof. Selman Sakar (@EPFL) on harnessing mechanobiology to engineer connective tissues. Learn how robotic microsurgery, microtech & modeling enable biomimetic tissue self-assembly. #ETHZurich #Mechanobiology
Looking forward to give a keynote tomorrow at #ICRA2025 on creating life-like robots based on musculoskeletal designs and living biohybrid technologies. Join me for the Soft Robotics Keynote Session in the Sidney Marcus Auditorium in Atlanta on Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 8:30am…
Join us on Friday, May 23, at 4:00 pm CET, for a talk by Prof. Dr. Cynthia Sung on Salp-Inspired Approach to Underwater Multi-Robot Locomotion as part of our Robotics, Vision, and Controls Talks series! Zoom: ethz.zoom.us/j/63716670526 More talks: robotics-talks.com
Join us on Wednesday, May 21, at 4 pm CEST, for a talk by @HildeKuehne on Advances in self-supervised multimodal learning as part of our talk series! Zoom: ethz.zoom.us/j/63716670526S……: More talks robotics-talks.com
Join us today, Wednesday, at 4 pm CEST, for a talk by @LingjieLiu1 on Towards Next-Gen 3D Reconstruction and Generation: From Visual Fidelity to Multimodal and Physical Understanding as part of our talk series! Zoom: ethz.zoom.us/j/63716670526S…: More talks robotics-talks.com
Join us tomorrow, Friday, at 4 pm CET, for a talk by @xiaolonw @UCSanDiego on Modeling Humans for Humanoid Robots as part of our talk series! Zoom: ethz.zoom.us/j/63716670526 Schedule: robotics-talks.com
Join us on Wed, 12 pm CET, for a talk by @pulkitology @MIT_CSAIL @MIT on Pathway to Robotic Intelligence as a part of our talk series! The talk will be @ETH_en in person! Place: HG F 26.5 Zoom: ethz.zoom.us/j/63716670526 Schedule: robotics-talks.com
We’re excited to host Pulkit Agrawal (@pulkitology) from #MIT tomorrow at #ETHZurich for an in-person talk titled “Pathway to Robotic Intelligence.” 🗓 Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 🕛 Time: 12:00 CEST (UTC+2) 📍 Location: ETH Zurich, HG F 26.5 (Main Building) 🔗 Details:…
Join us this Friday (Feb. 28), 4 pm CET, for a talk by Kevin Chen (MIT) on insect-scale aerial robots driven by soft artificial muscles as a part of our MaP Robotics, Vision, and Control Talks! Zoom link: ethz.zoom.us/j/63716670526 Details & Full Schedule: robotics-talks.com
Join us today for the first talk in this semester's Robotics, Vision, and Controls Talk series at ETH Zurich. Angela Dai @angelaqdai kicks it off; you can join in person or via Zoom. Details: robotics-talks.com
Excited to give two seminars today on life-like musculoskeletal robotics! 🕥 11:30 AM at @imperialcollege 🕓 4:00 PM at @ucl Thanks to hosts @thrishlab and @H_Wurdemann. Looking forward to the discussions! #MusculoskeletalRobotics #BiohybridRobots #SoftRobotics
I am looking forward to the visit at @ucl tomorrow. Thanks @H_Wurdemann for hosting me. If you are interested to hear about Musculoskeletal robots, please join for my talk at 4pm.
Prof. @katzschmann @ETH will visit @UCL @uclmecheng @SoftHaptics on 26 Nov 2024 @ 4pm - we are excited about his @IETrobotics/@uclrobotics talk on "Can robots based on musculoskeletal designs better interact with the world?" Book your ticket on eventbrite.co.uk/e/can-robots-b…
Researchers have unveiled a robotic leg powered by artificial muscles that can navigate diverse terrains with ease and efficiency
Excited to see our work on the PELE leg featured by @Reuters! They ask "What if robots had artificial muscles?" 🤖💪 Check out their video: youtube.com/watch?v=CAQw0h… Here is our paper in @NatureComms : doi.org/10.1038/s41467… #ArtificialMuscles #MusculoskeletalRobots #ETHZurich
Join us today from 1-3 pm at HG E3 at ETH Zurich for lectures by Ellen Roche (MIT) & Kit Parker (Harvard). Ellen: "Recapitulating Cardiac Biomechanics with Hybrid Hearts", Kit: "Building Muscular Pumps: How Nature Does It, How We Do It" @ellentroche @Kkitparker @srl_ethz @ETH
How can artificial muscles transform robotics? Our new paper in Nature Communications introduces a robotic leg powered by artificial muscles, enabling jumps, adaptability, and energy efficiency. Read more: doi.org/10.1038/s41467… #Robotics #ArtificialMuscles #Research #ETHZurich
🚀 Apply for a PhD position in Musculoskeletal Robotics! Join us to work with electrohydraulic muscles to create dexterous hands and legged robotic systems. 📝 Apply via ETH's job site: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_… #jobs #ethzurich #robotics #softrobotics #musculoskeletalrobots