CONTACT

Prof. Aude Billard
LASA Laboratory

EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

EPFL-STI-I2S-LASA, Station 9
CH 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

Tel: (+41) 21 693 5464
Fax: (+41) 21 693 78 50

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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

[March 2011] The LASA organizes the 6th Int. Conf. on Human-Robot Interaction 2011: HRI'2011

[10-14 May 2010] Workshop on Agents Learning Interactively from Human Teachers at AAMAS'2010

[3-8 May 2010] Tutorial on Learning from Demonstration at ICRA'2010

[2-5 March 2010] HRI 2010.

[19 October 2009]
LASA members carve pumpkins for Halloween!

[30 September 2009]
The iCub is calling the LASA home!

[30 April 2009] Elena Gribovskaya receives the best poster award during the EPFL's research day 2009 in the category Humanoids and Articulated Robotics.

[1-3 August 2008] Best Paper Award - 17th IEEE Int. Symp. ROMAN'08 - for Calinon & Billard's ROMAN'2007 paper

[8 December 2008] Sylvain Calinon receives the RobotDalen prize for his PhD thesis.

[5 June 2008] Biljana Petreska receives the Best Student Paper Award at the Int. Joint Conf. on Neural Networks (IJCNN'08) .

[1 July 2008] Sylvain Calinon receives the ABB prize for his PhD thesis.

[20-22 May 2008] The LASA won the 1st place at the ICRA'08 Human-Robot Interaction Challenge.

[22 May 2008] ICRA'08 robot comics contest.

[28 April 2008] The HOAP-3 robot cooks an omelet on YouTube.

[26 April 2008] EPFL Open Day on Autism Research

[21-25 Jan. 2008]The LASA hosted the Cogniron Winter School on Human-Robot Interaction.

[20 Dec. 2007](New Scientist, UK) Humanoid robot finds learning child's play.

[16 Nov. 2007] Basilio Noris receives the Best Paper Distinction at the CORES conference

[7 Nov. 2007] (Vivre ensemble) TACT project, Wearcam. A camera to detect autism

[7 Oct. 2007] (Le Matin Dimanche) TACT project, Wearcam. Révolutionnaire: l'EPFL crée une caméra qui dépiste l'autisme

[20 march 2007] (Le Temps) TACT project, Wearcam. Une caméra qui dépiste l'autisme

[1 Feb. 2007] NOUVO TV Show, Autisme, la preuve par l'image

LASA HOME

Welcome to the official website of the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory, or (in French) the Laboratoire d'Algorithmes et Systemes d'Apprentissage (LASA) .

Fields covered at LASA include: Learning and Dynamical Systems, Neural Computation and Modeling, Human-Machine Interaction, Humanoids Robotics, Mechatronics, Design of Therapeutic and Educational Devices.

LASA participates in the following international scientific consortiums:

On-going:

FIRST-MM (STREP)
AMARSI (IP)
ROBOSKIN (STREP)
FEELIX-GROWING (STREP)
Swiss National Center of Competence in Research: IM2
EPFL Robotics Center

Past:

ROBOT-CUB (IP, 2004-2010)
ROBOT@CWE (STREP, 2007-2009)
TACT (NEST, 2006-2008)
COGNIRON (IP, 2004-2008)