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20 December 2022
Joost de Winter appointed Professor of Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction
De Winter’s research focuses on touchless interaction between robots and humans so that in the future, robots can read and understand the intentions and instructions of humans in their vicinity by means of eye-tracking and other sensors. And robots, in turn, will be able to adapt their functioning to communicate their own intentions both to nearby humans and other robots. The vision is to contribute to a future in which humans and robots share cognitive processes and adapt to each other.
14 November 2022
Can robots invent tools like our ancient ancestors did?
How did ancient humans learn to make tools? And can we apply that knowledge to help AI-based robots learn creative skills? Carlos Hernandez Corbato and Geeske Langejans are heading up the TU Delft part of the multi-national METATOOL project, which is a unique combination of archaeology, neuroscience and robotics.
31 October 2022
David Abbink in various media
30 September 2022
Drivers of automated vehicles are blamed for crashes that they cannot reasonably avoid
12 September 2022
Riender Happee appointed Professor in Motion Comfort in Automated Driving
Riender Happee has been appointed Professor in Motion Comfort in Automated Driving at the department of Cognitive Robotics, section Intelligent Vehicles. Happee’s research focuses on motion perception and motion comfort as key factors in the acceptance of vehicle automation.
05 July 2022
Three Vidi’s for faculty 3mE
The Dutch Research Council has awarded 101 experienced researchers a Vidi grant worth 800,000 euros. Eight Vidis go to top researchers from Delft, of which no fewer than three researchers work at the 3mE faculty: Michael Wiertlewski, Willem Haverkort and Kim Batselier. The grant enables them to develop their own innovative line of research and set up their own research group in the coming five years.
28 June 2022
The first Robotics Engineer graduated cum laude!
16 June 2022
Michaël Wiertlewski in various media
25 May 2022
Laurence Willemet wins the Best Thesis Award from the Eurohaptics Society
11 April 2022
Feeling things by touching the screen of your smartphone
Imagine you could feel the brush strokes of Van Gogh, the fur of your beloved pet on a zoom call, fabrics in online shopping or tissues in medical images. Yasemin Vardar, assistant professor at the department of Cognitive Robotics (CoR), wants to enable this breakthrough by developing friction-modulation haptic displays. This week she received Veni funding from NWO for her research idea.