RomandicWe are co-organizing the “5th workshop on RObotic MAnipulation of Deformable Objects: holistic approaches and challenges forward” in the scope of IROS 2025.
The workshop will be held on Monday morning, October 20, 2025 in Hangzhou, China, in the scope of IROS 2025!
We welcome submission of extended abstracts by September 20, 2025! See Call For Abstracts for details.
Colleagues from CSIC, specifically Franco Coltaro, presented their cloth simulator, developed within the Clothilde project, called the Clothilde simulator, see here and here.
In this online tutorial the simulator itself, its properties, and the usage were presented, followed by an extensive debate.
Thanks Franco!
A workshop on the topic of the organization an help of project offices in order to support researchers was held in Sitges, Barcelona, on June 12th and 13th. In two days of discussions and presentations partners from JSI, CSIC and KIT presented their project offices.
The participation of people from the project offices is what made this event special, as hands-on experience and organizational structures, ideas, gender aspect and outlooks were shared by the people really working in these fields.
Thanks to CSIC for the great organization and an insightful event in a very picturesque location!
We presented our work to a delegation from the German federal state Baden-Württemberg, led by Dr Patric Rapp, its State Secretary at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Tourism. Besides other demos, we showed the textile handling demo.
Photo credit: Marjan Verč, IJS.
We showcased our work at the 2025 JSI open door day! Many visitors got to see our unfolding demo.
Check our project Romandic on Linkedin.
Our robot textile manipulation cell for autonomous textile stretching was at the core of the SRIPTOP‘s booth at the IFAM fair in Ljubljana, from Feb. 11th-13th 2025. The cell reliably performed autonomous textile stretching over the course of the whole fair and garnered considerable interest from the visitors.
Our webpage went online January 7th, 2025.
