Winter School 2026

Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, February 9th – 13th

We are organizing a winter school on Robot handling of deformable objects, with an emphasis on textile, from February 9th to 13th, 2026 as part of the ROMANDIC project . The purpose of the winter school is to address the underlying topics of robot handling of deformables and get hands-on experience in the specifics of perception, simulation, use of robots, and applications in the field. We have invited the leading scientists and practitioners in this field to give lectures and we have prepared interactive sessions / mini projects with the use of collaborative robots and simulation packages.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPANTS

Please wear name tags for all official events.

All attendees should attend all the invited lectures in the morning.

Please do not be late to events!

Speakers:

Renaud Detry – KU Leuven (KUL)

grasping and perception

Andrej Gams – Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI)

learning and manipulation; project partner

Tamim Asfour – Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie (KIT)

hardware and manipulation; project partner

Irene Garcia Camacho – Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)

benchmarking in robot cloth manipulation

Noémie Jaquier – KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

geometry- and physics-based learning and manipulation

Francis wyffels – Ghent University (UGent)

perception, learning and manipulation

Julia Borras – Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)

planning and manipulation of deformables; project partners

Gokhan Solak – Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)

safe learning, contact-rich manipulation, intention prediction and physical human-robot interaction

Danijel Skočaj – Faculty of Computer Science, University of Ljubljana (FRI)

perpection (winner of ICRA 2023 deformable object grasp point detection, 2nd place ICRA 2024 unfolding challenge)

Jihong Zhu – University of York, UK

deformable object manipulation, dressing assistance

The winter school will take place at a ski resort in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. Lectures will take place in the mornings, afternoons will be dedicated for outdoor activities like skiing and networking, and hands-on projects will be carried out in the evenings.

Please check the Registration tab for more information regarding the application procedure for this winter school.

Organizers:
Andrej Gams, Peter Nimac, Jan Jeričević, Matija Mavsar, Aleš Ude
Bojan Nemec, Miha Deniša (all JSI)
Júlia Borràs Sol, Guillem Alenyà (CSIC)
Tamim Asfour (KIT)