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Dr. Guillem Alenyà

Dr. Guillem Alenyà is Researcher and Director of the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC. He has contributed novel approaches to the areas of learning and HRI devoted to facilitate the introduction of robots in human environments, particularly focusing on robot vision, learning from human robot interaction, decision making and personalization of robot behavior.

Prof. Carme Torras

Prof. Carme Torras is a Research Professor at Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC. She investigates the convergence of robotics and artificial intelligence, with a strong emphasis on assistive robots, particularly focused on textile manipulation and safe interaction with humans. Her research also includes the ethical and social implications of robotics, emphasizing responsible and human-centered systems.

Dr. Júlia Borràs

Dr. Júlia Borràs is a Researcher and Dep. Director of the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC. Her research tackles scene-state estimation, planning and knowledge representation, as well as the design of novel grippers for grasping and dexterous manipulation of deformable objects.

Dr. Adrià Colomé

Dr. Adrià Colomé is a Researcher at Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC. His research combines machine learning, motion planning and compliant control to enable robots to adapt and execute complex manipulation skills safely and efficiently in dynamic environments.

Dr. Sergi Foix

Dr. Sergi Foix is a Researcher at Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC. His fields of interest are NBV planning for active vision, deformable object pose estimation for robot manipulation, and human robot interaction for assistive robotics.

Dr. Pablo Jimenez

Dr. Pablo Jimenez is a Researcher at Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC. He investigates how robots can perceive and act on non-rigid objects and how robotic systems integrate with humans, exploring the ethical aspects of robotics and artificial intelligence.

Irene Garcia Camacho

Irene Garcia Camacho is a Ph.D. candidate at Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC. Her research is focused on robotic manipulation and benchmarking of deformable objects, particularly on cloth manipulation. She works on designing shared object sets and task benchmarks to standardize evaluation.

Research

  • Partner Team members major expertise 
    Partner team members at CSIC IRI have expertise in robot perception, deformable-object modelling, task and motion planning, learning (including learning from demonstration and reinforcement learning), and end-effector design, combining theoretical knowledge of cloth topology with practical skills in robot control and dual-arm manipulation.
  •  Main Science & Technologies activities
    The group develops algorithms and systems for geometric/3D reconstruction of textiles, state-space representations for highly deformable objects, action selection and task/motion planning, and data-driven controllers that generalize across fabric types.
    The group has led and collaborated in several national and European projects including: CLOTHILDE (aimed to establish the foundations of robotic cloth manipulation), IMAGINE (focused on developing an AI-enabled disassembly system for recycling electronic waste) and COHERENT (centered on knowledge representation and explainable machine learning techniques for deformable object manipulation).
    Technology outputs include specialized datasets and benchmarks for cloth tasks, probabilistic task planners, reinforcement-learning pipelines for manipulation primitives, and engineered grippers for reliable textile grasps.
  • 1-3 Pictures of main technologies developed and suitable for the project accompanied by a short description
    The versatile gripper for cloth manipulation is designed to perform several types of grasp to execute a variety of cloth manipulation tasks.

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