Author: Claudio Castellini

In the frame of an international exchange programme generously supported by the University of Jember and the Indonesian Government, Claudio is spending two weeks in lovely Jember, East Java, Indonesia, at the local university. He will be teaching, contributing to workshops and consulting for the ...

Mr. Francesco Vichi, currently a M.Sc. student at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa (Italy) will be spending one month at AIROB, on a scientific cooperation with the Neurorobotic Touch Laboratory headed by Prof. Calogero Oddo. We will be exploring interesting applications of tactile sensing base...

At last, here is a somewhat detailed video interview appearing on the website of MEDICA, possibly the largest and most interesting trade fair for medical technology. In the interview, introduced by Dr. Matthias Ponfick of the Hospital for Spinal Cord Injuries in Rummelsberg and Claudio Castellini...

A new Ph.D. position is now open at the AIROB Lab! The position is directly funded by the Free State of Bavaria and it's an open topic position, meaning that the Ph.D. topic has not yet been precisely defined. Broadly speaking, however, your Ph.D. will revolve around merging intent detection and exo...

About a project we are still finishing at the DLR, Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, phantom pain, prosthetic control, and much more going on in Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics. An instructional clip filmed at Claudio's second affiliation, including Mr. Markus Nowak, Ms. Mathilde Conn...

Mr. Andrea Gigli, external Ph.D. candidate at AIROB@FAU and DLR, is visiting AIROB for one week. He'll be dealing with gathering data from amputated participants with a revolutionary unsupervised machine learning myocontrol system. Stay tuned! Mr. Andrea Gigli is a research fellow at the German A...

November 2022: Dr. Khairul Anam of Jember University, Jember, Indonesia is joining for one month and will be working on ML-based myocontrol of a low-cost hand prosthesis. Dr. Khairul Anam has been a senior lecturer at the Department of Electrical engineering, the University of Jember since 2005. ...

Today we received and unpacked our first "true" robots, which will find a happy home in the lab: two Franka Research III ! The arms are planned to be used for teleoperation, prosthetic simulation, haptic feedback and psychophysical experiments, as well as in general, for bimanual manipulation. ...

The AIROB website - actually, the one you are browsing thru right now - is now online. Please report any inaccuracy to the Webmaster!

After much thinking and musing, the Laboratory for Assistive, Intelligent Robotics at FAU is born! We are located at Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61, in the beautiful city of Erlangen. Are you interested in working with us? Then check out the Vacancies page as well as the page where student theses ...