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IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Launches a Science and Technology Watch Board [President’s Message]

Aude Billard

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2025

Corrections to “Learning the Inverse Hitting Problem”

Aude Billard, Harshit Khurana

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2025

RAS Publication Review Process Goes Double Anonymous

Aude Billard

2025

Passive Obstacle-Aware Control to Follow Desired Velocities

Aude Billard, Lukas Huber

Evaluating and updating the obstacle avoidance velocity for an autonomous robot in real-time ensures robustness against noise and disturbances. A passive damping controller can obtain the desired motion with a torque-controlled robot, which remains complia ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2025

A Roadmap for Ai in Robotics

Aude Billard

There is growing excitement about the potential of leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle some of the outstanding barriers to the full deployment of robots in daily lives. However, action and sensing in the physical world pose greater and differ ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

Quantitative Outcome-Oriented Assessment of Microsurgical Anastomosis

Aude Billard, Soheil Gholami

Microsurgical anastomosis demands exceptional dexterity and visuospatial skills, underscoring the importance of comprehensive training and precise outcome assessment. Currently, methods such as the outcome-oriented anastomosis lapse index are used to evalu ...

2025

“Data will solve robotics and automation: True or false?”: A debate

Aude Billard

Leading researchers debate the long-term influence of model-free methods that use large sets of demonstration data to train numerical generative models to control robots. ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)2025

Designing and using robots for environmental sustainability

Aude Billard

If you were to ask a random passerby to describe what a robot is made of and how it is powered, they would likely tell you that a robot is made of metal and requires electricity to operate. Experts, however, would likely say that robotic control systems co ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)2025

Robots that share our spaces require proprioception and a sense of touch

Aude Billard

Imagine stepping away from your desk and reaching out for your office's light switch with your eyes closed. You might manage to complete the task successfully but might instead hit the corner of your desk or knock over the coffee mug your colleague just le ...

2025

Tube Acceleration: Robust Dexterous Throwing Against Release Uncertainty

Aude Billard

In robotic throwing, the release phase involves complex dynamic interactions due to object deformation and limited gripper opening speed, often resulting in inaccurate and nonrepeatable throws. While data-driven methods can be employed to compensate for th ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024