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From December 3 to 5, 2024, Rennes hosted Sport Physics 2024, a high-level international scientific conference dedicated to advances in scientific research in the fields of physics and biomechanics related to high-performance sports. This event, held every four years after the Summer Olympic Games, brings together experts and researchers to discuss the latest findings in the field. The conference [..]

Do we study an archaeological artifact differently in VR and in reality? The work carried out as part of Maxime Dumonteil's thesis in the HYBRID team - in collaboration with the archaeology laboratory of the Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, Trajectoires - studies the differences in behavior when carrying out a task in archaeology, between real and virtual environments. Experimentation carried [..]

Congratulations to Marco Tognon Marco Tognon is an Inria researcher in the Rainbow research team. He won the highly prestigious "2024 IROS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award" at the IROS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, taking place from 14 to 18 October 2024 at ADNEC in Abu Dhabi. Congratulations Marco ! This award recognises scientists who, early in their careers [..]

A look back at the 14th edition of Eurohaptics, the international conference on haptics, held in Lille from 30 June to 3 July Among the 400 participants, IRISA was well represented at the Eurohaptics conference, an international conference dedicated to the latest research and technologies in the field of haptics. In addition to the presence of Maud Marchal, professor at INSA Rennes, as General Co [..]

Claudio Pacchierotti, keynote speaker at ICRA2024 (Yokohama, Japan) Claudio Pacchierotti, CNRS researcher and member of the research team Rainbow, holder of the CNRS Bronze Medal and coordinator of the Horizon Europe RĔGO project, has been invited as a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Robotic and Automation ( ICRA) to present his research in Haptics. ICRA is the leading [..]

Within the framework of the synchronized recruitment campaign 2024 for junior or senior faculty members, IRISA is a host laboratory for around twenty positions, in association with partner training components. Consult the page

Archaeological remains are fragile witnesses that need to be analysed, interpreted and preserved. Imagine being able to excavate them without opening them... In 2017, major advances in the study of ancient Egyptian animal mummies emerged, opening up new perspectives on the history and culture of this civilisation. An in-depth study in Manchester of 800 Egyptian animal mummies revealed that a third [..]

Fouad Makiyeh (PhD student at the University of Rennes), François Chaumette (Inria Research Director), Maud Marchal (Professor at INSA Rennes) and Alexandre Krupa (Inria Research Director), members of the Rainbow team, were finalists for the best paper prize at the IROS 2023 conference held in Detroit at the beginning of October. Ten papers were shortlisted for the award from among the 1,200 [..]