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Congratulations to Jeanne Hecquard, who has been awarded the GDR IG-RV 2026 thesis prize, in collaboration with the French Association for Computer Graphics, the French Chapter of Eurographics and the AFXR for her thesis entitled « Modulation of social perception during virtual interactions with affective haptic devices » supervised by Marc Macé and Anatole Lécuyer, Justine Saint-Aubert, Ferran [..]

Congratulations to the SEAMLESS and VIRTUS teams, who received awards at the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2026 The ACM SAP 2026 - Symposium on Applied Perception international conference, which took place in Rennes at the Inria centre at the University of Rennes on 26–27 August, recognised the S /node/1649EAMLESS and VIRTUS research teams. Congratulations for the the Best Paper Award, to [..]

The RAINBOW research team has once again excelled this summer – congratulations to everyone! Highlights included the prestigious award won by Marco Tognon at the 2026 Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) International Conference, as well as the three prizes awarded to researchers from the RAINBOW and SEAMLESS teams at EuroHaptics 2026. Marco Tognon honoured with the 2026 Early Career Spotlight Award [..]

Congratulations to Leo-Paul Huar, PhD student within the Combo research team, who received the Best Industrial Paper Award at the ICPR 2026 conference, held from August 17 to 22, 2026, in Lyon. This award recognizes his PhD research, entitled “3D Scene Compression Using Gaussian Splats.” Leo-Paul Huar is pursuing a CIFRE PhD in collaboration with InterDigital and is co-supervised by Pierre Hellier [..]

Congratulations to Pierre-Antoine Cabaret and his co-authors, members of the Rainbow team Congratulations to Pierre-Antoine Cabaret, who received an honourable mention in the Best Paper Award at the EuroHaptics 2026 conference for the paper entitled "Evaluation of Haptic Guidance Strategies with Power Wheelchair Users Using a Multi-Actuator Vibrotactile Handle" co-authored with Louise Devigne [..]

A closer look at some cutting-edge research highlights from the Rainbow research team, which is developing the next generation of robots and drones. Rainbow’s strength in developing robots capable of reacting to their environment or to other robots lies in its interdisciplinary approach, whereas other teams in France often focus on just one or two areas. The forty or so people who make up Rainbow [..]

Congratulations to Maxime Manzano, who has been awarded the thesis prize by IFRATH – the Federative Institute for Research into Technical Aids for People with Disabilities Maxime Manzano defended his thesis in December 2025, entitled “Contributions to the ergonomics and control strategies of upper limb assistive exoskeletons”, under the supervision of Marie Babel, Sylvain Guegan and Ronan Le [..]

This June’s edition of “Emergences” focuses on - more ethical AI for code generation using the CodeCommons infrastructure (DIVERSE Research Team) - modelling the movement of dense crowds (VIRTUS Research Team)