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Congratulations to the Rainbow research team for once again standing out through its numerous contributions at the international IEEE ICRA 2026, underscoring its expertise and strong reputation within the global robotics community. The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is widely recognized as one of the world's leading conferences in robotics and automation. Held in [..]

The Rainbow research team has once again distinguished itself and has been awarded the prize for the best paper of 2025 by the IEEE Robotic Automation Society Technical Committee on Optimization for Robotics for its paper Sensitivity-Aware Model Predictive Control for Robots with Parametric Uncertainty, by Tommaso Belvedere (post doctorant CNRS, Rainbow), Marco Cognetti (Associate Professor at [..]

Congratulations to Marco Tognon on the publication of his article « Agile and Cooperative Aerial Manipulation of a Cable-Suspended Load » in the prestigious journal Science Robotics. Science Robotics is one of the most influential and prestigious journals in the field of robotics. It focuses on cutting-edge research in robotics, covering topics ranging from robot engineering to their interaction [..]

(only in french) Les visites Insolites du CNRS proposent chaque année des expériences uniques, en groupe restreint, au cœur de la recherche. Sites inaccessibles, expériences atypiques, rendez-vous singuliers sont au programme sur l’ensemble du territoire pour les quelques privilégiés tirés au sort. Dans le cadre de ses 50 ans, l'IRISA vous invite au sein du laboratoire pour toucher le virtuel et [..]

Two intense months for the Rainbow research team Strong presence of the Rainbow research team at the ICRA 2025 international conference in Atlanta in May In May, the ICRA 2025 international conference took place in Atlanta (USA), the major robotics conference where the Rainbow research team particularly stood out through its involvement in the workshop committees. In fact, four workshops proposed [..]

On the occasion of the European Archaeology Days, Valérie Gouranton, associate professor and Ronan Gaugne, a research engineer in the Seamless team, students from INSA Rennes and the Adramar association, presented a virtual reality project at the foot of the Solidor Tower in Saint-Malo to promote underwater heritage. Thanks to a replica of the famous Nautilus submarine, built by Marvin Johnson [..]

Congratulations to Maximilian Mehl Congratulations to Maximilian Mehl , Inria PhD in the Rainbow research team, who has received the Best Paper Award in the AI & Robotics track at the European Robotics Forum (ERF) 2025, held in Stuttgart 20 25-27 of march. for the paper entitled ‘ Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Robust End-to-End UAV Control from Simulation to Real System Application’ by [..]

An international team of researchers, including Claudio Pacchierotti, a CNRS researcher within the Rainbow research team, published a review in Nature Reviews Bioengineering on the current state of wearable multi-sensory haptic devices. Since their emergence in the 1960s, haptic devices — which enable communication through touch — have evolved significantly. Initially based on rigid, stationary [..]