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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 [..]

As part of IRISA's 50th anniversary celebrations, don't miss our April month's guest speaker, Pierre L'Écuyer, Professor at Université de Montréal, Thursday, April 10 at 2:00 p.m. His talk (in French) will be on Reliable random number generators Registration required. #50ansIRISA

IRISA is proud to be involved in the creation of EuroBERT, the most powerful multilingual encoder model for information retrieval, classification and quality estimation (for summarisation and machine translation) in 15 languages. Caio Corro, an associate professor at INSA Rennes and a researcher in the LinkMedia research team, collaborated on the creation of EuroBERT. Intelligence Artificielle et [..]

Storing our data on DNA To be discovered, a new way of storing information on DNA molecules! written by Dominique Lavenier, CNRS research director and researcher in the Genscale research team. La production mondiale de données croît à un rythme exponentiel. Elle double tous les 3 ans. Cette masse d’informations est stockée dans des « data centers », d’immenses usines numériques extrêmement [..]

As part of IRISA's 50th anniversary celebrations, don't miss this month's guest speaker, Frank Steinicke, Professor at the University of Hamburg, on Thursday 06 March at 2.30pm. His talk, entitled ‘Is XR Winter Coming? Bridging between Artificial Intelligence and Extended Reality’ is subject to compulsory registration.

From 29 to 31 January, we welcomed 13 secondary school pupils to give them an insight into the world of IT research. Over the course of the three days, our researchers took time to welcome Liam, Come, Alwena, William, Basile, Alban, Alois, Pierre, Jules, Amalia, Camille, Tytouan and Violette, who had come to IRISA and the Inria centre at the University of Rennes to complete their work placement [..]

Synapse, the first joint laboratory combining a media organisation and academic research With the support of the French National Research Agency, Ouest-France, CNRS and the University of Rennes are launching Synapse, the first joint laboratory aimed to interconnect artificial intelligence, the media, press content, journalists and readers. Synapse will work towards quality journalism, offering [..]