On March 18, 2021, the University of Luxembourg (Uni Lu) hosted a robot programming workshop as part of the Robotix Academy. A handful of students took the opportunity to teach a robot on site in the robotics lab. The Robotix-Academy research assistants instructed the students and each student had the opportunity to move the robot…
On March 10, Xiaomei Xu, PhD student at ZeMA and research associate at the Robotix Academy, was able to present her demonstrator “Intelligent robot system for solving dissection puzzle” at a Coffee Break. Using various machine learning methods (reinforcement learning) such as K-nearest neighbor, decision tree, or Deep Q network, the robot autonomously learns a…
On 04.02.2021 the doctoral thesis disputation titled “Agile manufacturing control for (re)fabrication systems” of Sebastian Groß took place. The PhD was carried out in a cooperation between the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld (UCB) of the University of Applied Sciences Trier and the University of Luxembourg (Uni Lu), as well as financed by the Interreg V A…
Like every year, the Robotix-Academy week of lecture took place at the beginning of the year, from February 1 to 5, 2021. This event was organized by the University of Liege, online, because of the sanitary conditions. Despite this constraint, this week went very well. The lectures and exercises could easily be followed through…
On July 16, 2020, this year’s RACIR Robotix-Academy Conference for Industrial Robotics took place at ZeMA in Saarbrücken. Due to the current contact restrictions caused by the Corona pandemic, RACIR was held as a web conference for the first time. With 26 connected participants, the conference was a successful event that was beneficial to both…
The sixth edition of the Robotix Lecture within the Robotix-Academy took place at ZeMA in Saarbrücken from February 03 to 07, 2020. This five-day block seminar was again attended by well over 40 participants from the different partner universities of the Greater Region: Université de Lorraine (France), Université de Liège (Belgium), Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld UCB (Germany)…
What a Christmas present! Right before the end of the year, on December 20, 2019, the Robotix-Academy was informed that the INTERREG authority has approved the application for the extension and increase of the project. The Steering Committee of the INTERREG V A Greater Region program informed the project consortium that the submitted application has…
On June 05, the third Robotix-Academy Conference for Industrial Robotics – RACIR – took place at the University of Liège. Here, about 30 representatives of partner universities from the Greater Region gathered to present on innovative research topics in industrial robotics: 11 young scientists presented the progress of their work to an audience of researchers,…
The fifth edition of the Robotix Lecture within the Robotix-Academy took place from 04 to 08 February 2019 at the University of Luxembourg, Kirchberg campus. This five-day block seminar was attended by 40 master students, 4 professors and a dozen assistants from each of the partner universities of the Greater Region: Université de Lorraine (France),…
From 04 to 05 June 2018, research associates and PhD students met at the University of Luxembourg for the 2nd RACIR – Robotix-Academy Conference for Industrial Robotics. The research assistants, PhD students and master students from the partner universities gathered for two days in Luxembourg and presented papers on innovative research topics in industrial robotics.…