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 September 3, 2020, the fourth Robotix-Academy Summer School started at the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld. Here, the scientific staff of all partner universities of the Robotix-Academy came together to find practical solutions for problems, e.g. in the implementation of demonstrators, and to learn from each other. Due to the constraints of the Corona pandemic, the…
On May 27, 2020, the event LabWorks took place at the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld (UCB) of the Trier University of Applied Sciences, where foreign pupils and students had the opportunity to get to know different research areas of the UCB through workshops and laboratory experiments. The experts of the Robotix-Academy presented the field of robotics…
On January 28, three dozen senior high school students from across the region visited the University of Liège to participate in two-hour workshops offered by each of the university’s departments and laboratories. For its part, the Robotics and Automation Laboratory organized a workshop where the young people were given a 15-minute presentation to learn about…
From 04 to 06 September 2019, the third Robotix-Academy Summer School took place at the University of Lorraine. Scientific staff from all Robotix-Academy partner universities came together to learn from each other in different workshops. It is already the third event of this kind, after the Summer School started in Saarbrücken at ZeMA in 2017…
On April 05, 2019, a group of pupils from the Gymnasium am Schloss visited ZeMA together with their exchange partners from Thionville. 14 German and French pupils of a 9th grade each had come to ZeMA to participate in a workshop on the topic “Our future in 30 years – latest developments and technologies”. During…
The second Robotix-Academy Summer School took place at the University of Liège (Belgium) from September 3-5, 2018 and offered the opportunity to bring together PhD and Master students from the 5 partner universities. The University of Liège organized the second Summer School in the framework of the Robotix-Academy project. At the beginning of September, 16…