Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Research Visitors

Visits of International Scientists

• Jan Peters, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt

• Marc Toussaint, Stuttgart University

• Justus Piater, University of Innsbruck

• Luis Montesano, University of Zaragoza

• Michael Mistry, Lecturer in Robotics, Intelligent Robotics Lab, University of Birmingham

• Andrej Gams, Post-doc, Biorobotics Laboratory, EPFL

• Adrien Baranes, Columbia University, NY, US

• Katharina Rohlfing, Bielefeld University, Germany

• Yannis Demiris, Imperial College, UK

• Andrew Barto, Univ. Massachussets at Amherst, US

Internships

• Jules Brochard, Emergent Proximo-Distal Maturation through Adaptive Exploration

• Axel Davy, Safe exploration in MDPs

• Julie Golliot, Experimental Platform for User Study of Curiosity-driven Exploration

• Brice Miard, Experimental Platform for User Study of Curiosity-driven Exploration

• Chloé Rozenbaum, Learning Simultaneously New Tasks and Feedback Models in Socially Guided Robot Learning

• Caio Tomazelli Da Silva Oliveira, Multimodal learning of speech-action-video primitives

Visits to International Teams

PY Oudeyer visited Gottlieb's Cognitive Neuroscience lab at Columbia University, NY, US; CITEC at Bielefeld University, Germany.

F. Stulp visited the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Stefan Schaal) in Tuebingen, Germany.

In May 2013, Matthieu Lapeyre visited the Bristol Robotic Lab to present the Poppy robot. A close collaboration will begin in 2014, in particular they will hire an engineer to design grasping hand for Poppy.

In May 2013, Jonathan Grizou visited Iñaki Iturrate and Luis Montesano at Zaragoza University, Spain.

In July 2013, Manuel Lopes visit the lab of Andrea Thomaz at Georgia Tech.

In August 2013, Clément Moulin-Frier visited the Honda Research Center in Tokyo as well as Pr. Sawada at Kagawa University, Japan. He gave talks in both labs. He also visited the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory directed by Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro and Asada Laboratory directed by Prof. Minoru Asada, in Osaka. In October 2013 he visited the Developmental Neuromechanics & Communication Lab at Princeton University, USA.

In August 2013, Fabien Benureau, Olivier Mangin, Mai Nguyen and Jonathan Grizou, visited the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory directed by Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro, Osaka; the Humanoid Robotics Institute directed by Prof. Atsuo Takanishi, Tokyo; Intelligent Systems and Informatics Laboratory directed by Prof. Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Tokyo; and Asada Laboratory directed by Prof. Minoru Asada, Osaka.

In October 2013, Manuel Lopes, Clément Moulin-Frier and Mai Nguyen visited the Cognitive Neuroscience lab of Jacqueline Gottlieb in New York.