Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

• ROBOCOP: Robotization of Cochlear implant. This is a 4-year project, supported by the ANR (French National Agency for Research) in the framework of PRCE, starting from 1 October 2019 until 30 September 2023. ROBOCOP aims at creating a new prototype of cochlear implant, and robotize (i.e. actuate and control) its insertion process to facilitate the work of surgeon, to increase the success ratio, and to decrease the probability of trauma.

• SIMILAR Soft robotIcs framework for modeling, simulation and control. This project is supported by Inria ADT, and the objective is to design new 3D interactive software to design soft-robots. This new software will be on the top of our existing software stack relying on SOFA for all numerical simulation aspects and 3D rendering aspects.

• Tremplin ERC Christian Duriez received a ANR grant “tremplin ERC” (150k€) given the result obtained last year on the ERC proposal (evaluated at “grade A”). The project has allowed to allocate new resources on the developments that were presented in this ERC.