LAIR: Learning, Autonomous, and Intelligent Robots


Welcome to our webpage! We are are a part of Delft University of Technology, 3ME Faculty, Cognitive Robotics Group, Learning and Autononomous Control Group.

Group Photo
A recent photo from the farewell party of Carlos, due to pandemic not all of us is present.

Recent News:

  • new paper Jihong Zhu, Michael Gienger, and Jens Kober. Learning Task-Parameterized Skills from Few Demonstrations. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022.

  • new paper Jihong Zhu, Andrea Cherubini, Claire Dune, David Navarro-Alarcon, Farshid Alambeigi, Dmitry Berenson, Fanny Ficuciello, Kensuke Harada, Jens Kober, Xiang Li, Jia Pan, Wenzhen Yuan, and Michael Gienger. Challenges and Outlook in Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2022.
  • ICRA2022 Tutorial accepted: Tools for Robotic Reinforcement Learning: Hands-on RL for Robotics with EAGER and Stable-Baselines3 accepted.
  • Podcast (in Dutch): Career Advice for Robots
  • new preprint: Anna Mészáros, Giovanni Franzese, and Jens Kober. Teaching Robots to Grasp Like Humans: An Interactive Approach.
  • new conference paper: Antonin Raffin, Jens Kober, and Freek Stulp. Smooth Exploration for Robotic Reinforcement Learning. In Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2021.
  • Jens Kober is co-organizing the NeurIPS 2021 4th Robot Learning Workshop: Self-Supervised and Lifelong Learning
  • new journal paper: Padmaja Kulkarni, Jens Kober, Robert Babuška, and Cosimo Della Santina. Learning Assembly Tasks in a Few Minutes by Combining Impedance Control and Residual Recurrent Reinforcement Learning. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021.
  • Best Late Breaking Results Poster Award: AIM 2021 for Giovanni Franzese, Anna Mészáros, Luka Peternel, and Jens Kober. ILoSA: Interactive Learning of Stiffness and Attractors.
  • new conference paper: Bas van der Heijden, Laura Ferranti, Jens Kober, and Robert Babuška. DeepKoCo: Efficient Latent Planning with an Invariant Koopman Representation. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 183–189, 2021.