An appealing solution to tackle data scarcity in 🤖 learning is realying on simulators. But how good are they? Huge effort with David Blanco-Mulero in crafting a real dataset, simulating it, and evaluating the min sim-to-real gap achievable through optimization arxiv.org/abs/2310.09543

David Blanco-Mulero Google DeepMind NVIDIA @SofaFramework This is quite amazing. I love works like this because they are super informative.

Happy to receive the honorary mention in the Aalto University Open Science Award for our research done on Robotic Manipulation of deformable objects! Thanks to my collaborators Tran Nguyen Le Gokhan Alcan and Ville Kyrki ! Here the news article: aalto.fi/en/news/aalto-…

Really great to get to know all the other partners of SoftEnable EU Project and share ideas with them! If you didn't know about SoftEnable and you're interested in deformable object manipulation check out the project!

📢 Master thesis Call: 'Accelerating Caging Analysis via Optimal Transport' ➡️iri.upc.edu/master_thesis/… 👤 Supervisors: David Blanco David Blanco-Mulero and Júlia Borràs Julia Borras Sol  Preferences: 🔸️MAMME Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística - UPC 🔸️MESIO Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística - UPC 🔸️Automatic Control Robotics ETSEIB

I'll be presenting our work on benchmarking cloth manipulation in MuJoCo, SOFA, Bullet and Nvidia Flex at IEEE ICRA #ICRA40 on Tuesday. If you're attending next week, let's have a chat! I'm always eager to new collaborations!

Our code and dataset for benchmarking the sim2real gap in cloth manipulation are finally out! Code: github.com/dblanm/benchma… Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… We also provide a docker for SOFA with Python 3, if you've never tried it out, check our environment!

#ICRA40 was an amazing opportunity to get insights about the past and future of robotics from some of the best roboticists in the world, have a conversation with them and create new collaborations. Huge thanks to the organizers for arranging such encouraging conference!

🤝 The SoftEnable EU Project consortium meeting takes place at IRI-Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial For two days, partners share the latest updates of the project 🔍 Discover more about the project here: iri.upc.edu/project/show/2…

I'm happy to announce that we just got our certificates for the IEEE Finland CSS/RAS/SMCS Joint Chapter Best Paper Award 2022! Huge thanks to all collaborators Ville Kyrki Gokhan Alcan and specially to @HietalaJulius who led this work! Check the project: sites.google.com/view/dynamic-c…

As member of SoftEnable EU Project today I had the chance to visit and witness the incredible work of nurses and doctors, and how they benefit from robots to assist them on surgeries. Huge thanks to the Hospital Clínic for hosting us!

1/1 papers accepted to #IROS2025 this year. Stay tuned to know more!

Check out the different use cases that we are working on the SoftEnable project. If you're interested in deformable object manipulation or robotics for healthcare check it out!