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Remark: IML exhibited selective harvesting robot at COP26 (UN Conference on Climate Change, 2021-11-02~12); Read more about it in news article!

Latest News

2024-11-16: Dr. Amir starts his appointment as Senior Editor of IEEE T-ASE (Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering).
2024-10-24: Dr. Amir gave an invited talk at the IEEE Full-Day Workshop at the International Conference on Social Robotics. View video here.
2024-10-14: Dr. Amir gave an invited talk at the IEEE IROS 2025 Haptics Workshop on evolving landscape challenges.
2024-09-29: Acoustic Soft Curvature Sensing accepted for publication in Robotics and Automation Letters. (IEEE Paper)

2024-06-14: Congratulations to the Fast-Pick team on their publication in Journal of Field Robotics. Link to the paper.

2024-05-19: Amir gave an invited talk at Soft Talk Series invited by Prof. Ahmad Rafsanjani at SDU, Video!.

2024-05-19: Amir gave an invited talk at 2024 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics and Automation Website.

2024-05-09: Dr. Kiyanoush Nazari successfully defended his PhD on data-driven robot control. Published in AAAI, CoRL, IROS, ICRA, RSS, and submitted to Nature Machine Intelligence.

2024-01-24: Congratulations to Vishnu Rajendran on his paper "Acoustic Soft Tactile Skin" being accepted at the IEEE ICRA. (Pre-print Link)

2024-01-14: Congratulations to Vishnu Rajendran on his paper "2-D Acoustic Soft Tactile Skin" being accepted at the IEEE Robosoft Conference. (Pre-print Link)

2023-12-01: Best wishes to Vishnu Rajendran on his new role as a Research Engineer at Omnifactory, University of Nottingham.

2023-11-06: Will Mandil starts an internship at Toshiba Research, focusing on model-based RL. Best of luck!

2023-11-01: Kiyanoush Nazari joins Lincoln Institute for Agri-food Technology as a Research Assistant. Congrats!

2023-11-01: Dr. Amir Ghalamzan, IML Director, begins a new chapter as Associate Professor at the University of Surrey. Exciting research ahead!

2023-08-10: Will Mandil and team publish in Sensors. (Pre-print Link)

2023-04-25: Congratulations to Rahaf Rahal and collaborators on their paper in Autonomous Robots. (Pre-print Link)

2023-03-10: Vishnu Rajendran's paper accepted in International Journal of Field Robotics. (Pre-print Link)

2023-01-10: Dr. Soran Parsa published in International Journal of Field Robotics. (Pre-print Link)

2022-10-01: Congratulations to Alessandro Tafuro for her paper being accepted at IEEE IROS 2022. (Pre-print Link)

2022-10-01: Congratulations to Kiyanoush Nazari on his paper accepted at CoRL 2022 (Conference on Robot Learning). (Video Presentation)

2022-08-01: The IML strawberry-picking robot successfully tested at Dyson Glasshouse. Read more on Twitter.

2022-07-01: Congratulations to Alessandro Tafuro on her paper accepted at IEEE IROS 2022. Also published in ICRA 2022. (Video Presentation)

2022-06-01: Kudos to Vishnu Rajendran on his paper accepted at ICCR2022, focusing on strawberry-picking robotics.

2022-05-01: Congratulations to Dr. Soran Parsa on his paper accepted at CHI'22. (Video Presentation)

2022-04-12: Dr. Amir will give a plenary talk at the Global Meet on Agricultural Science and Technology. (GMAST2023)

2022-04-12: Congratulations to Willow Mandil and Kiyanoush Nazari for their RSS conference paper. Read more on LinkedIn.

2022-03-29: IML showcased robots at UKRI’s “Robots for a Safer Future” event. Read more here.

2022-01-10: Congratulations to Alessandro Tafuro and Rick on their IEEE ICRA paper on strawberry-picking dataset. View dataset on GitHub.

2021-12-01: Congratulations to Yetty and the team on their AAAI paper on Deep Movement Primitives for breast cancer examination. View paper.

2021-11-01: IML exhibited its Robots at COP26 as part of the Robofruits project.

Current & past projects highlights

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Medical Robotics

Intelligent algorithms and soft robotic systems for early breast cancer detection.

Agri-food Robotics

Robotic picking from strawberry clusters.

Waste Decommissioning Robotics

Haptitc-guided teleoperation for manipulation tasks.

Our team

Our team brings together researchers, doctorands, and master students.

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Testimonials

Read about the experiences of past team members.

Looking back at how I changed during this period, I see that this experience has given me a lot, not only in terms of practical knowledge, which is obviously important, but mainly in terms of experience and self-confidence.

Giorgio Bonvicini

M.Sc. Student

About IML

Outreach and impact

IML is committed to impactful research activities. These include knowledge transfer to companies and education. IML represented the University of Surrey research towards Net Zero and showcased its research demo at COP26--United Nations ( UN Climate Change in 2021) Conference. See photos of our exhibition and news at IML at COP26.

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Workshops and talks

IML team is actively involved in organising international scientific workshops/tutorials, and team members are actively giving invited talks. Scientific Workshops at international conferences, invited talks at different venues.

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