I organised the TC on Robot Control's Special Forum at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh: Is Robotics Underinvesting in Its Own Foundations?

Our paper on natural quadruped gaits from nonlinear oscillations, led by Annika Schmidt, is accepted at Nature Machine Intelligence.

Co-organising the IFAC World Congress 2026 workshop in Busan: Open Challenges and Emerging Opportunities in Robot Control, Part 2.

neoDavid is on the cover of IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. Paper

Co-organising the ECC 2026 workshop: Open Challenges and Emerging Opportunities in Robot Control, Part 1.

Xuming Meng defended his PhD thesis and joined Agile Robots SE.

I joined Eindhoven University of Technology as Assistant Professor in the Robotics section, alongside my role at DLR.

Researcher in the Spotlight: Shumon Koga, by the TC on Robot Control.

Finger Flow, our reactive reach-while-grasp controller led by Xuming Meng, is accepted in Robotics and Autonomous Systems.

Social event at IROS 2025, hosted by the TCs on Robot Control, Model-based Optimization for Robotics, and Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion.

Attending IROS 2025 in Hangzhou, China.

Best Robot Control Paper Award: winner and finalists announced by the TC on Robot Control.

A visco-elastic actuator with linear gas spring and variable damping, led by Florian Loeffl, appears in Mechatronics.

Geriatronics Summit 2025: I moderated the breakout group on safe physical human-robot interaction for frail users, which took 2nd place in the Best Project-Idea Award.

ICRA 2025 in Atlanta, USA, with a joint TC social event co-hosted by the TC on Robot Control.

Attending ERF 2025 in Stuttgart, Germany.

Call for nominations: TC on Robot Control Best Paper Award.

The IEEE RAS TC on Robot Control website is up.

Kickoff event for our TC at IROS 2024.

Co-founded the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Robot Control, which I co-chair.

Invited talk at the RSS 2024 Workshop on Semantics for Robotics. Recording

Organised RSS Pioneers 2024 at RoboHouse, TU Delft, as general co-chair with Nare Karapetyan.

Georges Giralt PhD Award for the best doctoral thesis in robotics in Europe. DLR announcement

Shortlisted for the Georges Giralt PhD Award.

Hosted the IROS 2023 workshop No More Slow Flexible Robots on design and control of compliant robotic systems.

Named general co-chair of RSS Pioneers 2024.

Organised the 16th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics in Munich, with keynotes by Antonio Bicchi, Adriana Tapus, Christian Ott and Patrick van der Smagt.

Started as general co-chair of the 16th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics.