On the  13 th  of September 2022 , LARICS participated in an unusual setting for robotics - a fashion show. The first independent fashion show by Croatian fashion brand  Klisab , FALLFALL6, featured three spherical robots developed in collaboration between  LARICS  from FER at the University of Zagreb,  TU Delft  in the Netherlands, and Croatian artist  Hrvoje Hiršl . To find out more about the project, check out our earlier post  here , and for pictures and more information about the show and Klisab, visit their  Facebook page . A short video of the show is available on  YouTube .   Author of photograph: Karla Juric / @ninetofivestudio

ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT) 2022  was held on September 07 th  - 09 th  in Limassol, Cyprus. LARICS researcher  Marko Križmančić  attended the conference and presented the paper " Distributed Connectivity Control in Bio-Hybrid Wireless Sensor Networks " (Marko Križmančić, Tim-Lucas Rabbel, Eduard Buss, Mostafa Wahby, Heiko Hamann, Stjepan Bogdan).   We are proud to announce that another paper, " PhytoNodes for Environmental Monitoring: Stimulus Classification based on Natural Plant Signals in an Interactive Energy-efficient Bio-hybrid System " (Eduard Buss, Tim-Lucas Rabbel, Viktor Horvat, Marko Krizmancic, Stjepan Bogdan, Mostafa Wahby, Heiko Hamann), presented by Eduard Buss and co-authored by LARICS members won the best paper award sponsored by MDPI “Sensors”.   These two papers are the product of a close collaboration between LARICS and the University of Lübeck and the result of several months of hard work on the  WatchPlant  project. Both are published in open access and can be found  here  and  here .   The GoodIT 2022 conference was also an excellent opportunity for representatives of five European projects selected for the call  FET Proactive - Boosting emerging technologies  (WatchPlant, ReSET, iSeed, Smart Lagoon, Ramones) to meet and discuss their progress in the  Special track on IT for Environmental Intelligence .

LARICS  PhD student Dario Stuhne published an article Design of a Wireless Drone Recharging Station and a Special Robot End Effector for Installation on a Power Line in scientific journal IEEE Access on 29 th of August 2022 .     D. Stuhne et al., "Design of a Wireless Drone Recharging Station and a Special Robot End Effector for Installation on a Power Line," in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 88719-88737, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3201351. 

Four LARICS researchers Jurica Goričanec, Lovro Marković Marijana Peti and Filip Zorić attended the AeroStream Summer School 2022  on multi robot systems held from 1 st to 4 th of August at Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic . A few lectures were from top academic researchers in the field of robotics, such as Anibal Ollero, Konstantinos Alexis, Martin Saska, etc. Each day a rich networking program was provided after the lectures in the form of social dinners and sightseeing trips. 

As a part of project Caliper, an interview was published, with LARICS Lab assistant professor Ph.D. Tamara Petrović. The goal of the interview is to promote horizontal principles, equality, and representation of women scientists at the university and their involvement in projects.   

LARICS members Stjepan Bogdan and Marko Krizmančić participated at the 4 th WatchPlant General assembly held from 13 th -14 th of July 2022 in Stockholm, Sweden , where all partners presented activities carried out during the last six months. The review meeting of the project WatchPlant was held on the  15 th of July 2022 in Stockholm, Sweden . At the meeting activities from the beginning of the project were presented to the representatives of the European commission . The project received excellent feedback from reviewers and the project officer, thus the team continues with its work.  

On 14 th of July LARICS team researcher Dario Stuhne  attended the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics ( AIM2022 ) conference that was held from 11 th -15 th of July in hybrid form in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan . The article "Design and Prototyping of Soft Finger AI-enabled Hand (SofIA)" was presented as a part of Specularia project.   

Filip Zoric , Stjepan Bogdan and Goran Vasiljevic participated at 2 nd review meeting of the Aerial Core project that was held in Lausanne, Switzerland and which was held during week 4 th to 8 th July 2022 . The consortium presented the results of AERIAL-CORE's second period , performing demonstrations at EPFL, as well as streaming demonstrations from US, CTU, UT and Donecle .