Dries Marzougui

Very glad to share our recent interdisciplinary work, which was published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface: "Evolutionary adaptations of the seahorse tail: investigating muscle architecture through in-silico modelling and robotics" royalsociety.org/blog/2025/05/e…

Yesterday I had great fun teaching hyperdimensional computing, the algebra of concepts, to biodesign students. Learn how to build a brain: Slides🛝: speakerdeck.com/michielstock/h… Notebook🎈: kermit-ugent.github.io/HDC_tutorial/ Repo🐙: github.com/Kermit-UGent/H…

New paper! 🚨 Is diversity and novelty the key to making machine learning open-ended, robust, and interpretable? Our latest paper reviews how #qualitydiversity algorithms can be used in the data-to-decision pipeline. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/M…

This work not only deepens our understanding of evolutionary biology but also paves the way for innovative robotic designs combining strength and flexibility, addressing current limitations in robotic manipulators. Thanks to @royalsociety!

A cross-disciplinary approach allowed us to systematically investigate these biological traits in a controlled, computational environment and validate them through a physical 3d-printed prototype.

Very glad to share our recent interdisciplinary work, which was published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface: "Evolutionary adaptations of the seahorse tail: investigating muscle architecture through in-silico modelling and robotics" royalsociety.org/blog/2025/05/e…

@Michielstock @chofski @simcastle Amazing!

Years ago, I got in touch with @chofski's group because I really enjoyed @simcastle's's paper on evotype engineering. I am thrilled to have participated in the follow-up paper that connects evolution, engineering, and biodesign! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Research equalizer coffee, especially @IDLabResearch AIRO where @MthDc_ & @adverleysen worked out an autonomous roboclooney serving coffee youtu.be/SV8wYMJe28E?fe…

Trots op (bio)roboticus @DriesMarz van @IDLabResearch AIRO die in @eos_wetenschap over ons onderzoek naar zeepaardrobots vertelt. Dit doen we samen met evolutionair bioloog @dadriaens

Already more than 20 teams participating in our #robotics 🤖 #cloth🧶 manipulation competition! Despite yesterday's deadline, we are still open for some last subscriptions More info at 🔔 airo.ugent.be/cloth_competit… Subscribe now & participate live at @ieee_ras_icra #ICRA2024 Japan!

@Michielstock Novelty search trigger 😉

I made artificial, vegan chicken flavor powder by mixing salts, amino acids and some seasonings. By changing the ratio of the ingredients, you can obtain beef or veal flavor. What other combinations could you discover in the "flavor space?" Lobster? Dinosaur?

Mijn thesisstudent Eva van vorig jaar en nieuwe collega-doctoraatsstudent zit in de finale van de ingenieursprijs voor de Vlaamse Scriptieprijs, willen jullie mee voor Eva stemmen? scriptieprijs.be/nieuws/stem-vo… @ugent @IDLabResearch @ELISUGent @ugent_fea

#GPT4 and real-time video feed for enhanced context awareness in social robots! 🤖👀 Explore the code and results in my latest post (and paper!): dev.to/giubots/implem… #Furhat @furhatrobotics #LLM #HRI #HumanRobotInteraction #UGent #DEVCommunity

👋 "Wat gebaar jij?": een samenwerking tussen @VGTCentrum en @IDLabResearch AIRO @UGent om zoekfunctionaliteit in het woordenboek Vlaamse Gebarentaal-Nederlands te ontwikkelen. 📣 Stem nu op dit project om dit mee mogelijk te maken! amai.vlaanderen/stemnu #AI @amaivlaanderen

Even after 4yrs of locomotion research, we keep getting surprised by how far we can push the limits of legged robots! We report a major update 🚀🤖 Extreme Parkour: extremely long & high jumps, ramp, handstand, etc. all with a single neural net! extreme-parkour.github.io 🧵(1/n)

Are you as enthusiastic about biomechanical designs as we are? Do you want to know how we can turn them into robots? Master's in biology? Together with #EvolutionaryBiologist @dadriaens we are looking for a biologist who can help @DriesMarz & me youtube.com/watch?v=7j6cb5… 1/2

Finally ready to share Biomaker CA, a Biome Maker project using Neural Cellular Automata. w/ @zzznah See live article google-research.github.io/self-organisin… (with lots of videos) and arxiv paper arxiv.org/abs/2307.09320. 1/N

At @IDLabResearch #AIRO we have not one, but two open PhD positions for #AI research within a societal context (CS education and sign language recognition), see both vacancies on our website airo.ugent.be