Júlia Borràs Sol

Jan. 2018 - Present: Associate researcher at IRI, Barcelona, working at the ERC advanced grant CLOTHILDE.
May 2014: Best Reviewer Award at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
Feb. 2014 - Dec.2017: Researcher at High Perfomance Humanoid Technologies Lab (H2T), Karlsruhe Institue of Technology.
Nov. 2011- Jul. 2013: Researcher at Yale University, as a research associate at the GrabLab.
May 2011: PhD on Robot Kinematics: "Singularity-invariant leg rearrangements in Stewart-Gough platforms", advisor: Federico Thomas.
2007-2011:PhD Student at Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI), (CSIC-UPC).
2006:Technical Engineering Degree in Computer Science.
2004: Degree in Mathematics  

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During my PhD, I got experience working on parallel manipulators and their geometric design. For more information about applications and prototypes, visit IRI's Laboratory of Parallel Robots. Visit the Thesis section for a summary of my PhD. Now you can download my thesis here!

My first postdoc, at the GrabLab, Yale University, I applied my knowledge about parallel robots to the kinetostatics of hands holding objects with precision grasps, that have similar structure to a parallel manipulator. For hands, the legs are the fingers and the platform the object being manipulated.

During my postdoc at the High Perfomance Humanoid Technologies Lab (H2T), I worked on several approaches to transfer properties of grasping to whole-body support poses using multi-contacts, that share similar structure than a hand holding an object, in this case, the hand is the robot and the object is the environment. I also worked on innovative gripper designs.

In 2018 I returned to IRI, and I have been working on cloth manipulation focusing on grasping, scene state estimation and planning. In 2019 I won the Ramon y Cajal scholarship and in summer 2020 I started my new position as a permanent research assistant.