A full room in Porto: what TORNADO learned at ADRF26 | 14 October 2026
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TORNADO at ADRF26: When Robots Learn to Interact | 13-14 October 2026
Wednesday 14 October, TORNADO opens its interactive workshop at the AI, Data and Robotics Forum. It asks how a robot that keeps learning can still
One robot, one apple, three days in Pilsen
At TORNADO’s 3rd Plenary Meeting, the first robot prototypes met the software meant to make them smart, and the consortium set them a deceptively simple
When nothing holds its shape, collaboration takes shape | 17 September 2026
A rope. A bedsheet. A suitcase on a conveyor belt. A mooring line. A wind turbine blade. A head of lettuce. Human tissue… None of
Introducing the Almanac: TORNADO’s new Knowledge Hub for AI-Driven Robotic Manipulation
TORNADO has launched the Almanac, a dedicated digital hub tracking the latest breakthroughs in AI-powered robotic manipulation, now live at almanac.tornado-horizon.eu. Built as the project’s
May 5-6, 2026 | TORNADO’s Second Plenary Meeting Brings the Consortium Together in Barcelona
The TORNADO project consortium gathered for its Second Plenary Meeting (PM2) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain. The two-day event brought
May 4-5, 2026 | Swiss Biotech Day 2026? We were there!
We are proud to share that IRCCS San Raffaele Roma took part in the Swiss Biotech Day 2026 in Basel, one of the leading global
April 16, 2026 | Foundation Models in Robotics: A Comprehensive Review of Methods, Models, Datasets, Challenges and Future Research Directions
We are pleased to share our latest work, “Foundation Models in Robotics: A Comprehensive Review of Methods, Models, Datasets, Challenges and Future Research Directions,” authored
April 16, 2026 | At Future Ready 2026: NSBproject represents the consortium in Brussels
Brussels, 16 April 2026 The TORNADO project was represented today at Future Ready 2026, the annual flagship event organised by ADRA, the AI, Data and Robotics
February 2, 2026 | TORNADO at MMAD 2026: Advancing Few-Shot Defect Detection
We are pleased to share that Aggelos Psiris, PhD Candidate and Research Associate at Harokopio University of Athens, represented the TORNADO project at the Multimodal
September 17-18, 2025 | First Plenary Meeting of the TORNADO EU Project successfully held in Rome
The first plenary meeting and general assembly of the TORNADO project took place at IRCCS San Raffaele in Rome in September 17-18, 2025. Over two
September 17-18, 2025 | From Europe to Italy: Cognitive Robots and Generative AI
PRESS RELEASE The first Plenary Meeting and General Assembly of the European project TORNADO (foundation models for robots that handle small, soft and deformable objects)
September 1, 2025 | A Human-in-The-Loop Approach to Robot Action Replanning Through LLM Common-Sense Reasoning
A Human-in-the-loop Approach to Robot Action Replanning through LLM Common-Sense Reasoning Elena Merlo, Marta Lagomarsino, and Arash Ajoudani. This work was supported by the European
August 5, 2025 | New publication on Hand Gesture Recognition
M. Linardakis, I. Varlamis and G. Th. Papadopoulos, “Survey on Hand Gesture Recognition From Visual Input”, IEEE Access, 2025. Hand gesture recognition has become an
June 4-6, 2025 | TORNADO at the EEITE 2025 Conference in Chania, Greece
Special Session: “Recent advancements in robotic perception, learning, interaction, communication, and control technologies” – Aimed to boost the potential for collaborations and clustering with existing
May 5, 2025 | TORNADO presented at Santa Clara University, Silicon Valley
On May 5th, 2025, Dr. Georgios Th. Papadopoulos was invited to give a talk at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Santa Clara
April 8-10, 2025 | Inspiring Future Innovators: TORNADO at Epilego Charokopio 2025
On April 8th and 10th, TORNADO’s HUA team proudly took part in the Epilego Charokopio 2025 public event, organized by the Career Office of Harokopio
March 17, 2025 | New Scientific Publication: Information-Theoretic Detection of Bimanual Interactions for Dual-Arm Robot Plan Generation
Guess what? The TORNADO project is making waves again with another scientific publication! Our brilliant partners at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) have been contributing
February 14, 2025 | TORNADO Paper submitted to EEITE 2025 Conference!
We’ve got an exciting news! A paper about TORNADO has just been submitted to the EEITE 2025 conference! In this paper, titled “TORNADO: Foundation Models
January 2025 | Our First Scientific Publication! Exploiting Information Theory for Intuitive Robot Programming of Manual Activities
Published on IEEE Transactions on Robotics. We are excited to announce the first scientific publication from the TORNADO project, a key milestone since the project’s
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