Reymond Clavel
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| Born | 1950-06-23 Fribourg (Switzerland) |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Fields | robotics, micro-robotics and high precision mechanisms. |
| Institutions | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
| Alma mater | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
| Doctoral advisor | Professor Christof Burckhardt |
| Known for | Delta robot |
| Notable awards | JIRA AWARD (1989) |
Reymond Clavel (born June 23, 1950) is director of the Laboratoire de Systèmes Robotiques 2 (LSRO2) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. He is one of the pioneers in the development of parallel robots, and the inventor of the notable Delta robot. His interest in research and his teaching are related mostly to robotics, micro-robotics and high precision mechanisms. His main domains of expertise are:
Under his leading, the research in his laboratory has resulted in (February 2010):
Reymond Clavel obtained his degree in mechanical engineering at the Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 1973. After nine years of gathered experience in industrial plants at Hermes Precisa International (research and development), he was appointed professor at the EPFL, where he obtained his PhD degree in parallel robotics in 1991. His present research topics are parallel robotics, high speed and high precision robotics, medical and surgical robotics applications, surgical instrumentation and precision mechanisms. Reymond Clavel’s research successes in parallel and industrial robotics received worldwide special mentions.
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