On June 24th 2019, the Defrost team organizes an onsite training session with tutorials on the open-source SoftRobot project. Led by Dr. Damien Marchal from CNRS, this session provides a… read more →
What is it? The SOFA Technical Committee focuses on technical discussions on current and future developments in SOFA. With the Technical Members of the consortium, the technical roadmap of the… read more →
The SOFA Consortium took part in the organization of the 8th SoFraSimS Conference about Medical Simulation. Every year, the conference welcomes about 400 medical staff, researchers and companies in the… read more →
Soft-robotics is an recent and growing field of research. It consists in using soft materials and deformable structures in order to build a new generation of robots. The scientific challenge… read more →
As in 2017, the SOFA community participated in the 2019 edition of the open-source conference FOSDEM. This year again, FOSDEM appeared as a major European event for open-source softwares where… read more →
The SOFA team is glad to announce the v18.12 release! What’s new? Breaking: DataEngine simplification Breaking: Mass homogenization Improved: Documentation Improved: Multithreading plugin Improved: SofaPython plugin Lots of cleans and… read more →
In January 2019, two PhD students from the Defrost team defended their PhD thesis in soft-robotics and simulation. Congratulations to Dr. Eulalie Coevoet and Dr. Zhongkai Zhang! Soft robotics draws… read more →
Dear SOFA community, 2018 is coming to its end but this year has been a very dense and productive year. Read below the 2018 highlights! Publications A first clue of… read more →
InfinyTech3D is a startup company created by Erik Pernod, an expert SOFA developer, in early 2018. Erik Pernod is a engineer with a field of expertise focused on simulation and… read more →
Last week, the 1st international SOFA Week took place in Strasbourg (France) and already appears to be a great success within the community. Open and free, this SOFA Week 2018… read more →