Cédric Girerd

CNRS Researcher

LIRMM, Montpellier, France

👋 Welcome!
I am a CNRS Researcher in Robotics.
I work in the DEXTER Team at LIRMM in Montpellier, France.
My group focuses on the design and control of continuum, soft and inflatable robots for medical and industrial applications.

📢 Latest News

• Mar 3, 2025: Welcome to the lab, Marouane!

• Feb 17, 2025: Welcome to the lab, Juliana!

• Dec 16, 2024: Open Master 2 / Engineer internship position

• Sep 23, 2024: Open PhD Position in Soft and Inflatable Robotics

• Sep 23, 2024: Presentation of our paper at ICRA@40

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📰 Latest Publications

Ayush Giri, Cédric Girerd, Jacobo Cervera-Torralba, Michael T. Tolley, Tania K. Morimoto (2025). InchIGRAB: An Inchworm-Inspired Guided Retraction and Bending Device for Vine Robots During Colonoscopy. TMECH.

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Camille Benoist, Cédric Girerd, Nabil Zemiti, Philippe Poignet, Pierre Berthey-Rayne (2024). Tendon-Driven vs Rod-Driven Continuum Robots: A Bench Test Evaluation. In CRAS.

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Jui-Te Lin, Cédric Girerd, Benjamin T. Ostrander, Parsa Molaei, Hunter B. Gilbert, Philip A. Weissbrod, John T. Hwang, Tania K. Morimoto (2024). Closing the Loop on Concentric Tube Robot Design: A Case Study on Micro-Laryngeal Surgery. TBME.

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Cédric Girerd, Anna Alvarez, Elliot W. Hawkes, Tania K. Morimoto (2024). Material Scrunching Enables Working Channels in Miniaturized Vine-Inspired Robots. TRO.

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Ryan C. Dunn, Anugrah Jo Joshy, Jui-Te Lin, Cédric Girerd, Tania K. Morimoto, John T. Hwang (2023). Scalable enforcement of geometric non-interference constraints for gradient-based optimization. Optim Eng.

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🏷️ Research topics

Anr-Jcjc-Extract Concentric Tube Robots Continuum Robots Follow-the-Leader Deployment SLAM-Based Deployment Soft Robots Vine Growing Robots Wireless Sensors