Mathieu De Coster

Talking about airo-mono at the Research Software Engineering day 2025

05 December 2025

I presented airo-mono last week at the Research Software Engineering day 2025 in Heverlee (Leuven, Belgium).

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World premiere: search functionality for the Flemish Sign Language dictionary

26 November 2025

Flemish Sign Language (VGT) is used daily by thousands of people in Flanders (Belgium). The Flemish Sign Language dictionary records over 11,000 signs of the VGT dictionary. In a world first, VGTC and IDLab-AIRO (UGent-imec) have introduced search functionality for this dictionary.

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The future of robotics will be Rusty

24 November 2025

When we talk about deploying robots into people's homes (they're coming), reliability is a strict requirement. A household robot has to operate safely. At all times. This is why Rust is the ideal language for the future of robotics.

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Streamlining Robotics Projects: Why You Might Want to Try airo-mono

17 April 2025

In the world of robotics, the Robot Operating System (ROS) is both loved and hated. On one hand, its extensive ecosystem offers libraries for almost any task imaginable. On the other hand, installation can be a hassle, performance with default settings may be lacking, and for many projects, ROS can introduce unnecessary complexity when a single process would suffice.

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Quality of Life with SSH

11 March 2025

As part of my day job, I've been working more than usually with SSH, working with remote connections to robots and creating SSH tunnels to handle (semi-)complex networking set-ups. I kept forgetting certain parts of my set-up every time I had to do this again, so I took some notes and decided to share them here.

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