The Walkbot could help improve the floor you walk on

TecInnov is a competition that aims to support the development of innovative ideas from students and researchers at Instituto Superior Técnico. This annual initiative is a partnership with Tales, a European company that works in several areas (defense, mobility, transportation and information systems) and it's also where the idea for Walkbot was born. Walkbot is [...]

New equipment provides platform for collaboration

  A brand new equipment and setup are now available to the researchers of ISR-Lisboa. An electroencephalogram, or EEG equipment, is a type of electrophysiological monitor that, by use of a cap with electrodes positioned in the scalp, allows the record of electric activity in the brain. Over a long period of time, and with [...]

How robot competitions are shaping academia

Robot competitions seem to be a growing event that increasingly includes more and more people. At ISR-Lisboa this kind of competition is becoming a staple, particularly with researchers at the Mobile Robotics Lab. Professor Pedro Lima, from IRSg, explained some of the reasons why competing with robot technology might be such a good pairing with [...]

A successful end to the WiMUST project

WiMUST, or Widely scalable Mobile Underwater Sonar Technology, is a project funded by the EU H2020 program, which started in 2015 and is now on its final stage. Besides several European partners from Italy, Germany, Holand, France and the UK, it features three Portuguese partners: Geosurveys of Aveiro, Cintal of University of Algarve and Instituto [...]

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