SocRob@Home will participate in RoboCup 2023

ISR | Lisboa's team of students and researchers has been selected to participate in RoboCup23, the world's largest robotics competition. With over 2500 participants and 40 thousand visitors, the event aims to promote interest and knowledge in robotics, mechatronics, AI, and more. The team is also gearing up for the National Robotics Festival and the euROBIN Hackathon. Carlos Azevedo, the team's captain, emphasizes the importance of these competitions for testing algorithms and preparing for the ultimate goal: winning the RoboCup. Partners and sponsors are welcome to support SocRob@Home's mission.

MEROP team will participate in 2024 space simulation

A group of researchers from ISR-Lisboa will be participating in the AMADEE-24 mission, a space simulation expedition to Mars. The mission will take place in Armenia for a month. The researchers, along with analogue astronauts, will be working on improving teleoperation of remote rovers and providing astronauts with troubleshooting tools. AMADEE-24 is organized by the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) and aims to optimize remote science support for planetary surface operations. This will be the 14th analogue mission to Mars organized by OeWF.

ISR | Lisboa integrates largest globally responsible AI consortia

Last Friday, January 20th, ten AI start-ups (including two unicorns), eight research centers, one Law firm, and Portuguese leaders in Fintech, Health, Tourism, Pharma, and Retail, got together at Unbabel to kick off the creation of the Centre for Responsible Artificial Intelligence ISR | Lisboa integrates this “Centre for Responsible AI “ which is one [...]

Untimely loss of Francisco Sepúlveda Teixeira

The ISR Community is mourning the profoundly sad loss of a close colleague and friend, Francisco Teixeira. "Dear Colleagues and Friends With great sadness, we announce the passing of our dear friend, Prof. Francisco Sepúlveda Teixeira, from the Mathematics Department of IST. Francisco was at all levels unique: an upright and kind human being, a [...]

Outreach activities with ISR-Lisboa researchers | NEI & FICA

From the end of the month of September to the middle of the month of October, our researchers have been very active in participating in outreach activities. These events represent a great opportunity to showcase our activities to different members of society and showcase some of the great things we are developing at ISR-Lisboa. European [...]

ISR-Lisboa at IST Taguspark campus 21st Anniversary

ISR-Lisboa was present at Técnico Taguspark campus Open day past November 6, to celebrate its 21st Anniversary. Joining public, professors, researchers, students and non-teaching staff, the event celebrated science performed by Técnico in multiple knowledge areas. The open day started at 10 a.m with several activities, with students groups exhibition stands and several open laboratories. [...]

Control interface developed by ISR researchers tested in a simulated mission to Mars

The control interface for teleoperated robots developed by ISR-Lisboa researchers is currently being tested in an integrated Mars analog field mission in the Negev Desert, Israel – the AMADEE-20 Mars simulation. In colaboration with ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, ISR-Lisboa is responsible for the robotic experiment known as Merop (Remote operation of planetary ground robots using [...]

European Researchers’ Night 2021

The Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR-Lisboa) was present in another edition of the European Researchers Night. Promoting initiatives that protect the environment, this year's theme was “Science for climate”. Within the scope, our researchers shared the project “Firefront” with an enthusiastic audience, targeting adults and kids. This project partners six portuguese entities: Instituto de [...]

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