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 [...]

We competed in the second edition of the Smart City Robotics Challenge (SciRoc) last September and finished in second in the Coffee Shop episode. Congratulations SocRob@Home! For this specific research challenge, under this year's theme “Smart Inclusion”, each team robot was required to recognize and report the status of all tables inside the shop, to [...]

The 2021 LARSyS Annual Meeting was a success! This two-day reunion gathered researchers from ISR, IN+, ITI and MARETEC promoting interdisciplinary discussions about current and future challenges and opportunities. Organized in a hybrid format, this year's event marked the cautious return to in-person activities. The Associate Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems (LARSyS) brings together [...]

On monday June 8th, at 5 PM, an ISR-Lisboa seminar occurred with several invited guests, on the topic of high-growth entrepreneurship fuelled by deep-tech, hosted together with Armilar Ventures. Armilar Venture Partners is Portugal’s leading venture capital funds manager and a deep-tech investor in ICT, HealthTech and CleanTech, with a focus on early-stage technology-based [...]

When the new coronavirus pandemic arrived, no one was really prepared. At ISR-Lisboa, we started brainstorming solutions almost immediately after the virus reached Portugal and searching for ways to contribute. One of the first hypotheses was to produce equipment for health staff, who were lacking in such important protections as masks, gloves, and visors. By [...]

Dear ISR community members, We have all endured this period of confinement that managed to reduce the risk of infection and virus propagation. The time has now come to restart our activities with physical presence at ISR. As the virus did not disappear we have to take several precautions as detailed in the ISR Deconfinement [...]

Around every six weeks researcher John van Opstal, from Radboud University in Holland, visits Lisbon to work with a team at ISR|Lisboa. A Professor of Biophysics and Director of the Donders Centre for Neuroscience, van Opstal has become a very active collaborator of ISR. It all began when J. van Opstal was looking for an [...]

Even though it’s a tremendously inhospitable environment to humans, space exploration continuously pushes the boundaries of humanity’s reach. When it comes to protecting humans from the harsh conditions of such environments robotic platforms can be a great asset to minimize exposure, much like it’s done on Earth’s most remote locations. Using a mobile robot for [...]