SenseSeat is an egg-shaped chair that isolates you from your surroundings in an immersive experience. It can lean back, change colours, play stereo music or even alter the temperature around you. Developed at M-ITI the currently operational chair sits at the Cristiano Ronaldo hotel in Madeira. From the experience of developing SenseSeat and the [...]
The Luís Vidigal Prize awards, every year, a cash sum and recognition to the student author whose thesis gathers the best scientific, innovation and quality characteristics. João Domingos, tutored by Professor João Xavier, has won the 2018 edition for his Master's thesis: “A Step Towards Distributed Control of Massive-scale Networks.” The award was announced at the opening [...]
From February 5 to 8, the third local tournament of the European Robotics League (ERL) Consumer Service Robots - 2018/19 season, took place at the ISRoboNet@Home Test Bed, an infrastructure at ISR|Lisboa, built to benchmark domestic robot functionalities and tasks. ERL Consumer is one of the four challenges of the European Robotics League, within the frame [...]
The Institute for Systems and Robotics-Lisbon stands, today, on 26 years of achievements. All the projects, students, dreams and goals that have come by the North Tower of Alameda, culminate in the high-quality research done today and the multicultural environment of challenging practices and intellectual stimulation. In this year to come, ISR|Lisboa will continue on, [...]
Year at a glance As 2018 comes to an end it's time to look back on a full year of intensive research, plenty of activities and events, a great number of achievements and publications and thousands of interactions with the general public. An extended thank you to those who most regularly welcomed the students who [...]
Winter Solstice Celebrations 2018 On the 17th of December ISR celebrated an early solstice with a dynamic gathering, which included a gift exchange, plenty of socialization and a much-awaited surprise activity. ISR members were present in weight and had to overcome a series of challenges in the moulds of an entertaining "escape game", a trial only surpassed [...]
We are still trying to understand exactly how the human brain works. In conditions such as epilepsy, in which people suffer from sudden attacks (which can imply a loss of consciousness) what happens in the human brain to cause these events is still relatively unknown. The goal of better understanding these factors to better [...]
The Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) is a 40-year-old conference, considered nowadays as the largest and most influential in Artificial Intelligence, with usual participation numbers in the orders of the thousands. With 5,000 registered participants in 2016 and 8,000 in 2017, the exponential interest towards the field is making it a very [...]
On Friday the 29th of September, Antonio Tajani, the President of the European Parliament visited ISR-Lisboa to meet the researchers and robot of the MOnarCH project (coordinated by João Sequeira). After watching a news report on the project the President's curiosity was sparked because of how the project focused on social robotics by using [...]
At fifteen years old Cláudia Soares had her professional life all planned out. She knew she wanted to dedicate her time to two very different fields. Her first big disappointment came when she realized that in school she was required to reduce her preferences and pick a field of studies. But instead of giving up [...]
