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Last Wednesday 26th, UC3M Robotics Lab donated 280 tablets left over from the IROS2018 international congress held between 1st and 5th October 2018. This donation took place in a meeting between the Robotics Lab and the association receiving the donation, RECUMADRID, in which a document of cession was signed.

RECUMADRID is a member of AERESS, the Spanish Association of Social and Solidarity Economy Waste Pickers, dedicated to the social and labour insertion and training of people in situations of social vulnerability, which offers services in the environmental field, specifically in the

Six researchers of the Center for Automation and Robotics (CAR) among the 5,000 most-cited in Spain, according to CSIC ranking. According to 2022 edition of the Ranking of Scientists in Spain—ranking of Spanish researchers, researchers working in Spanish Institutions (Spain) and Spaniards working abroad according to their Google Scholar Citations public profile.

Members of CAR (CSIC-UPM) in the list are Angela María Ribeiro Seijas, Antonio Ramón Jiménez Ruiz, Eduardo Rocón de Lima, Pascual Campoy Cervera, Rodolfo Haber Guerra and Pablo González de Santos.

On October 6 th 2021, Claudio Rossi and Santiago Martinez de la casa participated, as speakers, in the 3rd Spanish-Swiss Meeting on Innovation under the title “Quo Vadis Cobot?”, organised by the Swiss Embassy, which brought together international experts from the robotics sector.

The kick-off meeting of the IROPER project was held online January 18 th. The three-year project is funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Proyectos de I+D+i en líneas estratégicas, PLEC2021-007819) and is coordinated by Carlos Balaguer. Project members include Luis Moreno and Miguel Ángel Salichs (Robotics Lab). The other partners participating in the project are PAL Robotics and ASISPA.

The main objective of this proposal is the development of the new integrated paradigm of intelligent robotic assistant for people with different needs such as elderly, disabled, injured persons with

Umbria Digital Data DIH and RoboCity2030 have reached a framework collaboration agreement between the two entities. The purpose of this MOU is to establish a basis for future mutually beneficial collaborative efforts.

Researcher Concha Monje explains in the video the reasons that led to leave TEO, the most advanced Spanish humanoid robot, naked. TEO, the humanoid developed at UC3M’s Robotics Lab, stars in this short film produced by ROS Film Festival. “TEO, the naked robot” was presented to the public at the 4th edition of the international robotics-themed short film festival held in Alicante.

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The UAH has collaborated with the international market analyst NielsenIQ through an Artificial Intelligence project, devising a system capable of solving questions through photographs. NielsenIQ is a leading American company in its sector that works with auditors dedicated to market research in large supermarkets. Thus, the RobeSafe research group, which is part of the UAH Department of Electronics, and led by Professor Luis M. Bergasa together with student Miguel E. Ortiz, has collaborated with this company throughout 2020 by developing a new VQA (Visual Question Answering) system that automatically answers,

The SENER Foundation has awarded the Best Doctoral Thesis Award to Jorge Muñoz, PhD from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and author of the thesis entitled Robust control strategies based on fractional calculus for robotic platforms. The work was supervised by Concepción Alicia Monje and Carlos Balaguer. The prize is endowed with 12,000 euros for the author of the thesis and 3,000 euros to be shared among the thesis supervisors.

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ROMERIN is a complex robot formed by four modular legs that can be considered as single robots or modules. Each leg disposes of a microcontroller, where the information about itself is contained and the low level control is implemented. An active suction cup is mounted as the end-effector of each module, allowing the robot to climb. From the control system side, it is possible to contact all these legs (whose name is unique) and send commands to them in order to carry out a task.

Body control is an essential piece

We are proud to announce a special issue in Sensors:

Frontiers in Mobile Robot Navigation
Editor: Ramón Barber

The objective of this Special Issue is to collect current and future trends in robot navigation in all research areas and levels.

Deadline: 31/5/2022.

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