Multi-Robot Cognitive Systems Operating in Hospitals
Start year: 2013 - End year: 2016
Funder: EU 7th Framework Programme
The MOnarCH project focus is on social robotics using networked heterogeneous robots and sensors to interact with children, staff, and visitors, engaging in edutainment activities in the pediatric infirmary at the Portuguese Oncology Institute at Lisbon...
Robotic system with intelligent vision and control for tunnel...
Start year: 2013 - End year: 2016
Funder: EU 7th Framework Programme
ROBOSPECT, driven by the tunnel inspection industry, adapts and integrates recent research results in intelligent control in robotics, computer vision tailored with semisupervised and active continuous learning and sensing, in an innovative, integrated,...
PRESSMATIC
Start year: 2013 - End year: 2016
Funder: Foundation UNIVERSIA
PRESSMATIC is a project that aims to create a portable electromechanical device that is able to assist people whose manual dexterity has been impaired for any reason (illness, amputation, paralysis, etc.), automatically performing the function usually...
Appications of social robots
Start year: 2012 - End year: 2015
Funder: MINISTERIO DE CIENCIA E...
This Project is focused on the development of social robots. Several
scientific and technological themes of special interest for the
development of social robots are investigated. Those themes are, among
others, the specific design of this kind of...
Robotic cognitive assistant for persons with special needs
Start year: 2011 - End year: 2013
Funder: CICYT
The objective is the development of a new concept of assistential domestic robotic environment that will allow people with special needs to increase their capacity of manipulating different objects and to increase their cognitive and haptics abilities.
Safe and multimodal cooperation with robotic assistants for people...
Start year: 2011 - End year: 2012
Funder: Comunidad de Madrid - UC3M
A new kind of robotics empowered living facilities must provide services to cover sensory, communications and power requirements of the robotic devices operating inside. Ideally these robots can operate smartly in unstructured indoor environments.
Implementation of a decision making system in the robot Maggie
Start year: 2011 - End year: 2012
Funder: Comunidad de Madrid
This project is focused on the implementation of a bio-inspired architecture for an autonomous and social robot. This architecture is based on the original one developed by other members of the Robotics Lab: the AD (automatic/deliberative) architecture....
Learning and planning dexterous manipulation techniques for mobile...
Start year: 2011 - End year: 2013
Funder: CICYT
This project is focused on researching about learning techniques and manipulation of objects and the development of a set arm-hand that allows robots to get progressively closer to handling capacities offered by the arm-hand set of human beings.