At CRAS, our mission is to develop innovative robotic solutions for complex environments and multiple operations, including data gathering, inspection, mapping, surveillance, and intervention.
We work in four main areas of research: autonomous navigation; long-term deployments; sensing, mapping, and intervention; multiple platform operations.
Under the scientific coordination of Ana Pires, INESC TEC researcher, the SOE'24 event - Space, Ocean, and Earth Insights – returned to the stage of the Glex Summit, the world's largest summit in the field of space exploration. This year, the SOE focused on "Women in Exploration: Breaking Boundaries", challenging eight women to share their stories and how they have conquered the "unknown".
27th June 2024
A team of researchers from INESC TEC, FEUP and SYSTEC won, for the third consecutive time, one of the competitions of the National Robotics Festival, which took place in Paredes de Coura. A paper based on the winning team’s work, presenting a “complete robotics framework” was also acknowledged at an IEEE conference.
24th May 2024
The INESC TEC researcher was part of the group featuring 10 women acknowledged at the Women 3.0 Awards – a recognition that aims to award women considered "agents of change" in the most diverse sectors.
17th January 2024
The goal of the FLY.PT mobilising project was to combine land and air mobility. In this project, aimed at revitalising the aeronautical industry, INESC TEC developed a multimodal perception system and an algorithm that meets users' needs.
05th January 2024
A group of seven scientists spent six nights and seven days inside Gruta do Natal (Terceira Island, Azores), replicating the lunar environment. It was the first analog mission carried out in Portugal, and the goal was to turn the Azores into a training site for astronauts from all over the world. They called it the CAMões project (Caving Analog Mission for Ocean, Earth and Space Exploration). INESC TEC, together with the Associação Os Montanheiros, led and organised this project from the beginning; not only because the superior/leader of the mission is a researcher at the institution, Ana Pires, but also because if featured technology from various areas of the Institute, tested and applied to a great mission: to familiarise the younger generations with STEAM (Science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics).
18th December 2023
