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The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) approved five INESC TEC projects under the "RESEARCH FOR COVID-19" financing line, with the Institute as the applicant entity in three of said projects - and a total of €85M funding. These initiatives will focus on the development of solutions to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
27th April 2020
RADAR – an Autonomous Robot for Disinfection at Hospitals - is one of INESC TEC's projects approved by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) within the scope of the exclusive line of financing to address the Covid-19 pandemic. The autonomous robot developed by the Centre for Robotics in Industry and Intelligent Systems (CRIIS) will help disinfecting rooms at hospital units, through sensors and UV lamps.
24th April 2020
CPPS 101 - Cyber Physical Production Systems 101 - is the name of the project that aims to improve the knowledge about cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) and smart manufacturing. The project was launched within the scope of EIT Manufacturing, an Innovation Community part of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), and is led by INESC TEC through the Centre for Industrial Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CRIIS).
23rd April 2020
The kick-off online meeting of the Mirrorlabs project took place on March 24. This project aims to create a software architecture that facilitates the integration of virtual and augmented reality and robots. INESC TEC is one of the project’s partners, through the Centre for Robotics in Industry and Intelligent Systems (CRIIS) and the Centre for Enterprise Engineering Systems (CESE).
20th April 2020
Determining water stress in plants is a critical task for the optimisation of water-based agricultural inputs and contributes to more sustainable and efficient processes. With this market need in mind, INESC TEC developed a technology capable of mapping the water distribution in the vegetation. The innovation called Water Percept is among the three finalists of the «Entrepreneurship and Innovation" award from Crédito Agrícola, in the "Production, Transformation and Commercialisation" category.
18th December 2019
The researchers of INESC TEC’s Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CRIIS) alongside the Portuguese company TALUS developed a painting robot that collaborates with humans.
31st October 2019
On 8 July, INESC TEC participated in the 16th COTEC Innovation Summit, with the theme "Leading 4.0 – Highway to manufacture value with people and intelligent machines”.
19th July 2019
On May 10, Luís Santos, Pranjali Shinde and Jorge Mendes, collaborators of INESC TEC’s Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CRIIS), participated in an event designed to high school students, in order to present the work of the University, namely in the application of technology in real contexts.
18th June 2019
Under the approach to the Industry sector, INESC TEC was present on the first edition of 360 TECH INDUSTRY – International Trade Fair of Industry 4.0, Robotics, Automation and Composites, which took place between 16 and 18 May at Exponor, in Porto.
18th June 2019
iiLab’s mission is to demonstrate and to disclose concepts and advanced technologies for the digitalisation of production including robotics, automation, simulation, virtual and augmented reality, and decision support and cyber-physical systems.
13th June 2019
Articles of researchers of INESC TEC’s Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems won the Industrial Robot Best Paper Award, which was promoted at the ICARSC’2019 conference.
05th June 2019
This event, promoted by the Portuguese Robotics Society, aimed at promoting Science and Technology among young people, professors and researchers, as well as everyone interested in the area, through competitions of autonomous robots.
03rd May 2019