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ROBIS is now the largest robotics unit in the North of the country.
01st February 2012
The Fair of the Sea that took place between 16th and 19th June at the Exponor (Matosinhos) was chosen for the signing of the partnership agreement between INESC Porto and the Naval Research Centre of the Portuguese Navy. This partnership between the two institutions will aim to join synergies to become leaders in the maritime economy.
05th July 2011
INESC Port and ISEP (Higher Engineering Institute in Porto) formalised the merger of their robotics groups - The Robotics and Intelligent Systems Unit (ROBIS) and the Autonomous Systems Laboratory (LSA) on 16th February 2011.
02nd March 2011
In this year, so notoriously marked by the economic crisis, INESC Porto has increased its budget from 10 to 12.5 million Euros. However, this is actually one of the most conservative budgets so far: close to 90% of the predicted income has been contractually guaranteed since the beginning of the year. With his feet firmly on the ground the INESC Porto President admits that despite INESC Porto having practically doubled in size over the last five years, “this does not mean an obsession with records”. José Manuel Mendonça explains that a group effort from all of the collaborators will be necessary to maintain this sustainable growth and he recognises that guaranteeing a high level of quality while growing so rapidly will be an enormous challenge.
10th February 2011
A consortium of Brazilian companies, through the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Brazil), signed a three-year contract with INESC Porto for the development of an autonomous underwater robot capable of monitoring dam structures and silting in the basins with high precision. The underwater robot will automatically collect information, thus making it possible to anticipate the detection of anomalies and to analyze the level of risk in dams with more precision and lower costs comparatively to the traditional processes.
02nd November 2010