José Santos-Victor elected Técnico Distinguished Professor
Professor José Alberto Santos-Victor has been named Distinguished Professor of Instituto Superior Técnico in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the development and progress of the institution and the national and international scientific community. His work is an inspiration to the Técnico community, spanning all areas of academic activity: research, teaching, knowledge dissemination and valorisation, scientific leadership, and institutional service—always upholding the highest standards.
SocRob@Home Team Secures 3rd Place at RoboCup 2024
SocRob@Home achieved third place at RoboCup 2024, one of the world’s largest robotics and AI competitions. Competing against 17 teams from top universities such as Tsinghua, EPFL, and institutions like SoftBank Robotics, SocRob@Home showcased their expertise.
Luís Vidigal Award 2018
The Luís Vidigal Prize awards, every year, a cash sum and recognition to the student author whose thesis gathers the best scientific, innovation and quality characteristics. João Domingos, tutored by Professor João Xavier, has won the 2018 edition for his Master’s thesis: “A Step Towards Distributed Control of Massive-scale Networks.” The award was announced at the opening […]
AHA Project – Using games to improve health
In an increasingly aged society, how can technology help combat a sedentary lifestyle? Serious games are tasks built to be a ludic activity while also being aimed at a process of physical rehabilitation. When motivated by the score and distracted by the game the user ends up experiencing as much physical effort as they would […]
How robot competitions are shaping academia
Robot competitions seem to be a growing event that increasingly includes more and more people. At ISR-Lisboa this kind of competition is becoming a staple, particularly with researchers at the Mobile Robotics Lab. Professor Pedro Lima, from IRSg, explained some of the reasons why competing with robot technology might be such a good pairing with […]
IBM Scientific Award 2015
Ricardo Cabral was awarded the IBM Scientific Prize 2015 for his PhD thesis entitled “Unifying Low-rank Models for Visual Learning.” The thesis was supervised by Professors João Paulo Costeira (SIPg), Alexandre Bernardino (VisLab) and Fernando de la Torre (CMU) . The IBM Scientific prize is awarded every year in Portugal and it is highly prestigious […]
