Two ISR Teams Qualify for RoboCup 2026

The SocRob@Home project is bringing not one but two teams to RoboCup 2026, taking place from June 30 to July 6 in Incheon, South Korea. It will be the first time the competition, known as the “world’s premier robotics”, has ever been held in Asia

New Project will Advance BCI in Space

The NEURONAUT project, led by researchers at ISR-Lisboa, has been selected as one of the winning proposals of the 2025 edition of PROSSE (PROdex for Science in Space Exploration). The initiative, promoted by the Portuguese Space Agency, supports scientific projects that strengthen Portugal’s role in the field of space exploration. Each selected project will receive €50,000 in funding.

ISR-Lisboa Joins EU Project to Clean Up Space

Space debris, from old satellites to rocket fragments, is becoming one of the greatest challenges for the future of space exploration. To address this growing threat, ISR-Lisboa is proud to join an international research consortium developing an innovative, nature-inspired solution: gecko-based adhesion technology for capturing and removing orbital debris.

New Projects in Healthcare Sector

This image shows a blue xray image of a person's chest - it shows the ribs, the faint outline of a heart, and other organs. The image features yellow squares surrounding the organs (left lung, trachea, right lung, heart, diaphragm) - each of them feature labels such as: normal, midline, normal size. There is text in the right bottom corner in white which states 'no abnormalities detected'.

ISR-Lisboa secured funding for three cutting-edge projects in the healthcare sector, which harness the power of AI and multimodal data integration.

Doctoral Network project IQ-BRAIN wins Horizon Europe Funding

IQ-BRAIN will be implemented by a leading consortium of carefully selected international partners with complementary expertise and skills in both qMRI and AI research as well as in training of researchers. The project will be coordinated by Prof. Jan Sijbers of the University of Antwerp and relies on intensive collaboration between twelve beneficiaries and seven associated partners, from academia to hospitals and industry, spanning a total of six countries.

ISR Project Funded to Detect Mars Craters Using AI

PT Space announced the winners of the 2024 PROSSE initiative and one of the selected projects, UNFORSEEN, iwas composed by ISR|Lisboa researchers. It aims to revolutionize crater detection on Mars using unsupervised deep learning, eliminating the need for extensive annotated data. Principal Investigator Margarida Silveira highlighted the significance of craters for understanding Mars’ geology.

MEROP team with the AMADEE-24 Mars Mission Simulation

The AMADEE-24 Mars mission simulation has been taking place in Armenia, managed by the Austrian Space Forum and hosted by the Armenia Aerospace Agency. A small field crew of highly trained analog astronauts conducted experiments preparing for future human and robotic Mars exploration missions.

MEROP team will participate in 2024 space simulation

A group of researchers from ISR-Lisboa will be participating in the AMADEE-24 mission, a space simulation expedition to Mars. The mission will take place in Armenia for a month. The researchers, along with analogue astronauts, will be working on improving teleoperation of remote rovers and providing astronauts with troubleshooting tools. AMADEE-24 is organized by the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) and aims to optimize remote science support for planetary surface operations. This will be the 14th analogue mission to Mars organized by OeWF.

ISR | Lisboa integrates largest globally responsible AI consortia

Last Friday, January 20th, ten AI start-ups (including two unicorns), eight research centers, one Law firm, and Portuguese leaders in Fintech, Health, Tourism, Pharma, and Retail, got together at Unbabel to kick off the creation of the Centre for Responsible Artificial Intelligence ISR | Lisboa integrates this “Centre for Responsible AI “ which is one […]

RePAIR Project Meeting

  Can robots be at the service of culture? When recovering artefacts at excavation sites, such as vases, amphorae, and frescoes, it is very common for them to be damaged by time. The EU-funded project RePAIR aims to facilitate this reconstruction process to bring ancient artworks back to life. A group of researchers from the […]