Using virtual reality to learn about the brain and for patient rehabilitation
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of mortality worldwide, including neurological conditions and cerebrovascular diseases. It is expected that by 2025, 1.5 million European people will suffer a stroke each year, making the event of a stroke a major cause of disability worldwide. That’s why ISR […]
Newest Marie Curie Fellow – BIGMATH Project
In an era in which Big Data is booming, so are challenges that can only be surpassed with strong theoretical and practical skills. BIGMATH – INNOVATIVE TRAINING NETWORK (ITN) ON BIG Data challenges for MATHematics is an EU funded project that aims to provide a group of young mathematicians with up-to-date training and knowledge for […]
Feedbot, a symbiotic robotic arm for meal assistance
Many different causes can lead someone to be motion impaired. Manuel Marques is a researcher in Computer Vision who suffers from cerebral palsy. For him and his colleagues, his lack of movement control served as inspiration for a robotic aid, since involuntary movements of his arms make it very difficult for him to feed […]
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 […]
INSIDE Project – Robots in Health
The ongoing project INSIDE is developing solutions from research to use in real-world interaction scenarios. The initiative was developed from a collaborative effort with the Computer Science Department at CMU and several Portuguese research institutions and companies and one hospital. “The hospital had already setup ongoing sessions, in which the children, accompanied by their parents […]
ACTICIPATE studies humans to design robots
ACTICIPATE is a project by Mirko Rakovic & José Santos-Victor inserted in the H2020 and Marie Curie programs, that’s intended to last 15 months, from June 2017 until August of 2018. Focusing on tasks that require motion, the research is based on examining nonverbal communication, specifically handshakes and other movements of the arms, as well […]
FUSION vehicle merges academia and the industry
Aimed at the world market, FUSION is an innovative underwater vehicle produced by SRS (Strategic Robot Systems) together with several companies that develop its specialized parts. But its a team from ISR that is responsible for the development of its system of navigation and control, the equivalent to the “intelligence” of the miniaturized submarine, that […]
The Walkbot could help improve the floor you walk on
TecInnov is a competition that aims to support the development of innovative ideas from students and researchers at Instituto Superior Técnico. This annual initiative is a partnership with Tales, a European company that works in several areas (defense, mobility, transportation and information systems) and it’s also where the idea for Walkbot was born. Walkbot is […]
New equipment provides platform for collaboration
A brand new equipment and setup are now available to the researchers of ISR-Lisboa. An electroencephalogram, or EEG equipment, is a type of electrophysiological monitor that, by use of a cap with electrodes positioned in the scalp, allows the record of electric activity in the brain. Over a long period of time, and with […]
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 […]
