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The “JdeRobot-Universidad Rey Juan Carlos” organization has been
selected for the Google Summer of Code program. 6 students around the
world have been paid by Google in 2018 to be software developers into
the JdeRobot open source project for robotics and computer vision.

The “ARViz: Augmented Reality Visualizer for ROS2” project, from the
Robotics Group at URJC, has been selected inside the ROSin european
project as a Focused Technical Project (Project duration: 12 Months,
Project budget: € 91 125 | ROSIN grant: € 30 375). In this project,
Augmented Reality (AR) is applied in the debugging and monitoring of
sensory and internal information of a robot. Equipped with an AR
device (we propose the Microsoft Hololens), we will be able to see
reality and integrate in it the information of the robot with spatial
meaning. We use ROS2, which provides real

Concha Monje (UC3M) has been endowed with the Third Woman and Technology award by Fundación Orange. You can see the whole info in this link.

POTATO is a low cost robot developed by UPM used as assistant robot. Examples of social applications, although not the only ones, are people with special needs, such as company for the elderly, or children with autism. The robot is also a platform to integrate and test Artificial Intelligence techniques. One of the main goals is to work towards emotional intelligence in social robotics, focusing on human robot interaction by means of advanced behavior adaptation.

he company Aquadata has received the Innovation award, category “Emergent Technologies” from “El Español” (Spanish newspaper). The UPM professors Jorge Artieda and Alberto Brunete collaborate with Aquadata in the project Clic and Fish. You can find more info here.

Since 2015, the Robotics Lab of UC3M has taught robotics at AIRBUS, S.L. to meet the needs of AIRBUS Industrial Academy. The modality of the courses is basic (training 24 hours) and advanced (40 hours). New Advanced Robotics courses have recently been added to these courses.
Mechatronics and Advanced Numeric Control, which are already part of the Training catalog of AIRBUS Industrial Academy and are offered for all AIRBUS group factories. This training has been carried out in the facilities of the university as well as in the AIRBUS factory of

On November, 14th UC3M’s robot TEO was featured on the nine o’clock news on TVE’s La 1 channel. You can see the news in this link (0:41:11).

Concha Monje has been selected as one of the best 11 players in national scientific team by Quo magazine.

You can see the full info here.

Carlos Balaguer has been invited by the University of Technology Sydney (Australia) as Distinguished Visiting Pprofessor. There he is contributing to the enrichment of the School of Electrical, Mechanical and Mechatronic Systems as “one of the pioneer robotics scientists in Spain, having started research in the subject in the early 80s”.

The General Chair of IROS 2018 presented in Vancouver the next 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018) to be held in Madrid. Carlos Balaguer showcased the main streghs of Madrid as the hosting city as well as the ones of the venues for the conference and the social events. Also IROS2018 had a booth to inform and endorse attendees to participate in the IROS conference in Madrid. There Rebeca Izquierdo, Eduardo Silles, Juan Carlos González, Alberto Jardón, Juan Miguel García Haro and David Estévez teamed