At CRAS, our mission is to develop innovative robotic solutions for complex environments and multiple operations, including data gathering, inspection, mapping, surveillance, and intervention.
We work in four main areas of research: autonomous navigation; long-term deployments; sensing, mapping, and intervention; multiple platform operations.
At the Port of Leixões Cruise Terminal, INESC TEC placed ocean research firmly on the Business2Sea agenda; throughout the event, researchers and representatives from the Institute participated in panels, round tables and presentations, sharing experiences and future perspectives on ocean innovation.
14th January 2026
One team works in Robotics and the other in Systems Engineering and Management; and they share the ambition to take their R&D work to the market. This goal led them to participate in TechLaunch, an entrepreneurship bootcamp promoted by the UT Austin Portugal Program. Both INESC TEC research teams were selected for the initiative and had the opportunity to spend a week at UT Austin.
12th January 2026
DRIVOLUTION is one of the Mobilising Agendas under Portugal’s Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) and includes the participation of INESC TEC. The goal of this Agenda, which brings together 38 partners and involves an investment of over €50M, is to create a Factory of the Future model capable of addressing the challenges of the automotive sector. As a result of INESC TEC’s involvement, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle designed to carry out logistics operations in industrial warehouses has already been developed.
18th December 2025
Following earlier tests in Italy, INESC TEC researchers have returned to the Mediterranean Sea for a new round of demonstrations under the NETTAG+ project, this time off the coast of the island of Vis, in Croatia. Supported by the autonomous vehicle IRIS, the goal was to test the tools developed to locate lost fishing nets on the seabed.
18th December 2025
In October, INESC TEC researchers contributed to a new data collection and mapping campaign of the Madeira–Tore geological complex. With the support of the autonomous vehicle EVA, it was possible to collect data and images of the seabed at depths of up to 1,100 metres.
18th December 2025
