Project ColRobot’s main objective is to combine cutting-edge European robot technology and end-user requirements for assembly processes to create an integrated system for collaborative robotics in which a mobile manipulator acts as a “third hand” by delivering kits, tools, parts, a...

After the earthquakes in L’Aquila, Haiti and Japan, the European Commission confirmed that there exists a large discrepancy between (robotic) technology that is developed in laboratory and the use of such technology in the field for Search and Rescue (SAR) operations and crisis management.  Th...

Can we explain the power of music and dance to prevent and even treat illness? In Western societies, this question is of great concern to cognitive scientists, who investigate the impact of music on basic human faculties such as memory, emotions and corporeal abilities in persons affected by differe...

After the earthquakes in L’Aquila, Haiti and Japan, the European Commission confirmed that there exists a large discrepancy between (robotic) technology that is developed in laboratory and the use of such technology in the field for Search and Rescue (SAR) operations and crisis management.  Th...

The STRONGMAR project aims at creating solid and productive links in the global field of marine science and technology between INESC TEC and established leading research institutions, helping to raise its staff’s research profile and recognition as a European maritime research centre of excell...

Increasing the autonomy of the blind or people with low vision, allowing them to be included in a large set of activities and improving their quality of life, using a mobile digital platform – this is INESC TEC’s goal with project CE4BLIND. Besides computer vision techniques, new forms...

The STVgoDIGITAL: Digitalization of the T&C sector project is a structural project of the Portuguese Textile Cluster: Technology and Fashion, which aims to comprise a set of research initiatives with a strong collective impact and high inductor and demonstrator effect. Clearly aligned with the Portu...

The NESSIE project, (?moNitoring offshorE StructureS with robotIc systems intEgration?), is promoted by A. Silva Matos Metalomecânica (Leading Copromotor), Composite Solutions and Antartic Module Yard (Business Copromotors), together with INESC TEC, FEUP and ISEP (ENESII), and aims to research...

iLoF is a new technology for the detection and classification of nanoparticles, namely exosomes, in complex liquids with great interest in clinical diagnosis in the Health Care Industry. Since it measures sample?s backscattered signal (from the light irradiation interaction with the particle) and an...

The Frontowns project studies the small border towns between the Portuguese Alto Alentejo and the Leonese Alta Extremadura in the 13th to 16th centuries. The aim is to identify the role of these towns in the articulation of a border territory and in the relation with more distant spaces, exploring t...