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NavXR project @ Smart City of Rock
LASIGE researchers showcased an interactive demonstrator focused on accessibility and inclusive technologies from the NavXR project at Rock in Rio Lisboa. Our PhD students Pedro Trindade and Manuel Piçarra were at the event as part of the Smart City of Rock initiative at the University of Lisbon stand. During the event, visitors had the opportunity […]
Optimising Multi-Source Energy in Smart Houses: The ATIRENDEE System
Tiago Rodrigues, Joana Morgado, Márcia Barros, Alan Oliveira, and José Cecílio, LASIGE Researchers, published the paper ” AI-driven IoT recommender system for enhancing energy efficient management in smart houses” in the Expert Systems with Applications journal, a Top-ranking journal. This research presents the Artificial InTelligence-driven IoT REcommeNDEr Energy System (ATIRENDEE), a solution designed to enhance […]
BinBot project @ Smart City of Rock
BinBot project, awarded funding through the competitive LASIGE/FCT Seed Projects Call 2025, was showcased, by Frederico Cerqueira, our researcher and MSc student, at Rock in Rio Lisboa as part of the Smart City of Rock initiative at the University of Lisbon stand, where the first full-scale prototype was demonstrated to the public for the first […]
Can cooperative drones overcome payload and autonomy limitations in aerial transport?
The COOPERATIVE project, “Cooperative Transport of Payloads Using Drones”, has officially started at LASIGE, exploring new approaches for the coordinated aerial transport of suspended payloads using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles. Awarded funding through the competitive LASIGE/FCT Seed Projects Call 2025, the project investigates a two-drone leader–follower configuration designed to overcome the payload capacity and autonomy […]
LASIGE’s robots visit a primary school
As part of the “Programa Cientificamente Provável”, of which LASIGE is a partner, we have established a long-term partnership with the schools in Santa Iria de Azóia. In this first activity, 77 children in the primary school (3rd and 4th grade) interacted with our QTrobot and Reachymini robots and some of our researchers, such as […]
LASIGE Research Focuses on Inclusive Social Play for Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Hearing Children at CHI 2026
The paper “Social Play Between Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children and Hearing Peers: Learning from Children and School Ecosystems”, co-authored by Jing Zhao and Isabel Neto (both LASIGE researchers), and Michaela Okosi, Paulo Vaz de Carvalho, and Hugo Nicolau, has been accepted and presented at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems […]