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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 […]
Best Paper Award @ IE2026
The paper “Optimized Gaussian large language model (LLM) reprogrammed for temporal predictions”, co-authored by João P. Matos-Carvalho, LASIGE integrated member, received the Best Paper Award at the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE2026), held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 15 to 18 June 2026. This work proposes a hybrid time series forecasting framework that combines […]
Honorable mention for Tiago Guerreiro in ‘Computer Sciences and Informatic Engineering-2026 prize’ by ULisboa/CGD
Tiago Guerreiro, LASIGE director and integrated researcher, received an honourable mention, for the second time, in the ‘Computer Sciences and Informatics Engineering-2026 prize’ by ULisboa/CGD for the work developed from 2021 to 2025. Each year, the University of Lisbon (ULisboa), supported by Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD), awards the “University of Lisbon / Caixa Geral […]