RoboLab - Robotics and Artificial Vision Lab (Universidad de Extremadura)

The Robotics and Artificial VisionLab: RoboLab (University of Extremadura) was founded in 1995 with a vocation for basic and applied research and with a permanent objective of transferring the results to the productive and service system of our society. In these more than twenty years of experience, robotics has become one of the pillars of the group's research, becoming leaders in this area in the Extremadura region and a reference group at the national level. Since 2010, the RoboLab group has been actively working in developing technologies applied to different sectors of society, from agriculture and livestock, in the primary industry, industry in the secondary sector, to the service sector itself. All this through its participation in different European, national and regional calls or direct collaboration with companies in these sectors.

General
Registered office: RoboLab - Robotics and Artificial Vision Lab (Universidad de Extremadura)
Entity type:
Size: 11-50
Innovation group:
  • Agriculture
  • Healthcare
  • Industrial Robotics
  • Robot Companions for Assisted Living
  • Construction
Contact data
City: Cáceres
State: Extremadura
Country: Spain
Contact: Pedro Núñez Trujillo (pnuntru@unex.es)
Web: https://robolab.unex.es/
Technological Aspects

Type of tecnology base of the institution activities

General domain:
  • Agriculture
  • Healthcare
  • Robot companions for assisted living
  • Laboratory Robotics
Technology:
  • AI and Cognition
  • Autonomous Navigation
  • Software Engineering, Systems Integration and Systems Engineering
  • Perception
  • Socially intelligent Robotcs and Societal Applications
  • Telerobotics and Teleoperation
Others (Non-Technical):
  • Education and training

Types of activities developed by the institution

  • Development and manufacturing of robotic equipment and technologies for end
  • Robot programming (software development)
  • Integral customised projects for end users
  • Integration/installation of robotic equipment and technologies
  • Research and development projects
Specific Tehcnological Aspects
Cognitive architecture for robotics
R+D Projects

Project 1

Name: Robotics Cognitive Architectures for Social Awareness
Project type: National
Funding source: Yes
Funded externally: Yes
Developed in consortium: Yes

Project 2

Name: EXTENDAGE: EXTENSIÓN DE LA AUTONOMÍA PERSONAL Y PROMOCIÓN DEL ENVEJECIMEINTO ACTIVO CON ROBOTS ASISTENCIALES EN RESIDENCIAS Y HOGARES INTELIGENTES
Web: https://robolab.unex.es/index.php/extendage/
Summary:

The main objective of the ExtendAGE project is to evaluate in the long term the acceptance and usefulness of the social assistance robot integrated into the daily life of a nursing home. The robot must move around the residence and perform specific tasks, such as proposing activities that promote active aging and socio-emotionally stimulate the user and assist health personnel in monitoring and evolving the elderly. Therefore, the evaluation presented in this project is carried out in a long-term experiment. For six months, the prototype of the social care robot will be working in a nursing home for the elderly in Extremadura.

Project type: Internal
Funding source: Yes
Funded externally: Yes
Developed in consortium: No