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The Garraf presents to the ERDF the second project to promote active and healthy aging, through technological innovation
A project of the Institute of Robotics among the five actions to improve the processes of early detection of the loss of functional autonomy, diagnosis and remote assistance, through the development of technological tools.
An IRD project wins the 5G Challenge of the Mobile World Capital and the Barcelona City Council
The project of the Institute of Robotics for Dependency will use the social robot Misty to provide assistance, support and monitoring to elder people living alone. The 5G Barcelona’s Challenge initiative, has received 53 applications from 14 countries with projects...
Article published in reputed “IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing”
Our article “Feature Extraction and Selection for Emotion Recognition from Electrodermal Activity” got published in prestigious ” IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing”.
Article published in prestigious “International Journal of Social Robotics”
Congratulations to the researchers at IRD! Our article “Robot Assisted Interventions for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities: Impact on Users and Caregivers” got published in prestigious “International Journal of Social Robotics”.
COFACE Disability Platform meeting and field visit hosted by the Institute of Robotics for Dependency
On 25-26 June 2018, the COFACE Disability platform (for the rights of persons with disabilities and their families) met in Sitges, Spain. We hosted the meeting as members of COFACE Families Europe, a pluralistic network of civil society associations representing the...
Niños con TEA realizaran terapias con robots gracias al impulso de la Obra Social de la Caixa en colaboración con el Instituto de Robótica para la Dependencia
Julio Molinario (a la izquierda), Presidente del IRD, en el momento de la firma del convenio de colaboración con el Director Territorial Garraf de CaixaBank, Oscar Diaz. Los niños con TEA, uno de los trastornos del desarrollo infantil más comunes, tienden a aprender...
The IRD member of the Advisory Forum of the H2020 project Nestore
The AGE Platform Europe is a European network of non-profit organisations of and for people aged 50+, which aims to voice and promote the interests of the 190 million citizens aged 50+ in the European Union and to raise awareness on the issues that concern them most....
Oral Presentation of our research in a worskhop at HRI-2018 in Chicago, USA
Our research article, Emotional State Recognition for Personalized Robot Behavior Adaptation: Ethical Implications, was earlier accepted for oral presentation at a workshop on Social Robots in Therapy: Focusing on Autonomy and Ethical Challenges, in conjunction with the 13th ACM / IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2018).
Publication of our research in distinguished journal Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
Our research article, Efficient wavelet-based artifact removal for electrodermal activity in real-world applications, has been published in Biomedical Signal Processing and Control. In this research we have proposed a computationally efficient method for denoising...
Winners of the 2017 EESC Civil Society Prize
The EU rewards the Laundry ID project in a ceremony in Brussels.
Press Clipping
❯ m4Social: “L’aplicació de la innovació tecnològica en l’activitat assistencial” (14/06/2018)
❯ (TV) Para Todos la 2: “Innovación y discapacidad” (03/02/2018)
❯ La Vanguardia: “La lavandería más inclusiva” (22/01/2018)
❯ (TV) laSexta Noticias: “Robots sociales” (13/12/2016)
❯ (TV) Informatiu TVE: entrevista a Joan Oliver, Research Manager (22/11/2016)
❯ (TV) DeuWatts: “Robots socials” (22/11/2016)
❯ La Vanguardia: “Asistidos por autómatas” (21/11/2016)
❯ El Periódico: “Robots para ensanchar el cerebro” (05/11/2016)
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