Centre for Automation and Robotics (CSIC-UPM)

Centre for Automation and Robotics (CSIC-UPM)

Organisation type: 
Research institutions
Country: 
Spain
Short name: 
CAR
Description: 

The Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR) is a joint venture of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). The CAR is one of the biggest Research Centres focused on Robotics, Automation and Perception in Spain and it is particularly well positioned to lead their ambitious work plan by using their excellent conceptual and instrumental resources. The CAR undertakes a high quality research within an overall methodology and a multidisciplinary approach, contributing both to the knowledge advancement and to the resolution of specific problems of social, economic and industrial relevance. The CAR is well renowned due to their participation in a great number of projects and programmes funded by the European Commission, the Spanish National Research Programme, the Research Programmes of the Autonomous Communities and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID). Furthermore, a large effort is devoted to provide innovation capacity in a wide range of highly demanding, real-world application domains for enhancing the performance of complex systems.
Tha CAR was (2010-2014) the coordinator of the European Project RHEA (Robot Fleets for Highly Effective Agricultural and Forestry Management, FP7 NMP 245986)

International: 
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