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The UC3M is participating in the organisation of the largest robotics event in the world

IIROS 2018 takes place from the 1 st – 5 th of October in Madrid

10/2/18

Madrid is hosting the largest robotics event in the world: the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018). The UC3M is one of the organisers of this event, which takes place from the 1 st to the 5 th of October at the Palacio Municipal de Congresos.

LogotipO IROS 2018, Madrid.
 

Over one week, IROS 2018 will bring together more than 3,500 participants from 60 countries around the world. It will also host a robotics fair in which more than 150 exhibitors from companies in the sector will present the latest advances in intelligent robots, humanoids, self-driving cars, service robots in medical applications, etc. "Madrid’s hosting of IROS 2018 represents a unique and wonderful opportunity to promote Spain as a country involved in technological development, digitalisation and innovation," says Professor Balaguer.

This event will provide a forum for the discussion of the hottest topics in robotics. Professor Cecilia Laschi, coordinator of the IROS 2018 Programme Committee, says that "interdisciplinarity and work on the frontiers of knowledge are key elements of modern robotics, which today is organised into multidisciplinary teams of engineers, physicists, sociologists, doctors."

The slogan of this year’s edition, Towards a Robotic Society, reflects the advance of robotic technologies in a technological society. The conference will therefore feature, in addition to the technical presentations, presentations of the latest advances in the coexistence of robots with humans, personal and assistance robotics for people with disabilities and the elderly, human-robot interaction, etc. According to Professor Carlos Balaguer, the chairperson of IROS 2018 and a professor at the UC3M, "we will probably begin to share our daily tasks with robots in much less time than we think, and while this interaction will initially be 'strange', over time it will become increasingly fruitful."