Joana Dias, researcher at CITUA, is implementing a social innovation laboratory to reduce the risk of forest fires in the Algarve. 🌲
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Jorge de Brito, professor at Técnico and researcher at, is studying new strategies to reduce the environmental impact of the concrete and cement industry.
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Sílvia Monteiro, researcher at CERIS/LAIST, is assessing the presence of dengue and chikungunya infections in the Mozambican population by collecting water samples from the Infulene river.💧
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The UK Ambassador visited labs, research projects and international collaboration initiatives, in an effort to strengthen relations between the 2 nations and learn about the latest innovations by Técnico researchers. 🤝🎓
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A Escola Secundária de Azambuja recebeu, a 3 de dezembro, Rogério Colaço, atual presidente do Técnico, que cumpriu “o sonho” de regressar à sua casa para dar uma aula sobre nanotecnologia.
Reportagem e entrevista completa: tinyurl.com/bdcyh5kv
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Pedro Rosa is part of Robotics4Farmers, a project that is developing an autonomous robot that uses radiation to eliminate weeds, reducing the use of herbicides. 🤖🌾
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Marco Piccardo (Técnico / INESC-MN) is developing metasurfaces to control light precisely, w/ promising applications in areas like security & augmented reality.🔍💡
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Jorge Fernandes is developing tiny, biocompatible implants that work without batteries, offering a less intrusive alternative for medical therapies. 🔋🩺
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The ISTSat-1 is in orbit, sending signals, and functioning well despite initial low signal strength. The team is working to enhance signal reception, ensuring the satellite's continued success. 🌌 🛰️
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The "Técnico lança Oeiras no Espaço" event marks the launch of ISTSAT-1 and the creation of the Oeiras Valley Space Hub.🛰️🚀
📍 Instituto Superior Técnico - Polo Oeiras
🗓️ July 9th, 5 pm
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ISTSat-1 is Técnico's 1st CubeSat, developed and built in Portugal, making it the country's 1st university satellite!🛰️
Its launch is planned for the summer of 2024, on the back of @esa’s Ariane 6. 🚀
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Thank you for joining us and our researchers as we share these projects that can have a positive impact on the lives of persons with disabilities.
🧵 (25/25)
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Through an imitation game, in which children practise different gestures while being imitated by the NAO robot, the robot can reward the child when they perform the exercise correctly.
🧵 (24/25)
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Touchibo is a robot with dynamic textures, lights, smells and sounds that can mediate group conversations between children and enrich narrative experiences.
🧵 (23/25)
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EMPOWER aims to create a digital educational platform that helps developing children's skills and emotions using games adapted to their intellectual capacity, neurodevelopmental disorder and age.
🧵 (22/25)
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A game was developed whose characters are controlled by the player's movement. The mechanics of the game were designed to promote movements usually performed in upper limb physiotherapy sessions.
🧵 (21/25)
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Based on stem cell engineering, EURAS centres on creating disease models, in particular the rarest forms of RASopathies.
🧵 (20/25)
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“The Mind” is a system that allows 3 players to collaborate in a game, interacting with each other and with a robot that is able to give clues adapted to hearing difficulties of the players.
🧵 (19/25)
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This project developed a passive functional prosthesis for children with hand hypoplasia. In preliminary tests, it showed a movement pattern similar to that observed in a healthy hand.
🧵 (18/25)
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A prosthesis was produced using additive printing with flexible materials, applied to a 2 year old with a congenital malformation, improving his function, self-esteem and quality of life.
🧵 (17/25)
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TACTOPI is an inclusive multisensory play environment designed to support play in children with different visual abilities, that uses tangible interaction and a robot as the main character.
🧵 (16/25)
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This research centres on the experience of people with and without disabilities, aiming to innovate spaces such as arcades through social justice in adapting buildings to climate change.
🧵 (15/25)
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Emotions2Us consists of an interactive light with which a stroke survivor and carer interact, expressing their emotional state via a keyboard with a colour-based emotion scale.
🧵 (14/25)
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With HALO, a language model based on AI is combined for the first time with a hands-free controller based on bioelectric signals, allowing the user to hold a conversation in a simplified way.
🧵 (13/25)
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The personalised exoskeleton in development intends to reduce the effort in day-to-day movements for children with upper limb limitations.
🧵 (12/25)
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This project aims to create a game to empower people with intellectual disabilities to become active citizens in the challenges of sustainable development, involving the users in the process.
🧵 (11/25)
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Angelman syndrome is a rare neurological disorder characterised by delayed development and behavioural changes. This project is generating new cell models to study the disease.
🧵 (10/25)
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Território Justo focuses on proposing corrections to the asymmetries, imbalances and functionalities revealed by urban spaces, to integrate the needs of different segments of the population.
🧵 (9/25)
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DiversiBots is a project to co-create robotic games with neurodivergent children that has produced two main results: the game "The Shark Escape" and the co-design kit "PartiPlay".
🧵 (8/25)
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By using digital tools as 'equalisers', ShakeAM will enable students with disabilities to benefit from teaching resources and programmes to their full extent.
🧵 (7/25)
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