Intelligent Robotics Lab (URJC)

The Intelligent Robotics Lab is a research group at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) in Fuenlabrada, near Madrid. Its research focuses on solving complex robotics problems by fusing artificial intelligence, automation and perception. Core areas include human-robot interaction (robots that understand emotions and social cues; social and medical robotics), perception systems (object detection, SLAM, visual attention from cameras and LiDAR), autonomous navigation (safe, efficient movement in dynamic indoor and outdoor environments) and task planning (intelligent planning of multi-step tasks). The team makes heavy use of ROS 2 and develops open-source software, including the EasyNavigation (EasyNav) navigation system and StrataSLAM. Its work is led by Francisco Martín Rico.