URUS

Partners: Instituto Superior Técnico (IST, Portugal), Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC, Spain), Universidad de Zaragoza (UniZar, Spain), Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna (SSSA, Italy), The University of Surrey (UniSurrey, UK), Centre National dela Recherche Scientifique (CNRS/LAAS, France), Eidgenoessische Technische Hochshule Zurich (ETHZ, Switzerland), Robotech SRL (Spain), Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo SA Unipersonal (Spain), Agencia d'Ecologia Urbana de Barcelona (Spain), Associacion de la Investigacion y Cooperation Industrial de Andalucia (AICIA, Spain).


The goal of the project was the development and testing of a network of robots and intelligent sensors to assist and monitor urban settings, namely pedestrian areas.

The project deployed a network of video cameras and a team of robots in areas of Barcelona (Spain).

The URUS concept

Human-Robot Interaction tests

Outdoor navigation tests