Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Research Group

Develop research in the areas of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), with new proposals and basic studies, as well as applied research to problems that drive the development of scientific and technological knowledge, aimed at solving challenges for Uruguay and the region.

Robotics
Artificial Intelligence

Mobile Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for Automation in Industry
Participants: UTEC
Funding: United States Embassy in Uruguay

Artificial Intelligence-based Tracking Solutions for Automation in the Security Sector
Participants: UTEC
Funding: United States Embassy in Uruguay

UruBots – Uruguayan Robotics Team Competitions in Uruguay
Participants: UTEC
Funding: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Monitoring of solid waste in Uruguay’s watercourses
Participants: UTEC
Funding: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), and Office of Planning and Budget of Uruguay (OPP)

Intelligent system to optimize rural road management in Uruguay
Participants: UTEC
Funding: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Intelligent web system to improve cadastral information management at the subnational level in Uruguay
Participants: UTEC
Funding: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

South-South technical cooperation project between Brazil and Uruguay: Assistive Technologies, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence Applied to Health
Participants: UTEC, UFCSPA, Ministry of Health of Brazil
Funding: Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC), Uruguayan International Cooperation Agency (AUCI), UTEC, UFCSPA, and Ministry of Health of Brazil

Santos, E. D., Guterres, B. d. V., Grando, R., & Junior, J. N. J. (2024). Enhancing cattle farming management: A case study from Uruguay. 2024 IEEE URUCON, 1–5.

Moraes, P., et al. (2024). Behavior cloning for mini autonomous car path following. 2024 IEEE URUCON, 1–5.

Deniz, J. M., Kelboucas, A. S., & Grando, R. B. (2024). Real-time robotics situation awareness for accident prevention in industry. 2024 Latin American Robotics Symposium (LARS), 1–6.

Kelbouscas, A. L. da S., Minuzi, N. A., Grando, R. B., & de Freitas Vidal, M. A. (2024, December). Creation of the first university group for robotics competitions and research at UTEC: Urubots. LINKS, International Journal, Technological University, Uruguay, 2.

Moraes, Pablo, Monica Rodriguez, Kristofer S. Kappel, Hiago Sodre, Santiago Fernandez, Igor Nunes, Bruna Guterres, and Ricardo Grando. "Mini Autonomous Car Driving based on 3D Convolutional Neural Networks." arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.21271 (2025).

Pollini, D., Guterres, B. V., Guerra, R. S., & Grando, R. B. (2025). Reducing Latency in LLM-Based Natural Language Commands Processing for Robot Navigation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.00075.

Peters, C., Blum, K. M., Al Krad, I., Moraes, P., Grando, R. B., Gerndt, R., & Doernbach, T. Remote vs. Presence Laboratories in Human-Robot Interaction with Social Robots: A Study on Task Performance.

Grando, R. B., Steinmetz, R., Kich, V. A., Kolling, A. H., Furik, P. M., de Jesus, J. C., ... & Drews, L. J. (2024, August). Improving generalization in aerial and terrestrial mobile robots control through delayed policy learning. In 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) (pp. 1028-1033). IEEE.

Guterres, B., Sbrissa, K., Mendes, A., Meireles, L., Novoveska, L., Vermeulen, F., ... & Machado, R. (2023, July). HAB detection within aquaculture industry: A case study in the Atlantic Area. In 2023 IEEE 21st International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

da Silva Kelbouscas, A. L., Coch, V. B., & de Oliveira, V. M. Sistema vestıvel auxiliar a terapias de reabilitaçao motora de membros superiores para implementaçao de gameterapia.

Vioto, S. A., Garcia, A. T., da Silva Kelbouscas, A. L., Coch, V. B., & de Oliveira, V. M. (2021, October). Network of Embedded Systems for Motor Rehabilitation Post-Stroke of Upper Limbs using ESP8266 and ESPNOW protocol. In Simpósio Brasileiro de Automação Inteligente-SBAI (Vol. 1, No. 1).

Cuña, P. D., & Guerra, R. D. S. SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFICATION OF PATHOLOGICAL CELLS IN CERVICAL SISTEMA DE CLASIFICACIÓN DE CÉLULAS PATOLÓGICAS EN CITOLOGÍA CERVICAL.

Russi, B. C., Moreira, R. S., Cuña Cabrera, P. D., & Cazella, S. C. (2024). Concepção de dataset de epítopos lineares de células B de organismos do gênero Trypanosoma para treinamento de algoritmos baseados em aprendizado de máquina. Anais do II Simpósio CI-IA Saúde da UFMG, 70–72. Faculdade de Medicina da UFMG. Recuperado de

Russi, B. C., Moreira, R. S., Cuña Cabrera, P. D., & Cazella, S. C. (2024). Trypanosoma Epitope Dataset: Valid Epitopes and Randomly Generated Peptides with Biochemical Metrics and AI-Generated Scores [Dataset]. Zenodo.

Pereira, H. J. S., Moraes, P. E., Da Silva Kelbouscas, A., & Grando, R. (2022). Robótica Móvel e Inteligência Artificial para Investigação, Competição e Automatização de Sistemas Industriais. arXiv (Cornell University). https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2210.11195

Hiago, S., Sebastian, B., Vincent, S., Pablo, M., Christopher, P., Angél, D. S., Gabriela, F., Ahilen, M., Santiago, F., Nathalie, A., Bruna, D. V., Ricardo, G., & André, K. (2024, 22 octubre). Configura\c{c}\~ao e opera\c{c}\~ao da plataforma Clearpath Husky A200 e manipulador Cobot UR5 2-finger gripper. arXiv.org.

Sodre, H., Moraes, P., Rodriguez, M., Castelli, V., Barboza, P., Mattos, M., Vivas, G., Bruna, D. V., Dörnbach, T., & Grando, R. (2023b, octubre 25). Aplicacion de Robots Humanoides como Guias Interactivos en Museos: Una Simulacion con el Robot NAO. arXiv.org.

Moraes, P., Rodríguez, M., Peters, C., Sodre, H., Moraes, W., Barcelona, S., Deniz, J., ... & Grando, R. (2024). Interação entre robôs humanoides: desenvolvendo a colaboração e comunicação autônoma. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.17450.

Moraes, P., Sodre, H., Rodriguez, M., Kelbouscas, A., Schuster, J., Schuster, C., & Grando, R. (2023). Diseño y Desarrollo de Prototipos Robóticos para Competencias de Fútbol utilizando Motores Dynamixel. arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.17058.

Baumbach, I. H., & Minuzi, N. A. (2024, October). 1.2 Ar culos Cortos. In XIX Conferencia Latinoamericana de Tecnologías de Aprendizaje (p. 49). Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.

ASSUNÇÃO MINUZI, NATHALIE; SILVEIRA SONEGO, ANNA HELENA ; MACHADO, L. S. R. ; BEHAR, P. . Pensamento computacional: a construção de práticas para atividades desplugadas. CADERNO PEDAGÓGICO (LAJEADO. ONLINE), v. 22, p. 1-16, 2025.

Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Research Group

Castelli, Victor

Rodríguez, Mónica

Cuña Cabrera, Pablo Daniel

Assuncao, Nathalie

Moraes, Pablo

de los Santos, Ernesto

Deniz, Juan Manuel

Bedin, Ricardo

Guterres, Bruna

da Silva Kelbouscas, André

Sodre, Hiago

de León, Juan Pedro

Barboza, Pamela

Barcelona, Sebastián

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