The group investigates the theoretical, computational, and implementation challenges arising in the design, construction, and control of complex robotic systems. Among these systems, we highlight parallel robots, anthropomorphic robotic arms, intelligent prostheses, biomechanical systems for motion assistance or rehabilitation, and other robots with diverse topologies that—thanks to sufficient sensing and adaptive capabilities—can interact with humans in an agile and safe manner.

The research of the PERCEPTION AND MANIPULATION group focuses on enhancing the perception, learning, and planning capabilities of robots to achieve higher degrees of autonomy and user-friendliness during everyday manipulation tasks, especially of deformable objects. Some topics addressed are the geometric interpretation of perceptual information (RGB-D vision, force and torque), the 3D modeling of rigid and flexible objects, action selection and planning, reinforcement learning, and teaching by demonstration.

The main goal of the Glycosystems Laboratory is the study in detail of the biologically relevant recognition processes involving carbohydrates, with the aim to intervene on these processes. In particular, the Glycosystems laboratory is focused on the synthesis of carbohydrates, glycoconjugates, and carbohydrate multivalent systems, the study of these entities at the structural level using computational and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) techniques, and the analysis of the interactions of these carbohydrate systems with their corresponding receptors.

The Research team focus the activity under the motto “Carbohydrates for Health and Wellness: Glycodrugs, Glycotransportes and Glycobiotics”.

Our research group is formed by three staff scientists, They perform an interdisciplinary and complementary research that touches the fields of Chemical Biology and Pharmacology, oriented to the study of the regulation of reproductive functions in mammals. Besides, one technician currently add to the group personnel, with the help, in some instances, of a technician of the IIQ staff.

The research carried out in the AS@FUN group can be divided into two main axes: (i) Design, Synthesis and Bioapplication of Functional Nanosystems and (ii) Asymmetric synthesis. All these subjects have in common the utilization of carbohydrates either as inexpensive chiral codifying agents or as molecular recognition elements of biological receptors implied in unsolved pathological processes.

Design and synthesis of stable radicals, mainly centered on the carbon atom, which allow to be handling and storing as regular compounds. The stable radicals find a wide range of practical applications, ranging from their use as agents of polarization for Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) in NMR experiments or in the molecular probes 'spin labelling' making use of the Electronic Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR), up to the synthesis of organic compounds and/or non-metallic polymers, such as magnetic materials with high Tc, in the field of molecular magnetism.

The QUIMERA Group emerged from the Organometallic Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis Group founded by Prof. Ernesto Carmona in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry in the Universidad de Sevilla at the beginning of the 80's. The group moved to the Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas in 1996, when this research institute was created. Since then this Group has worked on several research lines in Organometallic Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis.