06-08-2025
IRO

Prof. Petros Maragos, Acting Director of AthenaRC Robotics Institute and HERON Director, was invited as a Keynote Speaker at the 2025 Greeks-in-AI Symposium, Athens, Greece. His Keynote speech on the 20th July 2025, entitled "...

06-08-2025
IRO
The following paper, co-authored by researchers and collaborators of the Athena RC Robotics Institute, received the PETRA-2025 Best Paper Award:
Chrysa Pratikaki, P. P. Filntisis, A. Katsamanis, A. Roussos and P. Maragos, “A Transformer-Based Framework for Greek Sign Language...
06-08-2025
IRO

Prof. Petros Maragos was invited as a Keynote Speaker at the 25th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2025), Costa Navarino, Messinia, Greece. His Keynote speech, entitled "...

06-08-2025
IRO

Prof. Petros Maragos was invited as a Tutorial Speaker at the AIDA Symposium and Summer School on ‘AI/ML Cutting Edge Trends' (AIDA AICET2025),  jointly...

15-05-2025
IRO
Professor Petros Maragos, Director of Robotics Institute at the Athena Research Center and Scientific Coordinator of the newly established Center of Excellence in Robotics “HERON”, gave an interview on ERT’s First Programme, on the show «Digital Sundays...
07-05-2025
IRO
With formality and broad participation from the academic community, government, and the scientific world, the Inaugural Event of the Hellenic Center of Excellence in Robotics – HERON – was held on Thursday, April 3, 2025, at the Basil...
24-03-2025
IRO
In March 2025, the research teams of the Robotics Institute and HERON of the Athena Research Center carried out a series of activities aimed at informing and engaging students in science, artificial intelligence, and...
25-10-2024
IRO
Dr. Evangelos Papadopoulos, professor at NTUA, director of the Automatic Control Laboratory, and deputy director of HERON at the Robotics Institute of Athena Research Center, gave an interview to Athens Voice on the occasion of the establishment of the first Center of...
31-07-2024
Athena RC
The team of world-class recognized researchers in Robotics and AI who lead the Robotics Institute at the Athena Research Center, have won a competitive grant of over 30 million EUR to build the first Center of Excellence (CoE) in Robotics Technologies in the...
25-07-2024
IRO
The Athena Robotics Institute in collaboration with the School of Mechanical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, developed the novel soft actuators "Mag-Nets". The actuator incorporates copper coils and neodymium permanent magnets embedded in a silicone body inspired by...
03-06-2024
Athena RC

The Athena Research Center is delighted and proud to announce that its Institute of Robotics has secured approval for a highly significant European project aimed at establishing a Center of Excellence in Robotics during the era of Artificial...

12-04-2024
Athena RC

Το Ερευνητικό Κέντρο Αθηνά, συμμετέχει στην 1η Έκθεση Αυτοματισμού & Ρομποτικής στην Ελλάδα, παρουσιάζοντας μια σειρά από καινοτόμες τεχνολογίες. Η έκθεση θα πραγματοποιηθεί στο Athens Metropolitan Expo από...