So, I am back from London where I attended the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023). I had many interesting conversations with many other researchers and roboticists around the world, and there is definitely a strong need of pushing further the boundaries of Software Engineering practices and techniques in robotics, ranging from better …

Recently, together with other researchers across the world (US, Brasil, Netherlands), I am working on a very exciting research area called energy-efficient robotics software.Basically, here the whole point is that today robotic systems are more and more heavy on the software aspects (for example see the strong emphasis and prominence of the Robot Operating System). …