About Us

Meet the team


The research of the Robot Household Companion is being performed at the RoboticsLab of the Carlos III University of Madrid. We have a multidisciplinar team of great researchers with different backgrounds working on topics such as humanoid robots, assistive robots and robots for automation in construction. In this page you can know more about the team working in the Robot Household Companion.

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David Estevez

He received his Degree in Industrial Engineering in 2014 and MSc. in Robotics and Automation in 2016 from the University Carlos III of Madrid. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Robotics Lab UC3M researching the perception and manipulation of deformable objects, applied to assistive robots. He is also an active researcher at the HORUS project devoted to the inspection of protective suits for healthcare applications. In his spare time, he contributes to the Robotics Society of the University Carlos III of Madrid (ASROB).

Juan G Victores

Juan G. Victores received the Engineering Degree from Universidad de Vigo (Spain) in 2008, MSc. Robotics and Automation in 2010, and PhD in Robotics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 2014. He participated in the EU robotics in construction project TunConstruct (2007-2008), and currently in Robinspect (2013-). He has been an active Researcher for the ASIBOT project in assistive and cognitive robotics since then. Juan additionally contributes to several open source projects.

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Carlos Balaguer

Carlos Balaguer received his Ph.D. in Automation from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), Spain in 1983. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. Since 1996, he has been a Full Professor of the Robotics Lab at the University Carlos III of Madrid. He is currently the Vice-chancellor for research of the University. He has published more than 200 papers in journals and conference proceedings, and several books in the field of robotics. He is a member IFAC, and former President of IAARC (2001-2004). He was the coordinator of the Spanish Robotic Network (2005-2009) and was the Spanish representative in the European platform EUROP (2006-2008). He received several awards including Tucker-Hasegawa award 2006 in Tokyo for a major contribution in the field of Robotics and Automation in Construction. He is also the General Chair of IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots 2014.