HERON Robotics Center of Excellence
HERON is the first Robotics Center of Excellence established in Greece through EU Horizon Europe funding. It conducts fundamental and applied research in field robotics, space robotics, service robots, and manipulation systems, with focus on autonomous systems for challenging real-world applications. The center collaborates with Athena Research Center, Italian Institute of Technology, and international partners.
Notable achievements
Field and Service Robotics Lab, Space Robotics Lab, Multi-DOF wheeled, legged, and aerial robot development
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
Design and dynamic performance prediction of a novel large-aperture offset-feed deployable antenna
Chuang Shi, Tianming Liu, Ning Xue +6 more
Aerospace Science and Technology · 2026
A hierarchical approach to imitation learning for manipulation tasks requiring time varying forces
Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
Copilot: A framework for integrating LLM and BMI to enhance human–robot interaction
Siyu Liu, Mengzhen Liu, Zhiyuan Ming +6 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
Artificial pushing adaptive coordinated control for the human-exoskeleton-walker system
Xinhao Zhang, Chen Yang, Chaobin Zou +4 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
Safety-Critical Adaptive Impedance Control via Nonsmooth Control Barrier Functions under State and Input Constraints
Faisal Lawan, Xiaoran Han, Joaquin Carrasco +2 more
2026
Guide, Think, Act: Interactive Embodied Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models
Yiran Ling, Qing Lian, Jinghang Li +6 more
2026