[ROBOTICA] José María Cañas Plaza
Full Professor on Robotics
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phone:+34 914 888 755
Office 114, Dept-III
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Camino del Molino 5
28942 Fuenlabrada (Spain)


ORCID: 0000-0003-4179-2211

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 		Full professor on Robotics at the Fuenlabrada School of Engineering, leading the RoboticsLabURJC at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.

I also head the non-profit JdeRobot organization which develops open source software on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. It is an international org that has been regularly selected at Google Summer of Code program.

MS and PhD in Telecommunication Engineering by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. I've done research in robotics at Carnegie Mellon University (USA), Georgia Institute of Technology (USA), Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (México) and Instituto de Automática Industrial (CSIC).

Research:
  • Robotics Education: RoboticsAcademy, Unibotics
  • Artificial Intelligence driven Robotics: DeepLearning, Reinforcement Learning, DRL, ImitationLearning... typically for Autonomous Driving and drones.
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Updated July 12th, 2025