Professor Aníbal Ollero Baturone takes office as a full member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Seville

The Royal Academy of Sciences of Seville (RASC) will hold a solemn session on June 18 at the Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville to mark the investiture Professor of Systems and Automation Engineering, Mr. Aníbal Ollero Baturone, as a full member.

During the ceremony, the new academic will deliver his speech entitled:

“Aerial robots that are autonomous, efficient, and safe”

The intervention will be answered by Mr. Javier Aracil Santonja, a full member of the institution.

🗓 Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025
🕖 Time: 7:00 PM
📍 Location: Auditorium of the Higher Technical School of Engineering,
Avda. Camino de los Descubrimientos s/n, 41092, Seville

This event represents a new addition of excellence to the RASC, in a session open to those who wish to accompany the renowned professor. 

Anibal Ollero Baturone 

He is the director of the GRVC Robotics Laboratory at the Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville, which has averaged over 70 members in the last 5 years, as well as the Scientific Director of the Advanced Center for Aerospace Technologies (CATEC) in Seville. He has been a Professor at the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and Málaga, and a researcher at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA) and at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse (France).

He is the author of more than 900 publications, including more than 250 journal articles, 11 books and 16 edited books, being, according to Scopus, the author with the most publications on UAVs, aerial robotics and aerial manipulators.

He has led more than 190 research projects, including 45 international projects, and has coordinated seven European Commission Framework Programme project consortia on aerial robotics. He currently coordinates AERIAL-CORE, with 15 partners from 10 countries, on the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques in aerial robotics. He holds an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council to develop a new generation of bio-inspired aerial robots. He has transferred technologies through 89 contracts with 48 companies. He is the director of the Spanish Robotics Digital Innovation Hub (https://robotics-dih.eu/es/).

He has supervised 50 doctoral theses. He is an IEEE Fellow, co-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and coordinator of the Aerial Robotics Topic Group at euRobotics. He was a member of the euRobotics Board of Directors until March 2019 and founder and president of the Spanish Society for Robotics Research and Development (SEIDROB) until November 2017.

He has received 32 awards and distinctions, including the National Engineering Research Award (2021), the King Jaume I Award in New Technologies (2019), Overall Winner of the European Commission's ICT Innovation Radar Award (2017), chosen among the three European innovators of 2017 and among the candidates for European personalities of 2017 (European Business Summit, 2018), coordinator of the winning team of Challenge 3 of the 2020 MBZIRC International Robotics Competition, Andalusia Award for Engineering Development, FAMA Award from the University of Seville, National Automation Award 2022, First EU Drone Award, Best drone based application, Second EURON-EUROP 2010 Award for technology transfer, and other awards for the best work presented at various congresses and societies.

He is a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain and the Royal Academy of Sciences of Galicia, and has also recently been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Malaga.