AERONAUTICAL ROBOTICS AUTOMATION LABORATORY

The Aeronautical Robotics Automation Laboratory (LARA), was inaugurated on the morning of this Tuesday, 08/27/2019. The Hawk Geo company's premises are located at the Ufam Business and Technological Development Center (CDTECH), a sector aimed at supporting companies focused on advanced technologies. The inauguration ceremony was presided over by the rector of Ufam, Professor Sylvio Puga, who highlighted the importance of CDTECH and the possibility of the newly opened Laboratory helping the University's initiatives to fight fires in the Amazon. “The University, in a concrete action, the result of a research experience, in partnership with the private sector, today inaugurates this laboratory, which is available not only to local society but also to the whole of Brazil. So that you have an idea of ​​the importance of this new laboratory, I want to share with you that I received, earlier, a message from the Ministry of Education (MEC) requesting the University's initiatives to fight fires in the Amazon and I had the great satisfaction of answering that the The opening of this laboratory at our University will be able to help a lot in this mission, since we have already experienced the potential of the Hawk Geo company in the aerial surveillance system of our University”, said the manager. CDTECH's director, Professor Luiz Roberto Nascimento, highlights CDTECH's mission to support companies focused on advanced technologies. “We are currently welcoming Hawk Geo and its laboratory Lara, of aeronautical robotics, so that, in the near future, we will have a market for services in the use of drones and even start producing these equipment. If this happens, we will certainly be promoting regional development and, at the same time, supporting entrepreneurship”, said the director. https://ufam.edu.br/noticias-destaque/440-laboratorio-de-automacao-robotica-aeronautica-e-inaugurado-na-ufam.html