Science centres

Centre for Robotics

The first robotic hand (prosthesis) in the world was constructed in Serbia in 1963. Today, approximately 270,000 people in the world use robotic prosthetic hands to help them carry out daily tasks, and over 400,000 industrial robots are installed each year to assist in the manufacturing and processing sectors.

What does the Centre do?

Robotics is one of the fastest-growing areas of technology that comes with great expectations. Robots are increasingly becoming an integral part of our daily life and work: from large factories where they have become indispensable in production, through logistics centres, to hospitals where they are used in surgery, rehabilitation and logistics, and even in agriculture, museums and restaurants for social interaction and delivery.

At the Centre for Robotics, we are focused on the development and use of new generations of robots, innovative approaches to robot control and programming, and methods that improve human-robot collaboration. Our aim is to create a more efficient and safer environment for work and application in industry and medicine.

Centre Head

Prof. Dr Kosta Jovanović

Associate Professor at the Department of Signals and Systems

Kosta Jovanović is the Associate Professor of robotics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. He obtained his PhD in 2016 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and received professional training in Germany at the SMS Siemag, at the Technical University of Munich and the DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, as a scholarship holder of the Dr. Zoran Đinđić Foundation and the German Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations and DAAD. He is the head of the research group ETF Robotics, which implemented a significant number of projects in the field of industrial and medical robotics, as well as projects supporting innovations based on robotics and artificial intelligence in small and medium-sized enterprises (Horizon programme: MUSAE, DIH-HERO, DIH2, BOWI, SHOP4CF, ReconCell, ECCEROBOT; Science Fund: ForNextCobot, CircuBot). His research interests include human-robot physical interaction, collaborative robots, novel actuator systems, robot control and software tools in robotics. He has published over 80 papers that have already been cited more than 2,000 times.

Official page

Ongoing projects

  • CircuBot
    Development of an intelligent robotic waste management platform (under the auspices of the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia)

  • MUSAE
    Development of innovations using robotics, artificial intelligence and wearable sensors in the food industry through collaboration with the creative industry (under the auspices of Horizon Europe)

  • BrAIn
    Development of a workstation based on collaborative robots and intelligent systems to improve employee satisfaction and efficiency in the workplace for small businesses (under the auspices of the Intereg programme)

Learn more about the work and activities of the Centre at ETF Robotics, LinkedIn profile for ongoing events and YouTube channel with interesting video demonstrations from the laboratory.