Researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and University of Florence are developing a bio-inspired robot equipped with special chemical sensors able to detect the pH of water. A group of researchers from Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR CSIC-UPM) in collaboration with researchers from University of Florence are designing autonomous underwater vehicle with biosensors to monitor water quality.

Researchers at UPM have revealed the underlying order of chaos by observing very long and intense laser light beams and ionised matter in so-called "light filaments". Observed for first time in solids in 1964 and in the air in 1994, the "light filamentation" phenomenon has been recently explained by researchers from the Complex Systems Group (GSC) at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM).