Justo Dario Valverde

Justo Dario Valverde Torres

Robotics Engineering Student at URJC

Passionate about robotics, programming and real world solutions

About Me

Hi, I’m Justo, a Robotics Software Engineering student passionate about building real robots and learning how autonomous systems work in practice. I’m always looking for hands-on opportunities involving mapping, perception, and robot control.

Currently, I lead the SCARA project at RoboTech (URJC Student Association) in which along my team, our goal is to build an autonomous chess-playing robot. Additionally, I have been designing and bulding a quadruped robot from scratch as a side project.

This year, I’m drafting a publication-style project paper on reactive locomotion control for low-cost quadrupeds, based on my latest personal project: a servo-actuated quadruped “robot cat”.

Outside robotics, I enjoy hands-on building, boxing, fishing, video games, creative 3D design, and international experiences.

Experience

Técnico Solar Boat: Autonomous Systems Member — Mapping Responsible

Aug 2025 - Mar 2026

Responsible for the mapping implementation within the autonomous navigation stack.

RoboTech Student Association: Treasurer & SCARA Project Lead

Jan 2025 - Present

The SCARA Project aims to combine advanced control systems with AI-based decision making to enable our robot to play chess autonomously.

Projects

Quadruped Robot

12-DOF servo-actuated quadruped robot developed in ROS 2.

Teleoperated Car

Europe Embodied 48h Hackathon: Wendy Challenge, quadruped robot autonomous navigation and human robot interaction for factory inspection

AI Hackathon: Image classification model fine tunning and atari boxing agent training

Mapfre Hackathon: Mental health care app

Openred Hackathon: Gamma Radiation data lecture and upload to database

Qubic and Vottun Hackathon: Crypto QR transfers

Education

B.Sc. Robotics Software Engineering

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (2023 - Present)

Focus on control, robot software architecture, embedded systems and programming(ros2, c++).

Erasmus Exchange Student, MSc Electrical and Computer Engineering

Instituto Superior Técnico (Sept. 2025 - Feb. 2026)

Erasmus exchange semester at Instituto Superior Técnico, where I studied courses from the MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering focusing on robotics.

SMEE International Summer School

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (July 2026)

International summer school focused on creativity, robots and future technologies, mechatronics, robotics and automation engineering.

Skills & Technologies

ROS2ROS2
C++C++
FoxgloveFoxglove
PythonPython
ROS2 ControlROS2 Control
GazeboGazebo

Contact

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