The research activities in the group bring together different fields of automatics, biocybernetics, environmental medicine and robotics. The aim is to create new knowledge, as well as to develop and transfer systems and technologies to our customers in industry, medicine and sports. The most complex development was the automation line for the production of tea. The line was developed for and installed in the factory Droga Portorož. All phases of the production process, from packing into filter bags to the final palletizing, were included in this automation. Several different types of tea can be packed simultaneously on different packaging machines into filter bags and later into small boxes. The boxes are transported to the cell, where each box is identified and the weight is checked. In the following steps, the boxes, which pass the check, are covered with cellophane, sorted by type and put into bigger transport packages. Each package box is labeled with all necessary data. The boxes are then fed into robotized cell for palletizing. The implemented information systems, where all data are collected, enables tracking of the quality from the store shelf back to the substance of different tea used in particular products. An extremely complicated R&D project developed and realized by the group was the production line for Zinc/Air battery cells with an alkali electrolyte in factory Iskra Baterije Zmaj. This factory is one of the oldest producers of battery cells in Europe. The battery cell consists of the positive and negative electrode. The technology requires that the electrodes are produced separately and assembled together only in the final stage of the production. This line has now been operating for two years. The productivity and the quality of the product have increased, while the production costs have substantially been decreased. We developed a new approach to test different kinds of sport shoes based on the simulation of the sport activity with an industrial robot. We capture the forces and trajectories that occur during the sport activity. In order to capture ground reaction forces in sports activities, we developed a force measurement system, which consists of strain gauge load cells and portable measurement computer. The sport activity is recorded with a video camera and synchronized with the force and trajectory measurement, which enables identification of the movements. We then use an industrial robot that repeats the captured motion. The main benefit of this approach is that various shoes can be measured and compared under the same conditions. The method was successfully developed and applied for the testing of cross-country and alpine skis in collaboration with factory Alpina. One of the most critical aspects in shoe production automation is the lasting machine automation. Manual operation required in shoe lasting is correct positioning of both sole and upper coat on the last and feeding the lasting machine. The shoe lasting machine then glues shoe upper and shoe last. There were several attempts how to automate shoe lasting machine. In most cases they tried to align shoe upper directly on the lasting machine, but they were less successful due to the inability of the vision systems to determine correct position of the shoe upper. Shoe upper differ in size, color and design. Our fully automated shoe lasting workstation setup consists of the lasting machine, an industrial robot equipped with special gripper and upper and sole positioning device. We developed a hypoxic house for VO2max, which can simulate altitudes of up to 5500 metres above sea level. This facility is being used by mountain climbers and athletes for altitude acclimatization. Many athletes and alpinists now include the "sleep high - train low" acclimatization procedure in their regular training schedule, as part of their preparation for competitions and high altitude expeditions, respectively.