The Institute of Robotics "St. Ap. and Gospeller Matthew" - Bulgarian Academy of Science (IR-BAS) is the successor to the Institute of Systems Engineering and Robotics (ISIR), created in 2010 by the merger of the Institute of Control and System Research (ICSR) - BAS and the Central Laboratory of Mechatronics and Instrumentation (CLMI) - BAS. The current name of the Institute is also a trademark of the National Patent Office.