In the first part of the thesis, we consider diffeomorphisms having heterodimensional cycles associated with a pair of saddles P and Q of co-index two. We prove that diffeomorphisms with cycles, which have at least one pair of non-real central eigenvalues, generate robust heterodimensional cycles. Moreover, when both central eigenvalues are non-real, the robust cycles are associated with the continuation of the initial saddles (i.e. the cycle can be stabilized). In the second part of this work we study skew product maps over Bernoulli shifts with contracting fibers and Holder dependence on the base points. We prove that systems satisfying the covering property exhibit symbolic blenders. These blenders are generalizations of the usual blenders whose main property is that their central direction may have any dimension d greater than or equal to 1.