European Robotics and AI Network
As robots are entering unstructured environments with a large variety of tasks, they will need to quickly acquire new abilities to solve them. Humans do so very effectively through a variety of methods of knowledge transfer – demonstration, verbal explanation, writing, the Internet. In robotics, enabling the transfer of skills and software between robots, tasks, [...]
Blue Robotics for Sustainable Eco-friendly Services for innovative marinas & leisure boats
Blue RoSES aims to develop innovative services that adapt marinas and leisure boat design to changing customer demand. By integrating robotics and IoT, these new services will result in creating job opportunities and new business models. Customers will be enabled to visit underwater sites by piloting a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) from a leisure boat, [...]
Reconstructing the Past: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Meet Cultural Heritage
Our goal with this project is to develop a ground-breaking technology to virtually eliminate one of the most labour intensive and frustrating steps in archaeological research, namely the physical reconstruction of shattered artworks. Indeed, countless vases, amphoras, frescos and other ancient artefacts, all over the world, have not survived intact and were dug out from [...]
Radioactivity Monitoring in Ocean Ecosystems
Natural radioactivity in the marine environment has been present since the Earth’s formation, while artificial radionuclides were introduced into theoceans in 1944. More recent direct sources exist that feed the oceans, such as low-level liquid discharges from reprocessing plants, large-scalereleases due to disasters (e.g. Fukushima hit by the tsunami in 2011), and smaller-scale radiological events. [...]
Goal-directed eye-head coordination in dynamic multisensory environments
Rapid object identification is crucial for survival of all organisms, but poses daunting challenges if many stimuli compete for attention, and multiple sensory and motor systems are involved in the processing, programming and generating of an eye-head gaze-orienting response to a selected goal. How do normal and sensory-impaired brains decide which signals to integrate (“goal”), [...]