BIGMATH aims to train a group of young, creative mathematicians with strong theoretical and practical skills, necessary to tackle the major challenges of the Big Data era. They will also be trained in a wide set of “soft skills” that enable them to transfer effectively their knowledge to the productive world, thus fostering the European [...]
AI4EU is the European Union’s landmark Artificial Intelligence project, which seeks to develop a European AI ecosystem, bringing together the knowledge, algorithms, tools and resources available and making it a compelling solution for users. Involving 80 partners, covering 21 countries, the €20m project kicked off in January 2019 and will run for three years. AI4EU will unify [...]
DURABLE will accelerate the deployment of renewable energies in the Atlantic area through the validation and demonstration of previously developed aerospace technologies applied in robotics for operation and maintenance activities in wind and solar energy systems. The supporting robots will be adapted to perform tasks of inspection/surveillance and reparation reducing the high costs of these [...]
Endowing robots with cognition is a long-standing and difficult objective. Substantial progress in cognitive science and neuroscience has led to the insight that cognition is tightly linked to the sensory and motor surfaces, and that cognition emerges during development from relatively low-level mechanisms when situated in a structured environment.Building on basic functions such as detection [...]
Our oceans are the least-explored region of planet Earth. Protection and sustainable development of ocean resources presents formidable challenges. Robots will play an increasingly key role in the near future and this role will expand and become more challenging as we extend into deeper, remote and hostile marine environments. Europe leads in many aspects of [...]
Smart cities offer a unique opportunity to demonstrate the benefits of using a variety of robotic applications in different living contexts for all European citizens. SciRoc will call for leading European robotics developers from European companies and research labs to send teams to demonstrate their technologies and systems in high profile competitive demonstrations in a [...]
Design, implementation and testing of a self-learning 'neuromorphic' eye-head orienting robotic system with bio-inspired head-motor, oculo-motor, visual and auditory systems, which is able to orient to an instructed 'goal' in a cluttered audio-visual environment. (Collaborative project with Prof. John van Opstal in the context of his ERC Advanced Grant ORIENT).
WiMUST (Widely scalable Mobile Underwater Sonar Technology) aims at conceiving and designing an intelligent team of cooperative autonomous marine robots, acting as intelligent sensing and communicating nodes of a reconfigurable moving acoustic network, that could drastically improve the efficacy of the methodologies used to perform geophysical and geotechnical acoustic surveys at sea
Humans have fascinating skills for grasping and manipulation of objects, even in complex, dynamic environments, and execute coordinated movements of the head, eyes, arms, and hands, in order to accomplish everyday tasks. When working on a shared space, during dyadic interaction tasks, humans engage in non-verbal communication, by understanding and anticipating the actions of working [...]