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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, research groups, and application domains will be a game changer for scaling up the robot abilities.

euROBIN therefore proposes a threefold strategy:

First, leading experts from the European robotics and AI research community will tackle the questions of transferability in four main scientific areas:

1) boosting physical interaction capabilities, to increase safety and reliability, as well as energy efficiency
2) using machine learning to acquire new behaviors and knowledge about the environment and the robot and to adapt to novel situations
3) enabling robots to represent, exchange, query, and reason about abstract knowledge
4) ensuring a human-centric design paradigm, that takes the needs and expectations of humans into account, making AI-enabled robots accessible, usable and trustworthy.

Second, the relevance of the scientific outcomes will be demonstrated in three application domains that promise to have substantial impact on industry, innovation, and civil society in Europe.
1) robotic manufacturing for a circular economy
2) personal robots for enhanced quality of life
3) outdoor robots for sustainable communities.
Advances are made measurable by collaborative competitions.
 
Finally, euROBIN will create a sustainable network of excellence to foster exchange and inclusion. Software, data and knowledge will be exchanged over the EuroCore repository, designed to become a central platform for robotics in Europe.
The vision of euROBIN is a European ecosystem of robots that share their data and knowledge and exploit their diversity to jointly learn to perform the endless variety of tasks in human environments.
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What we want

Objectives

Cognition-enabled transferable embodied AI is the main goal of the euROBIN research agenda and the network of excellence that emerges from it. Scientifically, euROBIN will take a new and integrated perspective in designing the future ecosystem of heterogeneous intelligent machines interacting with humans. Therefore, euROBIN will substantially advance four core scientific topics:

  •  InterAct
  •  Learning transfer
  •  Transferable knowledge
  •  Human-center transfer
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Consortium partners
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Academic partners
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Industrial partners
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Researchers
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ERC grants
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Countries involved
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European cities
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Network EU projects
What we do

Methodology

The basic elements enabling intensive and prolific collaboration within the euROBIN excellence network are:

  •  Cooperative Competitions and Hackathons
  •  Cognition-Enabled Transferable Embodied AI
  •  The European Robotics Collaborative Repository EuroCore
  •  Annual Scientific Workshops and Science-Industry Dialog
  •  The Brain Magnet program for Young Researchers and Scientific Fellows
  •  Cascade funding instruments
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Open Call Beneficiaries

Since its start, euROBIN has evolved into a broader European network, bringing together not only its founding partners but also new members who have joined through the project’s Open Calls.

These new beneficiaries contribute fresh perspectives, experiments, and technologies that further strengthen the collaborative robotics and AI ecosystem established by euROBIN.

Here you can find the list of euROBIN Open Call Beneficiaries who are now part of our growing community. For more detailed information read the full article.

1st Open Call – Collaborative Projects

  • HARD-HAT — Ingeniarius, Lda. (Portugal)

  • SYNERWEEE — Clearbox AI Solutions SRL (Italy)

  • SMARTEX — STAM S.r.l. (Italy)

  • HANDL — Bendabl Private Company (Greece)

  • INSURE — Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy)

  • LoMaCoR — CyberCortex Robotics SRL (Romania)

  • NEXT-FORGE — Institute of Information and Communication Technology (Bulgaria)

  • ORMS-Lib — Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Italy)

  • INCOST — Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (Germany)

  • ATLAS — École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (France)

  • SIMBAY-GRASP — FCiências.ID–Assoc. Investigação e Desenvolvimento (Portugal)

  • MAGPIE — Rovimatica S.L. (Spain)

The euROBIN network main vision

A European ecosystem of robots that share their data and knowledge and are able, based on their diversity, to jointly learn to perform the endless variety of tasks in human environments.
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Specific issues addressed by the euROBIN network

To support the society in its multitude of challenges by AI-based robotics and automation, Europe requires an ecosystem of robots that can be quickly adapted to new needs, by easily transferring and spreading capabilities among application domains and between robot types. Hence, the European robotics research community needs to interconnect its best labs through network instruments, which facilitate the emergence of an AI-powered and Cognitively enabled ecosystem of robots.
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Partner list

CREATE-DIH is focused to guide local SMEs and Mid-Caps in adopting agile manufacturing with Robotics and Automation, also, connecting companies to other ecosystems & supporting their business in robotic technologies
CREATE
CREATE
Academic partner
The DLR (German Aerospace Center) Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics develops a wide array of robots to enable humans to interact more safely and efficiently with their surrounding environments.
DLR
DLR
Project coordinator
The University of Twente is a leading research and education institution and the most innovative university in the Netherlands with more than 1000 spin-off generated among which unicorns like Booking.com and Takeaway.com.
TWENTE
TWENTE
Academic partner
"FundingBox is Europe’s Largest Deep Tech Funding Ecosystems. We help startups, scale-ups and entrepreneurs like you ignite their growth and rewrite their future now through easy-to-apply funding opportunities, exclusive partnerships with global brands and community knowledge."
FundingBox Accelerator
FundingBox Accelerator
Industrial partner
Imec is a world-leading R&D and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies to enable a new generation of human centered robotics.
IMEC
IMEC
Industrial partner
TECNALIA is the largest center of applied research and technological development in Spain, a benchmark in Europe and a member of the Basque Research and Technology Alliance.
TECNALIA
TECNALIA
Industrial partner
ABB is a leading global technology company that energizes the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future.
ABB
ABB
Industrial partner
Inria is the French national research institute for digital science and technology. World-class research, technological innovation and entrepreneurial risk are its DNA.
INRIA
INRIA
Academic partner
The Institute for Artificial Intelligence investigates methods for cognition-enabled robot control. The research is at the intersection of robotics and Artificial Intelligence and includes methods for intelligent perception, dexterous object manipulation, plan-based robot.
University of Bremen
University of Bremen
Academic partner
IST-ID is a private not-for-profit institution. Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) is a founding associate of IST-ID and it is part of the U. Lisboa. Its mission is to provide higher education and develop research in the areas of Engineering and Architecture.
IST-ID
IST-ID
Academic partner
The GRVC Robotics Laboratory of the University of Seville has about 70 members playing a relevant international role in aerial robotics and unmanned aerial vehicles, combining research, technology development and transfer to companies in several European and national projects.
University of Seville
University of Seville
Academic partner
The Chair of High Performance Humanoid Technologies (H²T) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) researches and develops humanoid robot technologies and systems that perform versatile tasks in the real world in interaction with humans.
KIT - H2T
KIT - H2T
Academic partner
The Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning (RPL) performs research in robotics, computer vision and machine learning. Robotic systems that provide advanced service in industry, for search and rescue operations, in medical applications or as assistants to elderly people.
KTH
KTH
Academic partner
Sorbonne University is a multidisciplinary and research-intensive university. The Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR) is Sorbonne's multidisciplinary robotics lab, bringing together researchers and academics.
Sorbonne University
Sorbonne University
Academic partner
The Machine Learning Research Lab at Volkswagen Group focuses on fundamental machine learning research for probabilistic inference, time series modelling, efficient exploration, and control. Our work starts from probability theory, through neural networks, to applications.
Volkswagen Group
Volkswagen Group
Industrial partner
The Robotic Systems Lab develops machines and their intelligence to operate autonomously in rough and challenging environments. With a large focus on robots with arms and legs (e.g. quadrupedal robots, mobile manipulators, hybrid wheel-leg systems).
ETH
ETH
Academic partner
CVUT – Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) is one of the oldest technical universities in Europe (founded in 1707). It provides high-quality education for more than 18,000 students in 8 faculties and 5 institutes with stress on technical science, engineering and industry.
CTU
CTU
Academic partner
The Danish Technological Institute (DTI) develops, applies and transfers technology to industry and society. DTI’s main activities in robotics are located in Odense in the Centre for Robot Technology. We are a leading European robotics innovator with more than 45 robotic experts.
DTI
DTI
Academic partner
EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, is one of the most dynamic university campuses in Europe and ranks among the top 20 universities worldwide.
EPFL
EPFL
Academic partner
PAL Robotics develops state-of-the-art robots specially designed to solve our customers’ needs worldwide. Today we are known for our robots for research as well as our retail and manufacturing solutions. Our mission is to enhance people’s quality of life through service robotics.
PAL robotics
PAL robotics
Industrial partner
The University of Pisa is a public institution funded in 1343 with twenty departments, and high level research centres. The Research Center “E.Piaggio” of the University of Pisa is one of the oldest interdisciplinary research and technology transfer centers in Europe.
Research Center Enrico Piaggio
Research Center Enrico Piaggio
Academic partner
Fraunhofer IPA – one of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft’s largest institutes – was founded in 1959 and employs nearly 1200 workers. The focus of our research and development work is on organizational and technological issues related to the manufacturing industry.
Fraunhofer IPA
Fraunhofer IPA
Industrial partner
Located in the prosperous capital of Bavaria and home to over 39000 students, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is one of the world’s top universities (top 4 European technical universities in The World University Ranking).
Technical University of Munich
Technical University of Munich
Academic partner
The robotics research at Jožef Stefan Institute is primarily conducted at the Dept, of Automatics, Biocybernetics, and Robotics. This group focuses on robot learning, human-robot interraction, humanoids & wearable devices, and industrial robotics.
Jožef Stefan Institute
Jožef Stefan Institute
Academic partner