Project description Embodied Intelligence Show the project objective Hide the project objective The octopus is a marine invertebrate with amazing motor capabilities and intelligent behaviour. Its body has no rigid structures and has interesting characteristics, from an engineering viewpoint: infinite number of degrees of freedom (dof), bending in many different directions, variable and controllable stiffness, high dexterity, fine manipulation, highly distributed control. The octopus represents a biological demonstration of how effective behaviour in the real world is tightly related to the morphology of the body.The grand challenge of the OCTOPUS IP is investigating and understanding the principles that give rise to the octopus sensory-motor capabilities and at incorporating them in new design approaches and ICT and robotics technologies to build an embodied artefact, based broadly on the anatomy of the 8-arm body of an octopus, and with similar performance in water, in terms of dexterity, speed, control, flexibility, and applicability.The new technologies expected to result from the IP concern actuation (soft actuators), sensing (distributed flexible tactile sensors), control and robot architectures (distributed control, coordination of many dof), materials (variable stiffness), mechanisms (soft-bodied hydrostat structures), kinematics models.The final robotic octopus prototype will be capable of locomotion on different substrates, of squeezing into small apertures, of dextrous manipulation by coordinating the eight arms, of anchoring in order to exert forces on external environment; of controlling a flexible structure with virtually infinite dof.This IP is expected to achieve new science and new technology, demonstrated by joint publications and patents, through a truly interdisciplinary research work programme, by a consortium of engineering and biology groups, each involving diverse disciplines and all experienced in biomimetics, possessing, as a consortium, the best expertise available in Europe for pursuing the objectives of the IP. Fields of science medical and health sciencesbasic medicineanatomy and morphologyengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2007.8.5 - Embodied intelligence Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2007-3 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA EU contribution € 2 000 000,00 Address PIAZZA MARTIRI DELLA LIBERTA 33 56127 Pisa Italy See on map Region Centro (IT) Toscana Pisa Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Cecilia Laschi (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all University of Zurich Switzerland EU contribution € 956 580,00 Address RAMISTRASSE 71 8006 ZURICH See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Lijin Aryananda (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS Greece EU contribution € 844 459,00 Address N PLASTIRA STR 100 70013 Irakleio See on map Region Νησιά Αιγαίου Κρήτη Ηράκλειο Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Dimitris Tsakiris (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM Israel EU contribution € 1 059 460,00 Address EDMOND J SAFRA CAMPUS GIVAT RAM 91904 Jerusalem See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Eran Vardi (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE Israel EU contribution € 781 556,00 Address HERZL STREET 234 7610001 Rehovot See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Talia Tzahor (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA Italy EU contribution € 1 221 700,00 Address VIA MOREGO 30 16163 Genova See on map Region Nord-Ovest Liguria Genova Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact SARA PITTALUGA (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON United Kingdom EU contribution € 238 462,00 Address KINGSTON LANE UB8 3PH Uxbridge See on map Region London Outer London — West and North West Harrow and Hillingdon Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Teresa Waller (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THE UNIVERSITY OF READING Participation ended United Kingdom EU contribution € 497 783,00 Address WHITEKNIGHTS CAMPUS WHITEKNIGHTS HOUSE RG6 6AH Reading See on map Region South East (England) Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Berkshire Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Liz Stansfield (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data