Objective The ultimate objective of the NEUROBOTICS project is very ambitious, yet clear and well defined: to introduce a discontinuity in the robot design, thus going literally "Beyond Robotics". This discontinuity will be pursued by a strategic alliance between Neuroscience and Robotics, which will go well beyond present, mostly fragmented, collaborations, and lead to overcome state-of-the-art of robotics worldwide.The scientific, technological and cultural environment in Europe is mature to face this challenge, whose impact in engineering and medicine could be comparable to that recognized to "big science" projects. NEUROBOTICS will systematically explore the area of Hybrid Bionic Systems (HBSs) and will deeply investigate the theme of human augmentation. Starting from the most advanced state of the art in neuroscience, NEUROBOTICS will aim at developing new integrated robotic artefacts, as much biomorphic as required to be effectively interfaced with human body and brain.Three robotic platforms featuring different levels of hybridness (i.e. mechanical coupling with the human body) and of connectivity (to the human nervous system) will be developed to be used in experiments on human augmentation: biomimetic scalable artefacts to be remotely controlled by human operator; intelligent wearable artefacts loosely physically coupled with the human body; arm-hand sub-systems tightly physically coupled with the human body. NEUROBOTICS will provide general answers on how the field of human augmentation can be approached with methods, tools, and aims that have a solid scientific foundation, keeping into account the ethical and societal perspective.The "heritage" of NEUROBOTICS will be the kernel of a new community of European researchers, with strong links to non-European top scientists (e.g. in US and Japan), able to dominate the scientific, technical, industrial, societal and ethical aspects of this novel discipline and to exploit it to the benefit of the EU citizens. Fields of science natural sciencesbiological sciencesneurobiologyengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2002-2.3.4.2 - FET pro-actives Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme IP - Integrated Project Coordinator SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO SANT'ANNA Address Piazza martiri della liberta, 33 56127 Pisa Italy See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (16) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 3, rue michel-ange 75794 Paris cedex 16 See on map COLLEGE DE FRANCE France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 11, place marcelin berthelot 75005 Paris See on map DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT- UND RAUMFAHRT E.V. Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Linder hoehe 51147 Koeln See on map FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Hansastrasse 27c 80686 Muenchen See on map KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET Sweden EU contribution € 0,00 Address Solnavaegen 1 171 77 Solna stockholm See on map KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN Belgium EU contribution € 0,00 Address Oude markt 13 3000 Leuven See on map KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN Sweden EU contribution € 0,00 Address Valhallavaegen 79 100 44 Stockholm See on map NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address 9, heroon polytechniou str. 15773 Athens See on map PONTEDERA AND TECNOLOGIA SOCIETA' CONSORTILE A RESPONSABILITA' LIMITATA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Viale rinaldo piaggio 7 56025 Pontedera See on map UMEA UNIVERSITET Sweden EU contribution € 0,00 Address C/o ekonomi adm enheten 901 87 Umea See on map UNIVERSITA "CAMPUS BIO-MEDICO" DI ROMA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via emilio longoni 83 00155 Roma See on map UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FERRARA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via savonarola 9 44100 Ferrara See on map UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via balbi 5 16126 Genova See on map UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via universita 12 43100 Parma See on map UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Campus universitari s/n 08290 Bellaterra (cerdanyola del valles) See on map UNIVERSITE PARIS VI France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Place jussieu 4 75252 Paris cedex 05 See on map
