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Teaching robots to exchange knowledge with other robots

The world of robotics is destined to become remarkable. Robots are entering a large number of sectors – from collaborative robots (cobots) working alongside human workers to medical robots. To support us in our daily life, robots are entering unstructured environments which require that the exchange of skills and software with other robots. In this context, the EU-funded euROBIN will propose a strategy for a European ecosystem of robots that share their data and knowledge and jointly learn to perform an endless variety of tasks in human environments. The project will bring together leading experts from the European robotics and AI research community to share their algorithms and data.

Objective

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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Call for proposal

HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01

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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

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DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV
Net EU contribution
€ 3 825 737,50
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LINDER HOHE
51147 Koln
Germany

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Nordrhein-Westfalen Köln Köln, Kreisfreie Stadt
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€ 3 825 737,50

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