Description du projet
Améliorer l’autonomie et les performances physiques des robots pour l’interaction et la rééducation
Les robots personnels de prochaine génération seront dotés d’une intelligence cognitive et motrice capable d’améliorer l’interaction humaine. Les paradigmes actuels de l’IA et de la robotique nécessitent toutefois des ressources supplémentaires pour atteindre des performances et des capacités de raisonnement similaires à celles des humains. Le projet PRIMI, financé par l’UE, intègre des recherches en neurophysiologie, en psychologie et en intelligence artificielle afin de formuler des modèles pour les capacités cognitives d’ordre supérieur. L’objectif consiste à ouvrir une nouvelle ère de technologies autonomes qui présentent une précision, une vitesse et une sécurité accrues dans le cadre de processus d’apprentissage et d’adaptation en temps réel. PRIMI espère avoir un impact transformateur sur l’IA et la robotique, grâce au développement de robots autonomes socialement interactifs. Pour valider cette vision, des prototypes de robots humanoïdes neuromorphiques feront l’objet d’études cliniques pilotes axées sur la rééducation après un accident vasculaire cérébral.
Objectif
The next generation of personal robotic systems needs to reach a level of cognition and motor intelligence that provides autonomy in any environment, effective interaction with humans, and adaptation of their actions to a broad range of open, dynamic situations. Robots are expected to be able to predict perceptual and functional changes that result from human actions and replicate human activities taking into consideration their own capabilities and limitations.
The required human-like physical performance and reasoning cannot be achieved with the mainstream AI and robotics paradigms, because they are missing the required co-design of body (robot) and mind (AI) and are based on inefficient computing and sensing resources that cannot be scaled up to the required level.
To go beyond what is currently possible, PRIMI will synergistically combine research and development in neurophysiology, psychology, machine intelligence, cognitive mechatronics, neuromorphic engineering, and humanoid robotics to build developmental models of higher-cognition abilities – mental imagery, abstract reasoning, and theory of mind – boosted by energy-efficient event-driven computing and sensing. It will produce a new unifying concept for the next generation of autonomous interaction technologies, capable of more autonomous, faster, safer, and precise interaction with real-time learning and adaptation, thanks to the integration of the capabilities to mentally represent themselves, the physical and social worlds, resemble experiences and simulate actions.
PRIMI’s ambition is to induce a paradigm shift in AI and robotics to create truly autonomous socially interactive robots, which will offer new technological perspectives for transforming personal robotic services.
As a proof-of-principle of the technological advancement in a relevant scenario, prototypes of neuromorphic humanoid robots will be validated in clinical pilot studies of robot-led physical rehabilitation of stroke survivors.
Champ scientifique
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicinephysiotherapy
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticsautonomous robots
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmechatronics
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learningdeep learning
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicineneurologystroke
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
16163 Genova
Italie