RobotCub Consortium
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European Commission
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through Unit E5 "Cognition" of the IST. The project started in 2004 and terminated in January 2010. Its goal was to study cognition through the implementation of the iCub
ICub
An iCub is a 1 metre high humanoid robot testbed for research into human cognition and artificial intelligence.It was designed by the RobotCub Consortium, of several European universities and is now supported by other projects such as ITALK. The robot is open-source, with the hardware design,...
, a humanoid robot the size of a 3.5 year old child.
Project Approach
- Platform openly distributed
- Developed software is open-source
- Open to include new partners and form collaboration worldwide
Consortium
The consortium has a multidisciplinary background ranging from developmental psychologyDevelopmental psychology
Developmental psychology, also known as human development, is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes, emotional changes, and perception changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to...
to neurophysiology
Neurophysiology
Neurophysiology is a part of physiology. Neurophysiology is the study of nervous system function...
, mechatronics, motor control in humans and robots, human-robot interaction and social robotics, vision, and robotics.
EU partners are:
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – Biologically-Inspired Robotics Group (BIRG) and Learning Algorithms and Systems Lab (LASA) – Switzerland
- ISTInstituto Superior TécnicoInstituto Superior Técnico is a reputed school of engineering, part of Universidade Técnica de Lisboa . IST is the largest and the most prestigious school of engineering in Portugal...
Lisbon - Computer Vision and Robotics Lab Lisbon - Portugal - Italian Institute of TechnologyItalian Institute of TechnologyThe Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia or Italian Institute of Technology is a foundation established jointly by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research and the Ministry of Economy and Finance to promote excellence in basic and applied research and to contribute to the economic...
- Dept. of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences - Genova, Italy - Sant'Anna School of Advanced StudiesSant'Anna School of Advanced StudiesThe Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa is a special-statute public university located in Pisa, Italy, operating in the field of applied sciences....
- ARTS Lab – Pisa – Italy - Telerobot S.r.l. - Genova - Italy
- University of FerraraUniversity of FerraraThe University of Ferrara is the main university of the city of Ferrara in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. In the years prior to the First World War the University of Ferrara, with more than 500 students, was the best attended of the free universities in Italy...
– Department of Biomedical Science – Human Physiology - Ferrara - Italy - University of Genova – LIRA-Lab, Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Telematica - Genova – Italy
- University of HertfordshireUniversity of HertfordshireThe University of Hertfordshire is a new university based largely in Hatfield, in the county of Hertfordshire, England, from which the university takes its name. It has more than 27,500 students, over 2500 staff, with a turnover of over £181m...
– School of Computer Science - United Kingdom - University of SalfordUniversity of SalfordThe University of Salford is a campus university based in Salford, Greater Manchester, England with approximately 20,000 registered students. The main campus is about west of Manchester city centre, on the A6, opposite the former home of the physicist, James Prescott Joule and the Working Class...
- Centre for Robotics and Automation – Salford – United Kingdom - University of Uppsala – Department of Psychology – Uppsala - Sweden
- University of ZurichUniversity of ZurichThe University of Zurich , located in the city of Zurich, is the largest university in Switzerland, with over 25,000 students. It was founded in 1833 from the existing colleges of theology, law, medicine and a new faculty of philosophy....
– Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of Information Technology - Zurich - Switzerland
Non-EU partners:
- ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories – Kyoto
- Communications Research Laboratory, Japan
- MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- University of MinnesotaUniversity of MinnesotaThe University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
School of Kinesiology, Dept. of Neurology - University of TokyoUniversity of Tokyo, abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university...
- Department of Mechano-Informatics, Intelligent Informatics Group