RobotCub Consortium
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RobotCub was a 5 years long project funded by the European Commission 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, a humanoid robot the size of a 3.5 year old child.
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[edit] Project Approach
- Platform openly distributed
- Developed software is open-source
- Open to include new partners and form collaboration worldwide
[edit] Consortium
The consortium has a multidisciplinary background ranging from developmental psychology to neurophysiology, 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
- IST Lisbon - Computer Vision and Robotics Lab Lisbon - Portugal
- Italian Institute of Technology - Dept. of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences - Genova, Italy
- Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies - ARTS Lab – Pisa – Italy
- Telerobot S.r.l. - Genova - Italy
- University of Ferrara – Department of Biomedical Science – Human Physiology - Ferrara - Italy
- University of Genova – LIRA-Lab, Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Telematica - Genova – Italy
- University of Hertfordshire – School of Computer Science - United Kingdom
- University of Salford- Centre for Robotics and Automation – Salford – United Kingdom
- University of Uppsala – Department of Psychology – Uppsala - Sweden
- University of Zurich – 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 Minnesota School of Kinesiology, Dept. of Neurology
- University of Tokyo - Department of Mechano-Informatics, Intelligent Informatics Group
[edit] Notes
The RobotCub project is not to be confused with RoboCup, i.e. "Robot Soccer World Cup".
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