RobotCub Consortium
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RobotCub is a 5 years long project funded by the European Commission through Unit E5 "Cognition" of the IST. Started in 2004, its goal is to study cognition through the implementation of a humanoid robot the size of a 2 year old child: the iCub.
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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, vision, and robotics.
Actual EU partners are:
- University of Genova – LIRA-Lab, Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Telematica - Genova – Italy
- Italian Institute of Technology - Dept. of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences - Genova, Italy
- Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies - ARTS Lab – Pisa – Italy
- University of Zurich – Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of Information Technology - Zurich - Switzerland
- University of Uppsala – Department of Psychology – Uppsala - Sweden
- University of Ferrara – Department of Biomedical Science – Human Physiology - Ferrara - Italy
- University of Hertfordshire – Department of Computer Science - United Kingdom
- IST Lisbon - Computer Vision and Robotics Lab Lisbon - Portugal
- University of Salford- Centre for Robotics and Automation – Salford – United Kingdom
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – Biologically-Inspired Robotics Group (BIRG) and Learning Algorithms and Systems Lab (LASA) – Switzerland
- Telerobot S.r.l. - Genova - Italy
Non-EU partners:
- MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- University of Minnesota School of Kinesiology, Dept. of Neurology
- Communications Research Laboratory, Japan
- University of Tokyo - Department of Mechano-Informatics, Intelligent Informatics Group
- ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories – Kyoto
[edit] Notes
The RobotCub project is not to be confused with RoboCup, i.e. "Robot Soccer World Cup".
