The euROBIN project continues to make progress and our euROBIN Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) is now ready.
Robotics has made remarkable advances over the last two decades, progressively extending its scope beyond industrial automation.
The continuing advance of these research trends in this field is now converging with the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence techniques, and we have created a roadmap to address the continuing advance of both AI and embodied robotics, i.e. artificial intelligence embedded in physical bodies interacting with the environment, with other intelligent agents and with humans; its research, the challenges it faces and what is actually needed for its deployment in line with the European goals of sustainability, equity and economic growth.
This euROBIN project document includes our proposed Strategic Agenda for Robotics in Europe, an analysis of the problems solved and the challenges remaining, as well as the successes, obstacles and remaining challenges in both robotics and AI.
The document has been prepared by leading experts in the field from across the EU and with the collaboration of many others who have contributed their vision to make euROBIN's SRA a key building block to position Europe as a world leader in technological and ethical, impactful and sustainable innovation.
We would like to thank especially Aude Billiard, our euROBIN Scientific Director and the whole EPFL team for their work, also Antonio Bicchi (Italian Institute of Technology), Tamim Asfour (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Bram Vanderborght (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Imec, Belgium), Danica Kragic (School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Loredana Zollo (Director of the PhD program in Bioengineering, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma), Bruno Siciliano (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy), Serena Ivaldi (Inria), Rebecca Schedl-Warpup (euROBIN project Coordinator and German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Pedro Lima (Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR-Lisboa), Juan Antonio Pavón Losada (euROBIN Proyect communicatio lead) and the euROBIN team involved.
Thank you very much all those who have participated with their valuable contributions!
You can read and download the full document here.