EU Robotics

The Robot Economy: Interview with MEP Mady Delvaux

SPARC 08 Oct 2016

In our final interview in The Robot Economy series, we speak with Mady Delvaux, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and Chair of the Working Group on robotics. Mady has written an extensive draft ...

The Robot Economy: Interview with Alan Manning

SPARC 27 Sep 2016

In today’s interview, we sat down with Alan Manning, Professor of Labour Economics at the London School of Economics. He is a leading author in his field, particularly in understanding the imperfect...

Mining and nuclear decommissioning: Robots in dangerous and dirty areas

SPARC 03 Jun 2016

Workers have long confronted dangerous and dirty jobs. They’ve had to dig to the bottom of mines, or put themselves in harm's way to decommission ageing nuclear sites. It’s time to make these jobs...

Lots of great events lined up for EU Robotics Week #ERW15

Sabine Hauert 26 Oct 2015

The European Robotics Week, organised by euRobotics AISBL and taking place Nov 23-29 2015, brings together hundreds of robotics events across Europe. Over the past five years, the event has attracted ...

$87 million in European robotic projects funded

Frank Tobe 20 Jan 2015

The EU has co-funded 17 new robotics-related projects under Horizon 2020, the mechanism that the European Commission is using to stimulate the region's global competitiveness in technical innovation...