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New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: Co4Robots

SPARC 09 Jun 2017

In 2016, the European Union co-funded 17 new robotics projects from the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for research and innovation. 16 of these resulted from the robotics work programme, and 1 proje...

New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: BADGER

SPARC 26 May 2017

New Horizon 2020 robotics projects, 2016: An.Dy

SPARC 19 May 2017

New Horizon 2020 robotics projects – 2016 presented at #ERF2017

SPARC 27 Apr 2017

Two Horizon 2020 projects researching EU Digital Industrial Platform for Robotics

Carlos Hernandez Corbato and Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni 18 Apr 2017

Market pull for better factory automation and the ever-increasing relevance of software in every domain are triggering a rethink in how we develop software for robotics. Techniques such as Model Driv...

European Robotics League gearing up for 2017-2018 season

SPARC 11 Apr 2017

The European Robotics League has closed a successful first season. Funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme for research, the ERL brings a common framework for two indoor robotics compe...

Ocado evaluating robotic manipulation for online shopping orders

Graham Deacon 21 Feb 2017

Ocado, the world’s largest online-only supermarket, has been evaluating the feasibility of robotic picking and packing of shopping orders in its highly-automated warehouses through the SoMa project,...

New Horizon 2020 robotics projects starting in 2017

Robohub Editors 21 Dec 2016

The list of the new H2020 project in robotics from Call 3 2016 and the call under Societal Challenges 2016 is ready. The 17 robotics projects funded under Horizon 2020 will work with a wide variety o...

Latest release of Multi-Annual Roadmap (MAR) for Horizon 2020 now online

Robohub Editors 07 Dec 2016

Europe’s roadmap for robotics released its latest version on 2 December. The MAR is updated annually as priorities, technologies and strategic developments shape European research development and i...

Space for the masses as helium balloons and remote control planes reach through the stratosphere

Horizon Magazine 21 Nov 2016

Space will soon be within the grasp of everyday people, small countries, researchers or start-up companies thanks to a fleet of low-cost launch vehicles under development across Europe. From remote...

Future robots will learn through curiosity and self-generated goals

Gianluca Baldassarre and Vieri Giuliano Santucci 27 Oct 2016

Imagine a friend asking for help to tidy up her room that is full of objects and furniture. Now imagine for some reason your friend will not be there to help (we are all lazy) and she just describes, ...

Robots at #ERW2015: From imagination to market

Adriana Hamacher 27 Nov 2015

[clear] Bridging the gap between cutting-edge research in academia and the vibrant robotics startup ecosystem is no easy task. This Wednesday in the UK city of Bristol, a free public event titled ...

#ERF2015 webcam: Horizon2020 project pitches Part I

Adriana Hamacher and Robohub Editors 13 Mar 2015

The sixth edition of the European Robotics Forum brought together at least 600 scientists, companies, and robotics officials. We were there to capture pitches for the latest wave of robotics projects ...

2 agricultural robotics projects funded under latest Horizon 2020

John Payne 27 Jan 2015

On January 13 the EU announced its list of robotics projects funded under Horizon 2020, the EU funding program for research and innovation. Agriculture is one of four “priority domains” for robot...

$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...

European Commission reveals details of proposed cuts to science | Science

Hallie Siegel 16 Jan 2015

A controversial plan to use research funds to pay for economic stimulusbecame more concrete this week, as European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker unveiled proposed legislation to implement t...