RobotCub Consortium

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.

Project Approach

* Platform openly distributed
* Developed software is open-source
* Open to include new partners and form collaboration worldwide

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
* [http://www.iit.it 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

Notes

The RobotCub project is not to be confused with RoboCup, i.e. "Robot Soccer World Cup".

External links

* [http://www.robotcub.org/ RobotCub website]