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Title: European Training Network on PErsonalized Robotics as SErvice Oriented applications
Duration: 48 months
Starting Date: 01/01/2021

Web Site: www.perseo.eu

 

PROJECT SYNOPSIS

The ETN on PErsonalized Robotics as SErvice Oriented applications – PERSEO – aims at training a new generation of research and professional figures able to face the research challenges of the market of personal robots. The personal robotics domain presents several research challenges mainly related to the need for a high degree of personalization of the robot behaviour with respect to the specific user’s needs and preferences. Companies need to build solutions rooted in a deeper analysis of humans’ specificities before developing products for people. At the same time, academia needs to nurture the development of an extended research community with a set of interdisciplinary skills to investigate different robot’s capabilities for understanding and modelling the interaction with human beings, for adapting the robot’s behaviour to the context, and software integration mechanisms that allow an easy personalized configuration approach to limit the static and costly customization processes of a novel robotic system. The PERSEO’s research program is organized into three Research Themes aimed at investigating personalization of robot capabilities at different levels of possible human-robot interaction, namely “Physical”, “Cognitive”, and “Social”. This requires a set of research skills ranging from computer science and AI to automation, ethics, and psychology. Fellows will deepen their knowledge in projects covering a specific research theme but, through training events, secondments, and peer collaborations will gain extensive knowledge in other areas so leading to a multidisciplinary research programme and the integration with other projects to achieve the proposed Integration Milestones. The project also aims at training Early Stage Researchers to address social, legal, and ethical issues that arise by the uptake of personal robots, as such skills are fundamental to achieve technological innovation which aligns with European social, ethical al legal values.

PARTNERS

– Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Cooridnator)
– The University of Manchester
– Sheffield Hallam University
– Technische Universitaet Muenchen
– Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
– PAL Robotics SL
– Universitat Wien
– Universitaet Bielefeld
– Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento S anna
– Noosware BV
– Technische Universiteat Wien

FUNDING

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 955778

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