Aldebaran Robotics is a member of an international research consortium created under the impulse of the sixth European call to project, on the development of robotics in Europe.
Financed by the European Commission (FP6 IST-0455169), this consortium aim at carrying out multi-disciplinary investigation of « global » (emotional – social – physical) development as a suitable approach to produce robot systems. It have to be the more flexible, cost-effective, modular, safe, dependable, robust and user-driven robot systems that in the future will closely cooperate with people in everyday human environments.
Feelix Growing is a part of the 6th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development of the European Commission.
The Feelix Growing consortium count 8 members:
Main objectives :
- Identify key roles of emotions (FEEL), social and physical interaction (Interact), and expressive behaviour (eXpress) and their interactions in bootstrapping and driving development in natural and robotic systems.
- Apply “global approach” to improve a selection of current developmental models and robotic architectures particularly promising towards the development of future robots cooperating in everyday human environments.
- Identify and specify cross-disciplinary benchmarks (scenarios and methods) for a comparative evaluation, with a view to contributing towards future standardization.
- Establish a platform for a grounded multidisciplinary approach that can provide a long term vision and research roadmap for advanced developmental robotics well beyond this investigation.
Right to left : Philippe Gaussier from the UCP-ETIS Laboratory, Lola Cañamero from Hertfordshire University and consortium coordinator, Bruno Maisonnier and Fabien Bardinet from Aldebaran Robotics.
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