Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics

Objective ICT-2007.2.2 Cognitive, Interaction, Robotics

Artificial systems that can achieve general goals in a largely unsupervised way and/or communicate and co-operate with people or each other.
A principled approach to structuring research in relevant areas, addressing the requirements for cognitive capacities of artificial systems and ways to meet them.
Co-ordination with related national or regional research programmes or initiatives.

Creating new products and services, and enhancing existing ones.
New markets such as: extending the industrial robotics market to flexible small scale manufacturing, opening up services (professional and domestic) markets to robots, and novel functionalities.
Robust and versatile behaviour of artificial systems in open-ended environments.
Leading-edge research in Europe through collaborative and multidisciplinary experimentation.Leading-edge technology companies creating new products and services and enhancing existing ones.