Objective ICT-2007.8.5 FET proactive 5: Embodied Intelligence

Target Outcome

New technologies and design approaches for building physically embodied intelligent agents and artefacts, with emphasis on the relationship between shape, function and the physical and social environment, and addressing one or several of the following:

• Mind-body co-development and co-evolution through permanent and extended multi-modal interaction of agents with the physical and social environment.
• Morphology and behaviour - new design principles for sensing, actuation and locomotion components.
• Design for emergence - design paradigms and techniques for purposive agents where behaviour emerges from the interaction of the the various components, the environment and its information resources.

Expected Impact

The research should advance the state of the art in intelligent systems, in particular robotics and ICT.  It should achieve robotic systems of greater morphological diversity, for a larger spectrum of uses, more natural and safer to interact with and more easily integrated in everyday environments.

Funding Schemes and Indicative Budget

• CP 19m euros of which a minimum of 10m euros to IP and a minimum 4m euros to STREP
• CSA (CA only) 1m euros