euROBIN 3rd Open Call for the Technology Exchange Programme

1 Creation of manipulation tasks dataset with vision and language instructions
2 Defining and evaluating the transferability gap for possible exploitation
3 Network Protocol for Energy aware software and hardware components
4 Use of AI Tools for the Design of Aerial Manipulation Robots for Parcel Delivery
5 Use of Soft Optical Tactile Sensor to Increase Resilience and Robustness in Real-World Aerial Robotics Manipulation
6 Intuitive Augmented Reality Interface for Robot Teaching
7 Sustainable self healing materials for novel robot bodies for manufacturing
8 Dataset of natural human-robot interactions for hospitality robots
9 Expressive voice synthesis for social robots
10 Recognition and simulation of cloth states and behavior during manipulation
11 Datasets and algorithms for robot learning from simulated interactions
12 Embodied AI for Adaptive Perception and Manipulation of Deformable Cloth

The Support Programme will last from 3 to 12 months, depending on the number of people assigned to the project and the overall costs set per month. The maximum amount of financial support to be granted to each selected third-party project under the 3rd Open Call of the Technology Exchange Programme is up to €60 000.

It is expected that participants contribute to the design, development, and validation of:
• Perception methods for the realization of complex manipulation tasks, or for the navigation in either domestic environments or in outdoor urban scenarios.
• Software modules that extend the range of functionalities of robots to conduct daily life tasks and facilitate interaction with human users.
• Novel mechanisms that improve the dexterity and reliability of robots, or novel robot platforms whose features and capabilities may be of particular interest in some application domains.
• Simulation tools combined with advanced Artificial Intelligence techniques that have the potential to speed up the development of general robot skills.

The mechanism of cooperative challenges and the EuroCore ensure that technologies will be brought up to TRL 4-5 during the project.

We are looking for a single (individual) legal entity (not a consortium) that is:
1. a Company of any size registered before the 20th of November 2024;
2. a Research Organisation;
3. an Academia Research Institution registered before the 20th of November 2024.
Proposals should be submitted exclusively by the aforementioned applicants who will delegate a group of researchers/PhD students (that are endorsed by the organisation they belong to/work at) to work in a laboratory.

The entities have to be registered in:
● The Member States of the European Union and its Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT);
or
● Associated Countries to Horizon Europe.

The software and the models generated with their methods should be open-sourced, documented, and accessible in EuroCore.